CMScout - The CMS for Scouting

I decided a while ago that there is no CMS that really caters for the needs of Scout Groups (Which generally are run by largely computer illiterate people) and so decided to create my own CMS that includes all the standard CMS features (Content, Forums, etc.) and some extra features that will be helpful to Scout Groups.

I'd like you to please take a look at it, and give me any comments especially regarding usability. At the moment there is no multi-language support, and there is no easy plugin API (Both these I'm working on for the next major release).

The site is www.cmscout.co.za. I would really appreciate it if you give me any comments or feedback (good or bad) about it.

Oh, and don't look at the code too hard, there is some really dodgy hacks and code in some places, mainly because I learned PHP by writing the basics of the CMS, I'm slowly going through the code base and replacing the major WTFs with more elegant solutions.

I would look at putting more information on the homepage and maybe some images.

The page requires you to scroll down a lot because of the rh columns, you can shorten it a little by just evening them both out.

Quite a brave thing to do! What security strategy did you employ for the PHP given that you are/were a beginner?

I like the colors, and it's great that you have a 'download now' button prominently displayed. However, since that's the first thing i see, I don't exactly know what i'm downloading. a screenshot right about it might be a really nice addition.

Basically, every single input (I hope....) is sanitized for both SQL injections and XSS attacks. Even the inputs that support HTML are passed through a function that removes dangerous html code (tags and attributes). Hope that answers your question

I like the color scheme, though the logo doesn't pop from the header. Very clean feeling. I think I might also try to feature the "poll" a bit more. The right site navigation kind of blends together as one, though there are separate features there.