Alternative CMSes to look at…

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:59:44 +0000

There’s in interesting article over at vitamin by Paul Boag entitled The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS. Of course these costs must be allowed for in any serious CMS implementation strategy. Not much emphasis is given to the very real need for any publication content managed by a person or to be edited. Just like in the good old world of print. Just because the web allows us to publish instantly – it doesn’t mean it’s necessary a good idea to do so. There’s a good article about the need for editors over at ALA (I think I’ve mentioned before).

Anyway down in the comments there’s the obligatory Drupal big-up along with mention of a couple of a couple of other options. I’m going to keep MODx in my back pocket. I like the look of it…

Which CMS?

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:36:04 +0000

Right now trying to develop a web magazine. Also bearing in mind the need to be able to bash out other smaller websites with minimum hassle. Solution should allow Mac OS X and web based editing.

Drupal is proving to be a pain in my backside – at version 6.x. Too many stumbling blocks. Excuse the pun*. TinyMCE doesn’t want too play. Will continue the study – but will start running another test install of Drupal 5.x.

WordPress – not sure if I’ll be pushing it too hard for the magazine site

RapidWeaver – definitely not for the magazine site – but could be a goer for the smaller sites – if we can get it to work with includes and if the WebYep CMS plugin for RapidWeaver does what it says on the tin…

*Drupal is a modular CMS built on the priciple of “Blocks”. The modules I’ve tried so far have not been… cooperative.

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Alternative CMSes to look at…

Which CMS?