CMS for retards
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- PuFFi0
My preference goes for typo3, but it's just that you need a lot of time to get used to it. It's so complicated.
This is why I'd recommend joomla, or the same kind, http://www.limbo-cms.com that can run with sqlite.
- madirish0
They are only human and do not know how to use GoLive or Dreamweaver, nor should they have to learn.
fifty50
(Mar 21 06, 08:32)fifty, i just re-read this and i really want to stress that a CMS will not magically make the clients life easier or releave them of considerations or tasks. on the contrary, a CMS actually will give them more to complete and will absolutly require training at some level to use it effectively. they trade off to this though, is empowering the client to control any content the CMS drives themselves w/o the need for code or scripting language knowledge.
i cannot stress enough (and i have been through this countless times) that really determining the clients' needs and motives, along with understanding "what" a CMS is really all about is probably 99% of how successful the results will be. seems as though several here are kind of short of that front and technology might be the driving force in "the best solution", rather than needs.
- determinedmoth0
joomla seems pretty hardcore. i think you'd be better off training someone with dreamweaver.
- ldww0
lw-d, let me know what you think of plone and typo3 when you install them.
- lw-d0
I personally think that contribute is a little bit of light weight compared to a CMS. First of, you need to physically install contribute on people machine. For the companies that I work for, they don't want to get their hands dirty with the software. With a CMS they just login to the sites frontend and edit away.
- 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.
- imakedesign0
there are loads of threads about this, search for CMS
- lw-d0
- lw-d0
I think joomla is pretty good, its the only one I have used extensively, along with mambo in the day.
I am looking for other OS CMS' that can output tableless designs that validate.
I am going to try plone and typo3 today.
Thanks.
- PuFFi0
If you have time and a lot of courage http://www.typo3.org
there are some to try http://www.opensourcecms.com
the easiest way is http://www.joomla.org
- ldww0
that ajax one is ok.
i do not think its completly nessecary to have a ajax admin thou, i mean what would it really hurt to refresh the page when you click save?
- 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…
- 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
- 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 :)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- lw-d0
I don't think you can resell OS CMS' as your own... that would be crazy. Wouldn't it?