Design Friendly CMS
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- Tavish
Hello
We're working on a small art gallery website and urgently looking for a decent opensource CMS or multiple blog system that will let our client update the site themselves.
Our problem is that we need images to be associated with each post, but placed correctly in the design (and preferably recropped), not just aligned left or right of the text. Also, each page of the site uses a slightly different format, so it needs to support multiple templates.
We've tried Joomla and several others, but they were all much too complex for our purposes (and no, we dont' have the budget to get a custom backend programmed). We are familiar with Smarty but can't find a decent CMS that uses it...
Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks in advance.
- johndiggity0
if you're php-based, try website baker: http://www.websitebaker.org/2/ho…
- Tavish0
Yes, we're using php MySQL... Thanks for the suggestion, looks like a good system, I'll give this a shot.
Cheers!
- jamble0
I'm planning on trying out Expanse on a new site I'm working on at the moment. Don't know if it's 100% the sort of thing you're after but it's dirt cheap and looks a great little CMS.
- myobie0
i have been thinking about writing a cms for designers that would allow an upload of an html file and then identify which parts of the page need the content managed
would there be demand for this?
it would require no server technology on your server, cause it would be a hosted app
im thinking about it
- madirish0
myobie: there are probably 5 app's that do this very thing already out there. off the top i can think of Contribute and Dreamweaver (albeit DW is not exactly this, but very close w/ it's new dynamic doc management ability).
other wise, i would think somthing like super-simple (www.supersimple.org/), Solucija (http://www.solucija.com/home/sn...
or the one i helped author- MiGCMS (http://migcms.madirish.net/). In the last one, display and content are sperated 100% allowing by default, no display code or skin to mod. this might be what you want, but maybe not.a good article to read as well:
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…
- Tavish0
Thansk for the great suggestions, lots of stuff I hadn't heard about before.
myobie: Please go ahead and do that, we need more friendly cms systems, and that sort of thing (like smarty) is really useful when combined with a basic database (edit/delete)
I've used Joomla before, it looks nice but it's way too complex for my clients to update using it. These are often people who have not done anything more elaborate than sending emails in the past.
MiGCMS looks sweet, I'll give it a shot in the future, but for now Website Baker is doing a great job.
Cheers,
- instantok0
i use textpattern a lot
http://www.textpattern.com/as said before expanse might be perfect for this
http://www.expansecms.com/
- ETM0
Try WebEdit:
- madirish0
MiGCMS is awesome!! :)
it is great for many sized projects. good luck man.
- roughitup0
Fits in with your design rather than the other way round. I designed my site statically just so I could get something it fast, it then took me a further 2 days to modify it with the modxcms.