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- ukit
I know this has been discussed before in other aspects, but I need a CMS that will let me do the following:
-Set up a portal type of site with updates in different categories. Each update should also be cross-linkable to items in other categories.
-User registration and ability to manage account, post in a forum etc
-Give some users permissions to edit content and make posts themselves
-Eventual ability to add subscription based service and/ or shopping capability (may not need to be part of CMS)
-Ability customize CMS backend UI (Nice to have but optional)
Obviously most CMS including Wordpress can handle the first item. Is Joomla the best option for the user management/ ecommerce/ more advanced stuff?
- armsbottomer0
drupal would be the most powerful/customizable option in my opinion. however, two things need to be taken into account when using it: layout and amount of time to produce it. it'll probably take longer to create a drupal site, and its more difficult to get create unconventional layouts.
- version30
django
- Not really a CMS, is it?ukit
- nope, plone would be a good python cms, but with django you have to build it yourselfarmsbottomer
- my badversion3
- ********0
Have a look at http://www.concrete5.org.
It's edit-in-place and pretty comprehensive once you get under the hood.
- ukit0
Why is it difficult to change the layout in Drupal? Don't most of these CMSes just provide hooks into the data and let you create your own layout?
- it does, but drupal's framework is more coding intensive than say wp. it's harder to strike a balance between functionality and visual design, but it can be done.armsbottomer
- and visual design, but it can be done. take a look at the drupal themes compared to the wordpress ones.armsbottomer
- blaw0
Via Jaline, via Jevad:
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- TheBlueOne0
ExpressionEngine if you want to drop the change would give you all of that.
- ukit0
Yea, I've played around with ee for another project.
It does have its strengths, wish there were more pre-built templates available for it.
- version30
the only reason i asked about the templates was that my cms guy suggested i look into it a few months back, just got around to it a few weeks ago but haven't done anything with the free download yet. i wasn't sure if it was EE's setup making it difficult or what.
the part i feared was the backend looked like it left too much control in the editors hands, template choices, etc. i pay for a custom one each time because it only allows editing of the content that clients should be updating/adding to
- i don't want to have to clean up fuck ups from clients not understanding what they;re doingversion3
- ukit0
No, EE is completely un-templatized (not sure if that's a word). It's very "bare bones" which is the appeal of it for me. Also, best designed admin UI, much better than WP IMO.
The downsides for me are: (1) Not much in the way of templates/ modules/ support, fairly small userbase (2) Must pay $200/ installation (3) Adds index.php to all URLs by default (can be hacked but annoyingly difficult)
- NM, I might have misunderstood what you were saying thereukit
- version30
nah, it's cool, sharing info is (i think) the point of the site. the index.php statement has me a bit confuzzled though, i should look into what that's about
- version30
is there not enough here to help piece together your ideas?
http://expressionengine.com/temp…
i have to admit, this is somewhat uninspiring
http://expressionengine.com/file…
- ukit0
I guess what I'm saying is that they don't seem to have a wide range of entire site templates that you can "reverse engineer" like WP or Joomla does.
I'd rather start from a template for the functionality and only worry about designing the front-end graphics if you know what I mean.
- welded0
ExpressionEngine doesn't really do templates like WordPress or Drupal; you can't just drop in a pre-made template, click apply and walk away.