After many months in development, and many more in private beta, I can finally announce the first public release of Wheelhouse CMS is now available for purchase!

I began developing Wheelhouse CMS out of a long-standing frustration with existing content management platforms. In most cases, CMSs today tend to be painful to build web sites in, or simply not something I'd feel good about delivering to my clients (due to poor usability, security, etc.)

Wheelhouse CMS aims to do better.

Wheelhouse is built on top of Ruby on Rails 3.1 and takes full advantage of great new features such as the asset pipeline. Haml (for templates) and Sass (for CSS) are also fully supported as well as the Compass extensions for Sass.

Wheelhouse content fields enable you to create templates that give your clients full control, but won't fall apart if they make a mistake while editing. The easy-to-use admin area and editor will mean your clients won't have any troubles managing their content.

These clients are already happily using Wheelhouse CMS to manage their sites.

Check out the Demo Site to try out Wheelhouse CMS for yourself today!

Things have been a little quiet around here lately but with good reason. I've been hard at work preparing for the first major release of Wheelhouse CMS, and can confidently say that version 1.0 will finally be available later this week.

In the mean time, you can check out the new Wheelhouse CMS Demo Site for a sneak peak.