Best CMS for magazine layout
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- bmacneill
Hello all,
I'm looking for a CMS that might be specifically tailored to a magazine style website layout. Anything out there specifically like that? Or am I basically just using something generic and tailoring to my needs? I'm particularly interested in banner ad serving and analytics for those ads to give to advertisers.
Thanks in advance.
- ismith0
Might be a little over-the-top or slightly irrelevant for magazine-specific bits, but I've always had an itch to try http://ellingtoncms.com/
(I know the features page makes it sound somewhat inflexible, but python is nice to build onto)
- bmacneill0
Thanks guys!
- DrBombay0
wordpress does everything you need it to do, is an easy install, has tons of open source developers and is infinitely modifiable. Also doesnt have the problems and limitations of drupal or joomla.
- skelly_b0
I concur with the doctor. I'm finding WordPress is the way to go for almost any project. It flexible, easy to use, open source, and there is a lot of free plug-ins for added funcitonality.
- bmacneill0
But can I use wordpress on something large-scale? I'm looking into doing something the size of wallpaper.com or similar magazine.
- If you want to do something really large, consider something more specific or custom build.ismith
- Otherwise, you could end up wasting a lot of resources on cutting the fat off of generic CMSs.ismith
- Although generally, Wordpress will work well on a fairly large scale if you've got a good database.ismith
- AC020
I'm about to embark on my first CMS based site. I'm leaning towards ExpressionEngine for it, but still looking at WordPress. EE seems a tad easier to implement, otherwise i'd have to write my CSS/XHTML around the PHP of WP. Then again what do i know.
- bmacneill0
Been looking, and it looks like Expression Engine might be the one. Are there any PSD to XHTML slicers out there that will do an EE site? Or just wordpress? Thanks to everyone for helping out, I really appreciate it.
- Code it yourself! But if you can't it shouldn't be too hard to implement EE into it.AC02
- Oh and check this out,
http://www.train-ee.…
AC02
- TheBlueOne0
This whole "label Obama a socialist" is just yet another misfire in the McCain strategy. First off McCain is running a secondhand pisspoor imitation of a Rovian type 2000/2004 campaign.
Labeling your opponent a "liberal" worked then especially in '04 when you could actively control the definition of the word - could equate it to those "latte sipping, volvo driving, ny times reading limp-wristed cowardly elites". It worked for a while, and successfully at that. But it turns out the liberals were mostly correct on the things the Republicans were basing their cohesion and winning strategy on - the war and the economy. Iraq and Afghanistan are basically failed nation building excercises with no attainable victory conditions, al queda and osama are still out there, and the economy has just entered freefall which the Republican / Bush leadership attempts to address by nationalizing the banks - a move that would make Francois Mitterand blush. So the liberal critique of the main thrust of the Republican experiment was correct and then Bush uses tools of the left to address them. Meanwhile the endgame in Iraq is turning out exactly as Barrack Obama was stating would be his policy.
And Obama is running as a "liberal" and isn't trying to run away from the label like Gore and Kerry did. And it's working - meaning it's resonating with a majority of Americans.
So the McCain dusts off the old "socialist" meme. Problem is that it comes across as more quaint than anything else. No one even knows how to relate to it anymore. Like the episode of Seinfeld when Elaine gets romantically intrigued by the communist guy just because he's well an anachronism . Heck, even at that time in the mid 90's it was funny. Now, labeling a run-of-the-mill Clintonian Keynsian economic approach "socialist" just rings hollow, especially when it comes from the party who has a vice presidential candidate from a state where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year. Sounds like socialism to me.
And that's just one thing - the McCain campaign hasn't been able to get any single anti-obama smear to stick, so you end up with some diluted mess that has no central narrative. Meanwhile, all the Democrats have to do is tie McCain to Bush (not a historically difficult thing to do) and point out that McCain is old and out of touch and that Palin is not prepared for the office. That's it. Meanwhile McCain flails about trying to find some traction and in the meantime while trying to keep the base (the same last 20% that think Bush has done a bang up job) is alienating all the independents and middle road voters who are repelled by the gutter attacks and borderline hate rhetoric it inspires in the hardcore McCain supporters. Especially when, to most Average Joe's who aren't unlicensed plumbers and aren't related to Republican Congressmen, the smear attacks are hard to be believed. Seriously, it's hard to call anyone willing to be one of the major party nominee's for President "Un-American". It's just silly on it's face.
If Obama pulls this off, the Republicans are going to have one hell of a post-mortem.
- OH GOD...sorry..totally wrong thread...I FAIL.TheBlueOne
- haha!bmacneill
- LOLismith
- bmacneill0
uhhhhh...... yeah. ummmm..... ok.
- TheBlueOne0
Um, I meant to say - "go with expression engine"...
- bmacneill0
But is expression engine republican or democrat? Not that I really can tell the difference since I'm a Canuck.
- OhYeah0
http://drupal.org/ is superb for large jobs, pain the in ass to learn but once you know how it all works then it's very good, also you got http://www.joomla.org/ and the new version is very good.