What CMS?
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- jayoh
I have been looking for a Content Management System that can be very easily implemented and would give a client control over their site.
I am a designer not a developer, so what do you guys use and how do you find it?
- flavorful0
CONSTIPATED MONKEY SMEGMA!
- airey0
as a designer (not a developer) i can say:
• expression engine looks great. going to use this with a developer for a client.
• wordpress is good, used this a few times for both blogs and simple sites.
• mod-x is free and seems pretty good but free so not as client-friendly as you might prefer.
• cushyCMS looks pretty good.
• Adobe Contribute is easy and cheap.either way there's some learning curve involved in all options and it's a good time to learn a solution you can then sell to other clients.
- CheDouglas0
SilverStripe looks pretty good from a client and designer perspective – apparently the backend code isn't all that great for developers though
- jeremyk0
Wordpress is easy to customize & works great as a CMS.
- DrBombay0
wordpress does anything they want it to, open source and free. unless you want extra hours to develop something of your own, I would go wordpress.
- jevad0
We use modx a lot here
- sherm0
@jayoh...
you can have static pages, work up your own CSS over a basic theme.
- nocomply0
IMO the documentation and support for wordpress is better than any other CMS out there.
you can make your homepage a static page and kind-of disable the blog part of it altogether if that's what you're after.
- KennyRodger0
I have always wondered, what if you already had a site, running on a database that was all custom. But you want to stop using a custom made admin, and use a package CMS for the admin. Can these CMS packages read a database, or be setup easily to read your own database structure? Might be asking a bit much, but always wondered if thats possible.
- TheBlueOne0
Try them all out here:
http://opensourcecms.com/
- jsaul0
textpattern is good for designers & has good admin system
- jysta0
My 2cents purely from designer pov:
Cushy - is great but very limited.
Wordpress - is too bloated.Textpattern - built for designers/ very extensible, loads of plug-ins to use as and when you need them. No labourious php tag stripping like in Wordpress. Build everything from simple tag system. Good active community (they also published a book which is very clear and well written).
Some people may argue that some complex systems are a bit difficult to do in TXP but most of the time this scenario would be tackled by a developer anyways.
- bezul5550
give it to adobe contribute = remove project from your CV
- WeLoveNoise0
i suggest u send the client to the direction of a developer and them pay for their service - u done ur part
- Dancer0
Can I butt in?
Firstly I have only heard amazing things about Expression Engine... does cost though.
If I had a client that just wanted to edit a news area/div on the front page what would you use?
- cushycmsJamesBoynton
- Cushy, if you wanted an archive of the news then TXP.
And yes EE is expensive.jysta
- Dancer0
Ok so cushy is a goer for me
Of those with experience with it. Can add styles and but things like horizontal Rules in? i.e Can you add HTML code to it?
- yep, i think you can... its much like any other text editor in a CMS i think. You can edit just text or htmlJamesBoynton
- 23kon0
even with wordpress etc Jayoh, you are going to need a little technical know-how to get things setup.
- jysta0
anyone tried cakePHP? is it designer friendly?
- KennyRodger0
CakePHP is hard to learn, due to lack of good docs and community, and yeah its a framework, not a CMS. Many people like it, but not for me. For frameworks, I suggest Code Igniter. Also, Expression Engine 2.0 will be built on the Code Igniter framework, but that could be a few more months till its released, or tomorrow?