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- lw-d
Which is your fave CMS, used joomla in the past, now looking at Drupal, Textpatter and Wordpress.
- shutterbug0
Sup, I bought a book on buidiling websites with Mambo. I know that it is the same as joomla but thats what I am trying to use right now.
For my personal Blog I plan on using wordpress I am trying to make a custom template from the blank template I found online. If you neeed that I have it.
I tried to use PHPwcms
But I couldnt get down with it.
PHPnuke is good but I think you could find something else out there.
Here are a few links I found on my host.
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/
I hoped I helped a little.
- TheBlueOne0
expressionengine & pmachine hands down...
ModX is really designer friendly as well...
- hiten0
custom is the way to go.
- Neuarmy0
Hey shutterbug, I'd like to check out that blank wordpress template... if you have a chance.
- chimchim0
you guys should check out mad4milk's mooflex CMS prototype.
http://mad4milk.net/entries/moof…
You know it's tasty.
- chimchim0
But seriously... custom is the way to go.
- madirish0
custom is by far the way to go. but if not, Plone 110%. it rules and is by far the most powerful and flexible application to build upon.
- Samush0
Who suggested Plone? It may be a wonderful tool and the best thing since the invention of the wheel, but you have to find out where to download it and navigate our way through one of the worst developer sites ever - plone.org, structred around plone i presume. Their site is so hard to read and extract information out of because its so cluttered! how do they expect anyone to use it if they can't use the site of its developers.
I think all those style of CMS systems need re-thinking, plone, mambo, joomla, phpnuke all of them should take some lessons in useability.
The only thing ive looked at and thought "they've got the right idea" is wordpress www.wordpress.org
its sleek and stylish and most importantly, not cluttered.The person who invented the wheel found out how to do it on a wordpress based website. If not there, it was on wikipedia.
- easy_target0
hey shutterbug can you flick me that wordpress template to me as well
thanx
- madirish0
wow, have to fully disagree.
to download, i would suggest going here: http://plone.org/products/plone
or the *very* forst content link on the front page labeled "DOwnload Plone"- both seem about as easy as anything i could imagine.as to the site esperience- i do not think it is cluttered at all. layered and chock full of an insane amount of info and resources? hell yes. cluttered, i really don't think so.
another aspect that really is irrelevant here is the comparison to mambo, nuke or joomla. these are all compiled snipits of dynamic scripting languages that end up hugging a db you create and marketed as a 'CMS'. while that definition is pretty relative, Plone is a true application and results in the user setting up a dynamic application server- very differnet than those others listed.
i also must kind of chuckle at the wordpress pick as getting best reviews. not to say it does not have it's point for a simple site with minimal to no remote db connectivity, but if you are a standards person with scalability, upper-end connectivity and CMS tools usage as your needs, good luck with wordpress.
oh, and wikipedia is built on plone... glad you like it. :)
- ender790
i guess it depends on what you are using it for. as far as making the site look the way i want it to, i've had the best results with wordpress. i've been trying out open source content management systems, and wordpress has been the easiest for me to implement my design. i'm going to check out drupal in the near future though.
- madirish0
could not agree more, ender79
- blackspade0
as far as stripped back/minimalist wordpress themes go have a look at;