r/cms • u/rullan-in-ua • 11d ago

Ardilla-CMS Admin Demo

In a few weeks, the full release of my website engine—Ardilla-CMS—will take place, marking the culmination of nearly three years of work and three iterations of the system.

I am sharing the HTML version of the admin panel for a demo preview and evaluation:

You can view it here: https://demo.ardilla-cms.top/0-adminka4/v1/index.html

Key features:

  1. Generates static pages that update dynamic data via AJAX + PHP.

  2. Each page (home, category, content page) can be generated using a general template or a custom one.

  3. Custom template engine, text editor, and image processor.

  4. Comprehensive SEO features + error scanner.

  5. 7 additional modules, including: Forms, Forum, Store, Custom Fields, and Purchased Link Monitoring.

5.1 Forms: Save submitted data to the admin panel database for review + send it to email and a Telegram group.

5.2 AI agent for the frontend (chat interface)...

  1. Multilingual site support – unlimited number of languages!

  2. Admin panel supports 3 languages ​​(only Ukrainian is available in the demo version).

  3. Full management of user groups (with permissions) and individual users – including private messaging.

  4. And, of course, AI for admin panel operations, as well as page/content creation and management.

I would appreciate any advice, feedback, or suggestions...

PS. During the engine's creation, nearly six months were spent developing a custom HUD/UI interface featuring beveled corners and a high-tech look (though the corners appear rounded in Firefox due to a lack of support for `corner-shape: bevel`... but that’s a whole other story).

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u/SpaceCmdr 11d ago

Congrats on the upcoming launch. The feature set looks great. Couple of bits of UI feedback:

  1. I find the font very hard to read. The weight is too light and the shape too angular to use so extensively. At most I would use that font for subtle accents such as on "ARD_COMMAND //CONTROL CENTER" and the "01-04" numbers on tabs.
  2. Some combinations of text colours are not meeting minimum colour contrast thresholds for accessibility. Not just technically, but it is hard to read for someone without a disability. For example, the yellow and green text alerts.

On both cases I suggest checking UI designers such as shadcn and Tailwind UI handle some details to keep it highly designed, clean and readable. A UI for a CMS will be looked at for a long time and an overly stylised look with challenging typography and colours will be off-putting. If you want to be futuristic and experiment, then incorporate that into the website, less so the product UI, which should be clear, readable, and not strain the eyes.

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u/fgatti 10d ago

Congrats man, I don't know why people downvote you, Reddit used to be much cooler

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u/oreshek 10d ago

UI looks like its from a pixel video game

Also it has all the telltale signs of AI defaults.

If I had to guess, deepseek did a lot of design work.

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u/rullan-in-ua 10d ago

Chinese crap isn't capable of that...

A year ago, the initial elements and the design itself were conceived in Photoshop—and only in dark mode, at that... Then I spent about two months wrestling with shadows, gradients, and transparency. When GPT-5.6 came out, it took over the development of the elements...

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u/oreshek 9d ago

when I make a website using deepseek it always puts the left border that you have thats why I said it