Practical CMS 1313 Responses

Last post: 4 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: May 12, 08, 8:42 p.m.

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• Nathan_Adams

  We been looking into LightCMS as a means of powering smaller sites that we have developed. All well and good, except for some real pain in the arse restrictions in terms of no PHP, and no way of making your own forms out of their quite limited form builder.

  So I've been hunting for alternatives, and can't find a practical alternative. Hosting isn't an issue. It seems the majority of CMS' are geared towards blogging, and lack something as simple multiple editable regions on a single page, and multiple levels of navigation. I just want to have 5 or so main sections, and then each section has a number of pages. Does anyone know a good CMS that allows that, and has a half-decent interface that we wouldn't be scared letting our clients loose in?

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• acescence

  drupal

  • +1 for your situation– ismith1/2

    fuck a drupal– sublocked2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 8:45 p.m. – Permalink

• random_ink

  we use exponent, quite good, easy to integrate in to designs
  http://www.exponentcms.org/i

  • +100000000k– BattleAxe

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 9:47 p.m. – Permalink

• jysta

  http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/

  • wow SUCKY themes :( it would be nice to start with something reasonably layed out :(– trooper

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 1:48 a.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  expressionengine

  • not free :(– trooper1/2

    yeah seems pricey for business and it's only one license !!!
    
    – jysta2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:23 a.m. – Permalink

• jysta

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/548432…

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 4:27 a.m. – Permalink

• Nathan_Adams

  I think both Drupal and Expression Engine are too complex interface wise for the client. Something like Pixie (which whilst not enough as it currently stands, looks like it will fulfil our needs once it's developed more, going by their roadmap).

  I think I'm going to stick with LightCMS and try some nasty css work to get the forms to play nice. At least with this site. But CushyCMS looks good too, for when the client has no need to manage pages, only the content on existing ones.

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 8:36 a.m. – Permalink

• sherman

  take a look at this:

  http://www.yikesite.com/

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 8:46 a.m. – Permalink

• welded

  Try ModX
  http://modxcms.com/

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 6:59 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  you have to also consider the user base for any of these. if the community is small, you're less likely to find others who can help when you're in a jam or experiencing a strange bug.

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 7:05 p.m. – Permalink

• sintaxera

  i found this the other day. haven't tried it out yet, but it seems suuuper easy.

  http://www.cushycms.com/

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 8:02 p.m. – Permalink

• fowleryo

  i really like textpattern... its more blog centric, but you're able to do some pretty cool stuff with it..

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 8:36 p.m. – Permalink

• CheDouglas

  SilverStripe all the way.. great for the client. drupal is good if you're a developer...

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 8:43 p.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  sNews too for small and lite: http://snewscms.com/

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 08, 3:27 a.m. – Permalink