With its simplicity and ease-of-use, Orbis CMS aims to help you deliver a better, simpler editing interface to your non-technical clients, ultimately increasing client satisfaction. At the same time, this open source project is an attempt to make high-quality, branded content management accessible to all web professionals - without price tags or small print.

Orbis should not be compared to big guns like WordPress and Joomla!. If you're looking for an enterprise-grade CMS, Orbis is not for you. If you are, however, looking for a CMS that allows you to define exactly what your clients can edit, can easily be integrated with your beautiful designs and is extremely easy to use, Orbis might just be the secret ingredient you need for a potent web solution.

Orbis is very adaptable and can be customised very easily. By default, it comes with the following features:

• You define what your clients edit. To include editable data in your design, simply include <?php echo(orbis_data([page name],[section name])); ?> where you'd like the content to appear. You can then define the type of content (text/image) in the CMS to allow your clients to edit the section with a specialized editor.
• Content edited by clients won't mess up your design. Orbis uses WYMeditor, a standards-compliant WYSIWYM editor, to provide users with a graphical interface to editing text content. For image sections, users can use the built-in image editor to define attributes such as the title and alternative text.
• Orbis can easily be branded. Branding can easily be done through the replacement of the site-wide header logo. Furthermore, the whole CMS uses external CSS definitions to style its interface. If you can do CSS, you can do Orbis branding.
• Clients won't be intimidated by an unfriendly interface. The default Orbis theme uses soft, warm colours to make the user feel at home. Along with that, the language throughout the CMS is casual and easy to understand.
• Orbis is easy to use and has nearly no learning curve. With its intuitive interface and clear, informative language, the interface brings power to the hands of the non-technical.
• Orbis is self-hosted. You always have control over your CMS. Self-hosting also cuts out dependency on a central server to be operational.
• Orbis is open source. It's free as in "free speech" and "free beer". You are encouraged to use it in the spirit of open source.

More features are on the roadmap for future development.

Please visit the project website to find out more.