I’ve sorta-officially started work in my free-time on a Content Management System (to rule them all). I’m way too lazy to write a complicated middle-layer, so my aim is this: to create a CMS with as small a code-base as possible, that can run a mid-market website. Basically, I’m trying to write a CMS that’s easy to work in from a developer’s perspective, easy to use from a content manager’s perspective, and that a sysadmin can let loose with some serious traffic.

In the spirit of the occasion, here’s a script I wrote that lets you instantly preview the image you select in a “Browse…” file upload box, before uploading it to the server i.e. to overwrite the image that is already there. It’s completely client-side Javascript. For now it’s IE and Firefox in Windows only due to security restrictions. Try it out, and start the countdown to my CMS being finished. You’d probably better start at a thousand

Image Upload Preview v0.1