CMS: flexibility
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- freitag
Oh, how many threads there are on this topic.
Yet,
i wish to ask you:
What would you consider the most flexible CMS out there?Which one is your current darling?
Thanks for all tips, leads, hints etc.
- freitag0
i guess i'd want to steer clear from the obvious: Drupal vs. Joomla
http://www.topnotchthemes.com/bl…
conclusion:
- Use Joomla if you want to get nice looking site up quickly and can deal with a slower system, rigid content categorization and limited design/configuration options.
- Use Drupal if you want high performance, scalability, good content management and significant design flexibility. But, be prepared to spend a lot of time/money to get the site to look professional.
- TheBlueOne0
What do you mean by "flexible" exactly?
As for designing around I lean towards sNews and Textpattern. The first because it's really really user friendly to the designer, and if you're not afraid of digging through some php you can pull out nearly all the functionality in some larger cms systems. Textpattern because it's also pretty flexible to work into your designs, and a much more complete plugin system than sNews without getting into the php...
For more flexible in terms of functionality versus design than I'd go with ExpressionEngine.
That's my two cents
- freitag0
thanks for your 2 cent, TBO. Appreciated.
- freitag0
i am quite familiar with Textpattern, used it many times. Just wondering if anything else was out there. The plugin repository of textpattern is rather ill supported. kind of all over the place.
- Amicus0
TBO - are you saying that Expression Engine is hard to design for?
- possibly that it's more difficult to design around than Textpatter or sNews?Point5
- Yeah. It's not THAT hard, but I find snews and textpattern far easier. But EE is great as well...TheBlueOne
- mikotondria30
Ive said it before, and I'll say it again :)
www.madebyfrog.com
Its so simple, it's almost too flexible, there arent many plugins - you can write them really easily *IF* you know your way round php.
I would say for folks that would honestly split their talentage twixt hardcoding, design and markup, its a great framework to leverage a site together.
- ukit0
Wordpress has by the nicest admin UI and by far the largest community of developers/ plugins etc. For a small content based site it's probably the best option to get up and running quickly
Expression Engine gives you more flexibility and also has a respectable dev community behind it. With Expression Engine it's a bit easier to build exactly the site you want, but it will take a fair amount of work and front end dev knowledge.
At the end of the day, you can build a good site on any of these platforms, I've yet to run into a case where people bump up against a wall of needing to do something that wasn't possible.
- adamrobertson0
Concrete5 is also very nice.
- forcetwelve0
havn't used it but looks good - and have mates that use it.
- I've tried it and it gives me fitsTheBlueOne
- ah yeh, me too - tried it for a huge project. Rather impenetrable and obtuse.mikotondria3
- imnotaplumber0
Expression Engine is really flexible, easy to design the front end however you want. If you can't understand Expression Engine you shouldn't be making websites. Expression Engine is a designers CMS.
- once you understand Expression Engine you won't want to use Wordpress again.imnotaplumber
- Agreed. Had to get off Drupal because too many clients complained. I'm diggin' EEMrNibs
- slappy0
I have been using Perch a bit lately. So far the clients love the simplicity. Probably the easiest CMS I have worked with becuase you dont skin the CMS, you CMS the skin. Its perfect for small sites with simple requirements.
- FallowDeer0
im keen on using EE, but for every website I do, small or big im told to do it in wordpress, its good but is it ment to handle massive 100+ page websites etc...
- moth0
I'm also running with Concrete5 at the moment.
Same approach as Perch by the sounds of it. You CMS the skin.
- comicsans0
EE lets you do anything you want and has a good security track record, excellent documentation and world class support. Nothing else comes close but if you're a cheapskate and prepared to work hard to learn it, then MODx is designer friendly.
- you need to work hard to learn it, but it's designer friendly.... seems a little like an oxymoron.Amicus
- You don't need to work hard to learn, once you figure out how to save your templates as flat filesimnotaplumber
- Very little of MODX is documented, but when you figure it out you can do pretty much anything you want.comicsans
- freitag0
Alrighty then... Expression Engine is what I will check.
- must_dash0
I'd avoid wordpress
- bort0
I finally got around to installing EE. I've got to admit, after only an hour of noodling around in the admin area I really like what I see. The templating system reminds me of Textpattern. I love how flexible the custom fields are too.
- forcetwelve0
can someone tell me what are the major advantages of EE compared to WP? im interested if it's easier to implement.
- me too, wp is easy but for larger websites with lots of pages I dont see it workingFallowDeer
- jysta0
Im just about to try MODx for a 200 page online catalogue that needs to be live in a couple of days, I'll let you know how it goes :-O
- http://modxcms.com/jysta
- i like the look of thatmikotondria3