CMS on a MAC
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- Blofeldt
Anyone know of a good web based CMS that works on an Apple Mac?
- tomkat0
??
you said web based.. why shouldn't it work on mac?
- MR_T0
is your back-end on a mac?
oo-er!
- Blofeldt0
Because i've got a really good web based one, but it's designed to run on a PC and IE.
- thosethat0
i can't help you...
i have no idea what you're talking about...
- Blofeldt0
The site will be made on a PC. Tha doesn't matter. The client uses MAC's in their office, and therefore need a CMS that will run on them.
- Blofeldt0
A web based WYSIWYG Content Management System so the client can change copy and add pictures. That will work on an Apple Macintosh.
- tomkat0
Aah... now i get it..
but who builds stuff like that? Local backend only for pc..? sounds not logical to me..
- MR_T0
The one thing you havn't said it was OS are they running.
If they are running OSX I am sure you can find a PHP based one somewhere.
- MR_T0
Didnt really make that clear..The most importnat thing is what platform is the site being hosted on?
- Blofeldt0
Hmmm, I don't know what OS. I have asked but they're a bunch of marketing types who don't know, and nobody's got back to me yet.
It'll be hosted on a Windows platform.
- MR_T0
If it's hosted on a window platform..then you can either build or use an 'off the shelf' CMS for that. Most upates (depending on the CMS and how it works) will be done through a browser anyway..making it platform independent.
What worries me is that those 'marketing types' been chucking around the wrod CMS and not really understanding what it means?
Are you sure a CMS is what they are after?
- Blofeldt0
Yes. We've done their sites for years and they've used our WYSIWYG CMS on a PC. But they use MAC's and want to use a CMS on them. Which is fair enough.
Yes, all they do with it is update the content. It's for a show and the sponsors and details cahnge all the time so it's better if they can do it themselves. We won't build a bespoke CMS them because it's too expensive.
Macromedia Contibute looks good.
- ribit0
Any decent CMS should be setup to work with any modern standards-compliant browser (on Windows, Mac whatever).
Some we're looking at...
or a bespoke PHP systems might be best for you?
- Blofeldt0
Cheers Ribit. Contribute uses .MAC accounts. Still a bit hazy as to why.
- ribit0
Contribute seems fairly limited compared to full-on systems for total site management... There's a lot of systems available, from allowing clients to update bits of a manually created site, through to systems that treat the entire site as a database with total interlinking of all objects (authors, stories, calendar items, discussions, search, adserving, user and editorial team access control etc)
- Blofeldt0
yeah, but bollocks to all that. I don't want to give them much control because they've got fuck all idea how to save an image properly and change text, let alone anything else.
- ribit0
If you are doing a site that needs more than Contribute can handle, you've got to weigh up taking an off the shelf system with all the pre-built modules (and customize it to suit your site) or to build it from scratch using PHP and open source code...
We're trying to decide which system to use (or build) for our online magazine: http://www.cardesignnews.com
Any system we choose will still need a lot of customization to suit our magazine layout, features, photo galleries, news archiving etc...
Still looking for options if anyone has ideas...
- ribit0
Most CMS systems allow you to define a range of user levels (administrator, senior ediotr, junior ediotr, contributor, user, etc) so you can give each access only to certain parts of the site or parts of the page. An editor can approve a page, schedule it to go live, a contributor can only access parts of a page and submit it for approval etc.
Theres also a lot of free CMS systems that offer all of this, such as Movable Type.