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Am I Missing Something/

11 years ago • updated by 11 years ago • 1

This seems to be a very limited CMS system for producing rather limited web sites, not for producing Metro Apps - which would be rather more dynamic and interactive than some pages of content with pictures and links to youtube or facebook. But maybe I am missing something - there doesn't seem to be any comprehensive description of what ZipApp is actually trying to be or do.

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11 years ago

Hi Justin,

Personally I have found ZipApp very useful for creating Modern Apps on the fly... True you can integrate some static content with text and images, but by utilising the RSS/Youtube/Twitter aspects of ZipApp, you are able to create an app with dynamic tiles that load data as it becomes available via those services.

E.g. this could be used to create a simple blog reader, or in a more complex environment, even a dashboard to show notifications in a Modern Win8 App, if the system providing those notifications publishes them to an RSS feed.

Once you've finished crafting your app on the ZipApp online service (and forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know here!) you can download an entire Visual Studio project of the app in a ZIP file (all JS/CSS/HTML files provided) which you can then modify further to meet your requirements, before publishing it to the Windows 8 App Store.

Hope this adds a bit more colour to what ZipApp is trying to do! :-)

Cheers,

Ben

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