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	Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog (vanillaextract.me)
	12 points by maxmzd_ 4335 days ago

7 comments

heyalexej 4334 days ago

Nice project. A couple things I noticed: You're leaking emails and IP addresses of commenters in your source code. There are plenty of dead pages[1] in the index which you could redirect to the home page or just disallow Google to index either via robots.txt or Google Webmaster Tools.

Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3At...

maxmzd_ 4334 days ago

Hey, thanks for checking it out!

Where are you seeing the emails and IP addresses of the commenters?

eswat 4334 days ago

Pretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it.

Two problems I noticed so far:

1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X)

2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working

maxmzd_ 4334 days ago

Thanks!

Did you happen to resize your browser? I notice that some things get janky because of the waypoints after resize. Need to work on that.

eswat 4334 days ago

I believe I was looking at it full-res at the time - 1920 x 1200 - but resized after and noticed I could see the photos fine when I resized smaller.

msurguy 4335 days ago

Very cool idea for the fashion bloggers. You might even sell this CMS (per client basis) or if you gather a team of web developers - become an agency working with fashion bloggers.

There is some potentially good money in this.

maxmzd_ 4335 days ago

Yeah, lots of opportunity here for sure. One thing I've been getting good feedback on from some fashion bloggers is the "shop the look" feature on each photo. Affiliate links is how many fashion bloggers monetize.

vsergiu 4334 days ago

Have you used a plugin to do that or is it custom? Since you can make a plugin out of that and sell it

maxmzd_ 4334 days ago

I wrote custom Backbone.js views and subviews to handle the shop tags. But you're right, this would be an awesome WordPress plugin. The affiliate network RewardStyle has something similar, but it's lacking a few things, which is why I wrote my own.

JustinBrown 4334 days ago

Site looks great, but do you have any peeks into the actual CMS? Would love to see!

maxmzd_ 4334 days ago

Thanks! And not yet, but I'm working on a blog post to show it off a bit more.

sathvikl 4335 days ago

very very cool ! Can you point to some links that you used to learn node, backbone.. what do you use for layout design ?

maxmzd_ 4335 days ago

Thanks!

I learned Node.js by watch some of Pedro Teixeira's screencasts: http://nodetuts.com/

I'm using Express.js as the backend framework and read some tutorials on that. Can't remember which ones.

I learned Backbone.js by reading the docs: http://backbonejs.org/ along with reading source code of projects I was familiar with.

This best practices article came in handy too: http://geeks.bizzabo.com/post/83917692143/7-battle-tested-ba...

For layout design, I tend to sketch my UX ideas on paper. For this site, since it's so minimal, I designed straight in the browser using HTML / CSS (SASS)

vsergiu 4335 days ago

Is it open source?

maxmzd_ 4335 days ago

No, I wrote it solely for the purpose of this blog, but I wouldn't mind open sourcing it after I add a couple more things to the admin panel (if there's interest).

vsergiu 4335 days ago

I think there is interest :). Btw how do we access the admin?

maxmzd_ 4335 days ago

Cool, good to hear! I will push towards it. Admin panel is located at a hidden URL right now. There are no user accounts yet, just a single, protected resource with a private key. That's one of the things I need to add.

narzero 4333 days ago

looks amazing!