As luck would have it…I am an idiot. I prove that little fact over and over (just about daily really), but this was a case of just not paying attention. You see, while I was building my little CMS app I chose the name simpleCMS without paying attention to who else might be using that name because it fit. Big mistake.

As I got closer to completion I did a bit of searching for other apps with that name. What did I find? Apparently simpleCMS is quite a popular name. So is simplyCMS, and just about any other variation of the name. I shouldn’t really be surprised. Its not like the world of CMS applications is a small one or anything.

I was a bit disappointed at first. Partly at my own stupidity, but also because I thought the name summed up my little app perfectly. So I began the gut-wrenching process of finding a new name that summed up what I was trying to build.

After several days of hunting and swearing the word novella popped into my head.
Easy to remember? Check.
Easy to spell? Check.
At least tangentially related? Check.

A novella is a book that is shorter than a novel and longer than a short story. As such they are not a complex as a full sized novel. It works as a nice parallel to my app when it is compared to the big daddies like wordpress and the like. Those apps do more, but are more complex and therefore a bit harder to wrap your head around.

So there you have it…

With that said, I hope to release novella in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned!