BlackFish

BlackFish is a fast, highly secure, content management system developed by CEV for organizations focused on ocean science. The open-source web application employs a modular architecture that can be tailored to individual client needs. 

BlackFish utilizes the Foundation and Grails frameworks. Foundation enables a mobile-first responsive UI. Grails enables a speedy, service-oriented architecture that is easily extended to accommodate different user interfaces by providing various APIs.

The BlackFish permission system allows the creation of roles (user groups) that can be assigned distinct permissions (for example, Administrator, Page Author, Follower, etc.). It also allows users to quickly and easily view and edit a site from any device, as well as modify the site without any knowledge of HTML or scripting languages.

BlackFish Features

• All BlackFish applications sport CEV’s award winning design chops
• All application content can be geo-referenced on a Google map or 3D globe and is searchable 
• BlackFish makes it easy to set up one-click social media profile join buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Instagram, a real-time Twitter feed on the homepage, and counters for Facebook Likes and Twitter Follows
• The BlackFish CMS has an integrated ‘help’ feature that has been implemented on every page of the Administrator tools to support the content manager who needs help quickly
• Draft pages can be password protected until the moderator chooses to make the page “live”