CMS: Here we go again!
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- XYZ0
I have used Modx on some past jobs and it is fantastic, it's got the worst online documentation in the world but their support forum is superb.
If you want to run a magazine style site I would not use Modx as you need a plug in called: Ditto and found it a bit of a pain to work with, but they could have changed as I have not worked with it for some time.
Drupal is really good as well but hard to learn, if you want see the best CMS solutions out there then why not check out: http://opensourcecms.com/
Good luck!
- poolio0
Wordpress works well for me.. pretty easy to customise and the designer has a lot of control... easy install, easy config etc. plus heaps of plugins to choose from.
But I hear other designers talk alot about Expression Engine.. they say its good, but I haven't tried it yet myself.
Big projects are usually built from the ground up (100% custom).
- airey0
yeah, i don't think the trend to create a whole new cms around a project is the best option anymore. there's so many resources now, especially with the renewed interest in very broad and user-generated content solutions like wordpress it seems like it's an extra expense and not to mention pain in the arse to reinvent the wheel.
often when companies said they were creating the CMS from the ground up it was really simply using the dotnet or dotnetnuke packages or crap like joomla / mambo.
saying that, certainly developers using ruby on rails now will be worth looking at though as brief specific solutions become simple bolt-on mods with that language. i'm pretty excited by the options ruby introduces.
fuck i need to get a life. back to solitaire for me...
- yep I agree - I didn't clarify above but I ment 'big projects' as custom ecommerce sitespoolio
- janne760
i see expression engine is today's hype. i may give it a spin.
i fucking hate web design these days, but print work has died here a few years ago.
(client: "well..the printshop lays out our own brochures, blahblah.." GOD I HATE THIS REGION/COUNTRY/WHATEVER..)
- it's not your region alone. budgets keep dropping but expectations don't. fuckers.airey
- you just need to treat them like shit. haha. i got really angry with a client but they kept coming back haha..janne76
- i must be a fresh pile of damping shit and they are the flies...janne76
- they only take and i only shrink and dry out into a miserable nothing..janne76
- rounce0
dotNet != the same fucking ball park as DotNetNuke.
- airey0
rounce:
the difference is that ditnet is microsoft owned and you have to pay license fees, notnetnuke is an opensource of it which means less cost and more user-generated content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot…
but yes, it's the same ballpark. in a similar way, joomla came from mambo - the change coming from the fact that the license owners of mambo became money hungry schmucks.
- rounce0
airey:
.Net (dotNet) is a free - and now open source - framework from MS for building windows and server side applications.DotNetNuke is a web application programming framework built on dotNet that is meant to be used in much the same manner as ModX to quickly build custom CMS systems.
Gonk.
- janne760
i always tend to creep away out of threads when i read about microsoft.
only once i did something asp related, but never again, pls.
- airey0
haha. same. about 8 yrs ago had to work with an asp developer. downloaded the database to my mac and fucked it. asp and mac didn't play well then. no idea about it nwo.
- _rootlock0
Modx => website framework/cms
Hands down the best. Will start to see alot more people using this framework. Joomla killer.for web applications
cakephp => web application framework.
- welded0
CakePHP is miserable. It's pretty slow at what it does, though what it does out of the box is otherwise easy to grok, but heaven help you if you need to do anything that doesn't have a handy, one-line function. And don't get me started on the 'documentation'...
- _rootlock0
if you have a solid understanding of OOP then cake is amazing. the documentation is crap though.
- FallowDeer0
anyone here used that ExpressionEngine and use the Commerce area of the site?
as if its half decent I might give it a go over wordpress
- amullins0
eZ Publish (www.ez.no) : robust (has a longer learning curve)
Symphony (www.21degrees.com.au/products/s... : easy to use (it you know xsl) and easy to extend but should probably be reserved for smaller projects- www.21degrees.com.au…...amullins
- damnitt to hell- www.21degrees.com.au… find it from there
amullins
- Dancer0
I have just had a meeting with a guy who uses Expression Engine. A new version is about to be released which apparently is going to be the mutts nuts.
He absolutely swears by it saying that once you use it you will never go back, he even builds mini 3 page sites using it.
He also mentioned about the cost $120 per licence. This means you are not buying an out of the box solution but a CMS that has excellent support and a vast network of developers working hard to answer all you questions.
- yeah just been reading about 2.0 version which is out soon. would you say EE is more for front end peeps?FallowDeer
- I am hoping :/Dancer
- janne760
For the man in Ludwigsburg, Germany:
- Marcelom0
Indexhibit?