CMS for retards
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- johndiggity0
check out expression engine: http://www.pmachine.com
- lw-d0
Finding my feet in the programming world, I have used joomla for about 18 months, I do get it 100% how I want it.
I own a web company and I would like to offer something like:
mycompany-CMS, a lot of web design companies are selling their CMS, I would like to buy a solutions that I could sell, obviousl, my clients would mainly be paying for the design, layout etc. Packaging the CMS as my own will just be a marketing idea. Clients like CMS when they are packaged in a wooly coat.... or something like that.
- lw-d0
I like the sound of http://www.pmachine.com
If you purchase a commercial license, is that for one domain name?
Thanks
- fifty500
That ExpressionEngine looks pretty decent. only 250 for the commercial license, not bad at all! Have you used it before?
The thing is that this client has a friggin' HUGE site and it's tables-based. I'mm wondering how long it would take to install EE and how easy it would be to get it running just like their old site.
- johndiggity0
my friend just started working for a cms firm and they were actually considering buying the company, so that's a pretty good endorsement.
i personally have not used it, but i can get you some moe specific feedback if you need it.
the trial is free though.
- ldww0
oh ok, i did not realzie you could resell os. i thought the whole premise of it was that people were doing it for free "for the community".
is there a working demo is Plone? i can not seem to find one on the site.
- fifty500
Thanks johndiggity. could you email me the details when you find out? I need to know how much work it would be to do this so it's kind of important that I find out if I have to re-code the site, or if I will be building a new one from scratch and moving over all the content.
- lw-d0
I don't think you can resell OS CMS' as your own... that would be crazy. Wouldn't it?
- ldww0
thats what i thought too bro.
ok this demo for plone is... well. what the hell is it? this is a cms? how do you manage content?
also i was very unimpressed with the expression engine demo.
- madirish0
you would not re-sell the untouched, default version of it, no. certainly not. you would/could though create a version of it that is customized and compiled as a unique instance of the OS version. this would then be augmented w/ your services to run, install, customize more, ect. it would all be under the acknowledged guise to the recipient/client that this was the case. you would then leverage the existing dev pool and modules of that technology to better or enhance the offering you had and donate back to the community any new modules/development strides you/ your group made. that is, if you are not a leach/lurker but actually part of that OS community.
at least this is how i have done this and all the agencies i work with do.
- madirish0
ldww- you must create a new user account.from there it is yours to exploit to your hearts content. it is wiped every 24 hrs @ 00 GMT
- ldww0
lw-d, let me know what you think of plone and typo3 when you install them.
- lw-d0
You installed the EE demo quick, I was put off by the fact that they didn't have an online demo.
What didn't you like then, also, what are you using at the moment?
"ok this demo for plone is... well. what the hell is it"
Yeah, it weird.
- vwsung18t0
i literally just started using EE, (i mean i just installed it on my server and came across this thread) the free core one, which i think is pretty good. i'm actually considering buying the personal one for myself. it's really easy to use and modify, if i can make it work.
- ldww0
this is the EE demo (i think)
http://www.pmachine.com/cp_demo/…i was just playing with the joomba demo, and its the best so far. but i still would never use it :)
- lw-d0
I know its a bit of a buzz word at the moment but there has got to be some merit in having an Ajax based admin console for editing content.
I wish I could hand around this thread a little longer, I will leave you with this Ajax CMS that I tried last week, looks good:
username & passowrd: demo
- MLP0
i used contribute while i was an AI for this journalism class. i had the shell set up for each student's story page so they could insert images with my constraints and format their text with my CSS. it would create a new directory with their username to hold the pages and their images.
- ldww0
here are some more cms from my bookmarks:
http://symphony21.com/
http://www.solucija.com/
http://modxcms.com/
http://mysource.squiz.net/home
http://railfrog.com/
http://www.mamboserver.com/index…
- determinedmoth0
joomla seems pretty hardcore. i think you'd be better off training someone with dreamweaver.