I would like for me to be able to build at least one template, but possibly more, for each site.
This way my editors can choose the type of layout they need for a new page and can easily add new pages to the site.
These templates would be ones I create and just name template.html or something and already have all the areas setup to be editable, they would just insert the content into the areas available to them.

The boxes are always the same size. And to get through it the user has to scroll up and down. Instead you should allow the textarea to be resizable using the lined symbol in the bottom left corner, like on many operating systems.

This comment box that I am typing into allows me to adjust the size of the textarea, your main site should have this basic feature aswell.

I know there is a suggestion/planned upgrade to disable the automatic welcome emails that get sent out to clients. This would enable us to send our own welcome mails but what about just making the welcome editable in terms of content and ability to add some simple branding.......or go the whole hog and allow us to paste the source html for a fully branded mail...

We should be able to define one or more editable class names and then state how they will be treated by Cushy. For instance, lets say our main text areas are already having a class name of "maintext" we should be able to set up "maintext" as a html/plain whatever editable area so we don't need to append CushyCMS to the class name and make the code messy.

Sort of runs along side the images are uploaded in the wrong place thing but I think it would be really useful if there was an option to completely overwrite the target image when a new one is uploaded, this means that any page using the same image will automatically be updated also, without editing the html of the other page.

i would like to add my clients as editors and have them invoiced each month (on their credit card). then i'd like to receive money each month for each client. ie:

editor pays $10 per month
designer gets paid $5 per month of this

the kickbacks could accrue in the designers account until they decide to "cash out" via pay pal.

designers are hurting for residual income ;)

When you are in WYSIWYG mode in CushyCMS, and you press enter to create a new paragraph, CushyCMS defaults to a new breaking space <br/> instead of a new paragraph <p></p>.

In Dreamweaver, for example, if you press enter in WYSIWYG mode, you create a new paragraph <p> and when you hold down SHIFT + ENTER you create a new line/breaking space <br>.

So I don't understand why CushyCMS does this as sometimes it invalidates ones code due to the use of the slashes <br/> and would have expected it to follow the standard word, dreamweaver conventions etc.

As good as CushyCMS this, the lack of proper paragraph tags, for me, lets it down. Perhaps this is something you could at least provide the option for?