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The not so big CMS thread

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  • lechlech ✭
    I was actually taking a second look at textpattern again, and I think I'll have a closer look in the coming weeks with it. The one thing that really bugs the hell out of me with it is it's backend, it just seems so flakey. But that's just me being superficial I guess, I just installed it locally to mess around with to see what I can shape it into before I give it a serious mark.
  • KosmoKosmo
    It's very sturdy, more so than many other that I have used. Only thing that doesn't really hit me is that it looks like something from windows 3.11 or so, personally my taste is more in the wordpress area.
  • ADMADM
    sNews looks really good.. I like the simplicity of it.
  • aloiciousaloicious
    edited February 2006
    [ot]
    Oh well I used sNews and put up a site for me lassie in about... however long it takes to have three coffees and a tea. She can write shizzle and I used some phpFlickr goodies at the top. It's not awesome and I haven't even checked IE yet.

    When it came down to it I realised I didn't need all the crud that went with other blogs/cms's.

    No mess, no fess.

    PS. If you're interested: http://narnie.org
    [/ot]
  • DENiALDENiAL
    Yeah snews 2 has been released, It's pretty nice. Simple, and gets the job done. The 2.0 version allows php coding inside your news post.
  • 3stripe3stripe ✭✭
    edited March 2006
    Having problems getting sNews to run (need php 4.3)... Meanwhile, Joomla is looking good, there are a lot of options/panels/plugins/pages but it as some good features, and the admin panel looks professional to boot. Some of the nice features in Joomla: an faq editor that lets you add individual q/a's, and re-order them; menu editors to change the order of items in main or sub menus - useful stuff for more complicated sites...
  • KosmoKosmo
    Joomla aka. Mambo was my first pick on the project that I made, but because it still uses so much tables, I decided to go with something that was more technically advanced but not as feature rich. But if I would have to choose something now, I would definedly go with Limbo, another Mambo offshoot, it is definedly the most attractive one of the three.
  • RussMckendrickRussMckendrick
    I think MooFlex is going to be worth keeping an eye on.
  • 3stripe3stripe ✭✭
    I need something that's out right now and stable.... MooFlex might be a winner in 12 months time... tagging looks interesting...
  • 3stripe3stripe ✭✭
    edited May 2006
    Just found a new one.... http://radiantcms.org/ .... it smells of Web 2.0, but maybe not in an all bad way? */me opens can of worms* Kosmo - it's running on Ruby as well ;)
  • BergamotBergamot
    "Since Radiant has not been officially released, it is currently available only through Subversion:" God, where have I heard that before...
  • SavoryMediaSavoryMedia
    I've tried everything from Mambo/Joomla to ezPublish (which was NOT ez by any means) and I've pared down all my web development to WordPress and Drupal. Also, Drupal 4.7 was released just a few days ago and has some AMAZING new features, not the least of which is "free-tagging".

    Now, if only Vanilla v1 was ready for release....*whistles*

    *looks around*

    *runs screaming with Mark in hot pursuit*

    ;)
  • nathannathan
    I wouldn't push it at the moment.

    Drupal 4.7 rocks. I have been using it on a production site for about 4 months now (I previously used HEAD, but those features were there long ago) and it is really nice.
  • KosmoKosmo
    I read about Radiant, it's creating somewhat a stir in the Ruby community and I can feel it. But there is this nagging thing in the back of my head, when I wrote the framework is the new cms I made up my mind that there should be some sort of CMS that is a framework, handles the unnecessary fiddling, but gives me enough tools to create something neat fast, well RoR did that, but since I have took up Django, I really think that there is no need for any premade CMS' since Django has a generated admin interface and it let's you do your own domain modelling, you have enough flexibility to do your basic website in a jiffy. Granted, Django is nowhere near as powerful as RoR, I have done some crazy stuff with RoR lately, but Django gives you a basic set of data manipulation tools that could whip up a site in a day. That being said, I consider typo and Radiant as projects I can learn more about how to do things, but I wouldn't use them myself. I would suggest that everyone who is in dire need of a CMS, pick up django and do the tutorial in their site, you'll catch up fast and it is piss easy to do simple things and as you are doing them, you learn some python to do your complex things, I guarantee that after a week, you'll master the snake and wrangle you some websites.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Drupal 4.7 rocks.

    Apparently yes, The Onion is using it.
  • SavoryMediaSavoryMedia
    Drupal 4.7 rocks.

    Apparently yes, The Onion is using it.
    They've been using it (actually, the HEAD (cvs) version) for a while now. They rolled out the redesign months ago.

    And I've been using HEAD on a prototype site I'm working on (just upgraded everything to 4.7 final on Tuesday) and the new features do, indeed, rock. :)
  • SavoryMediaSavoryMedia
    I would suggest that everyone who is in dire need of a CMS, pick up django and do the tutorial in their site, you'll catch up fast and it is piss easy to do simple things and as you are doing them, you learn some python to do your complex things, I guarantee that after a week, you'll master the snake and wrangle you some websites.
    But...will Django work on Dreamhost?

    Besides, for the time being, I don't have the time nor inclination to learn a whole new system. I've got to get this prototype ready for my partner to show it to VCs...soon. *grin*
  • HoryHory
    edited May 2006
    LucidCMS is the best lite CMS that I know of. But be sure to try one of the latest RC of 2.0 (eg. here ) rather than the old 1.0 version. I haven't actually tried Radiant, but LucidCMS seems similar to it (and is actually older).
  • KosmoKosmo
    But...will Django work on Dreamhost?

    Yes, yes it will.. actually Dreamhost is in the Django-friendly-server list.
    And for the record, there are not many hosts that can't or won't offer a mod_python, it just might cost you a dime extra.

    Besides, for the time being, I don't have the time nor inclination to learn a whole new system.

    If you don't have time to walk through a 20min Django tutorial you must really be swamped, granted, making the site again would take few hours extra, but all in all, I still would suggest that you take a gander, if not to use on your current project, but maybe in the next one.
  • 3stripe3stripe ✭✭
    edited May 2006
    Kosmo-mo-mo.... this Django thing looks interesting, but there's no way I could do anything with it in a day! Well except get pissed off. You really think I could do something with it in a week!? Are there any tuts on building elements of a cms with it? Or have you done one already? You talked of a Vanilla-community stab at building one... any plans for this still? {like this idea}
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