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- sputnik7
i haven't been here for a while but hope i can get some advice. i've been saddled w/a pro bono cms project done w/joomla - seems like 80% of it is ok and the rest is a pain in the ass to customize. any recommendations for a better [hopefully free] cms?
- rodzilla0
wordpress
- ukit0
Expression Engine 2
http://expressionengine.com/publ…
Without knowing what the requirements of your project are, Wordpress might suffice. But EE will give you more options and isn't all that hard to set up. The new EE2 UI is pretty nice.
- Nightshade0
definitely Wordpress
- jay_tuck0
http://www.modxcms.com It's easy to install, completely customizable, and there is a great community of people backing it up.
- Fine CMS, documentation and 'support' is a joke. Get EE if you can't invest the timecomicsans
- seeessess0
+1 for modx ^ Superb, I love it!
- sputnik70
thanks everyone! i will look into all of these :)
- SPECTACULAR0
I don't get how this "+1" or "-1000" system works...
Why does seeessess only get 1 vote while welded gets 1000?- +1ejectstudio
- -1000flashbender
- -1000000 for not understanding this simple rating scalemarychain
- seeessess0
^ positive is good, negative is bad, negative 1000 is piss poor
- subcommandante0
textpattern
- alex0
We prefer using Concrete 5 http://www.concrete5.org/
- welded0
I didn't mean to be troll-y, but I've built a couple sites in ModX and I really haven't enjoyed working with it at all. The bulk of my annoyance stems from the esoteric chunk/snippet/template variable system. Every time I wanted to do something I'd have to head back to Google and figure it out. That's the thing with weirdo template tag systems like this (Expression Engine can fall into the same trap); it's totally proprietary and even if I do manage to learn it pretty well I can't transport the knowledge anywhere else. At least with these other CMSs you're still working in PHP.
All that said, I would probably look at Expression Engine first because even when I got stuck with its built in tags I could usually work around it without *too* much trouble and the support is pretty good. You might have to pony up for the commercial license to get some necessary modules though.
- +0set
- " it's totally proprietary" is true of any cms you use. There is no standard.subcommandante
- I know, and that's not what I mean.welded
- Dancer0
Yeah I think the primary word(s) here are "pro Bono" so IMO Expression Engine will not work. But I would love to try it, esp. now 2.0 is out
I am very new to CMS's and have so far used, EE, WP, and C5.... I would go for Concrete5 purely because the client editing seems far more straight forward.
- my father in law can't type an email, yet manages a property site in modx ;o)seeessess
- adev0
I've gotta say: I just installed Concrete5 after never using it before, and in less than 15-20 minutes-- I had it completely running, created and installed a template based on my current HTML site and was building/editing pages that matched my directory structure and everything.
Talk about easy and powerful. I'm sold. I don't think I've ever used open source software this easy to template/use.
- utopian0
QBN > FILTER
- comicsans0
FYI There is a cheap EE licence, one per customer, which they could buy.
If you are converting from one CMS to another then that is a potentially big undertaking. Does the site even need a CMS? could you get away with e.g. wordpress?
- DoktorDavid0
Appreciate the pro bono aspect, but CMS is still CMS. I have worked with the big ones - FileNET (now IBM o/o) and Documentum (now EMC o/o) - you get exactly what you pay for. Docushare (http://docushare.xerox.com/) was offered free with certain Xerox solutions - may be worth checking it out.
- hawkwah0
Have a gander at http://pyrocms.com/ I've set it up but haven't messed around with it much. Not many themes available yet.