Orchard!

The keynote was kind of meh but now I’m in Deconstructing Orchard:  Build, Customize, Extend, Ship.  I’ve had bad experiences with CMS’s in the past but Bradley Millington convinced me at Open Source Fest that Orchard was worth taking a look at so here we go…

…time passes…

So far it doesn’t look bad at all.  Lots of customization features with modules and plenty of  common problems already solved within the gallery.  Lots of hooks for extensibility…

The shape tracing feature is really slick.  Sort of like firebug just for Orchard.  You can trace through the UI and ultimately create and edit a file to override the default file for the section you’re interested in.  Apparently there is also some form of theme inheritance to allow customization to fall back through several levels.

Good stuff, I’ll definitely be checking it out.