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- d_rek0
Thanks for the recommendations.
I played around with Concrete5 a little the other day. Not enough to really make a definitive judgement but overall I liked what I saw. I'll have to play around with it a little more before we commit.
- If you have any questions about it, post em here, I'll answer what I can.ESKEMA
- ESKEMA0
Concrete5 will give you inline editing and content approval out of the box, the templating system is super simple, the core blocks should get you started for most of the stuff, the add-ons marketplace has a lot of extras to suit basically every need, probably a lot less than Wordpress though, but I never found something that I couldn't do in C5, and if you can't find something, it's not that difficult to build your own custom blocks if you know your way with PHP. Plus it's very easy to hack every block, in fact, the whole system is built in a way that lets you modify and create custom templates out of anything. I'm a noob at PHP and I modify things all the time, super easy even for non-developpers.
That said, there's been a while since I touched WP, I'm going to have to in a future project so I guess I'll see what the state of things are. C5 is also very different now than it was a couple years ago, people who didn't used it recently should give it a go. I really love to work with it.- < Yup.Continuity
- Actually, templating is caveman-simple. By far the easiest CMS I've used, as a designer.Continuity
- mekk0
Try Modx, all that sites have a pretty basic hierarchy and sometimes a different template on them.
modx could be best because you can drag&drop in the backend and assign templates and functions easily with that.
It also brings functions like friendly urls and "give me the navigation here as ul-list with class xy" that is easy to use. For example:
[ !Wayfinder? &startId=`XXX` &level=`2`! ]
Gives you a list of the active elements in the 2nd level. Top notch if you ask me. Genius and simple. Love it.It's pretty awesome, really!
- Continuity0
'Number of users who will be updating the CMS will be relatively low - My estimate would probably never be more than a handful of users (4-6).
Inline or on-page editing would be a huge bonus.
Workflows and content approvals... to a degree, yes, we might require that.'
Concrete5 is exactly what you're looking for, then. Setting up the actual site, once you've marked it up is utterly painless; no separate header and footer files, no weird WP blog nomenclature to deal with, no cumbersome PHP loop business.
You just mark it up, define your editable zones, save as PHP files and, hey presto, job done.
- ideaist0
d_rek,
I've said it countless times here, but:
WORDPRESS
http://wordpress.com/+
STARKERS (THEME)
https://github.com/viewportindus…"Starkers is a bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer. Free of all style, presentational elements, and non-semantic markup, Starkers is the perfect ‘blank slate’ for all your WordPress projects."
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ADVANCED CUSTOM FIELDS (ACF)
http://www.advancedcustomfields.…"Fully customize edit screens with powerful fields: Wysiwyg, text, image, file, repeater, select, checkbox, page link, post object, date picker, colour picker and more."
&
CSS & JAVASCRIPT TOOLBOX
http://css-javascript-toolbox.co…"A powerful code management plugin that simplifies adding scripts to your website."
No more and no less...
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- yuppersprophetone
- what this man said exactlyfadein11
- word up, except it should be wordpress.org, right?mantrakid
- thanksd_rek
- d_rek0
Number of users who will be updating the CMS will be relatively low - My estimate would probably never be more than a handful of users (4-6).
Inline or on-page editing would be a huge bonus.
Workflows and content approvals... to a degree, yes, we might require that.
Image editing, no. Resource mgmt? not sure what that is.
Basically i'll be the guy designing / developing the site. I'll be one of a handful of people who will make updates / create new content for the site.
Wordpress is definitely in my comfort zone but I understand it might not be the right CMS.
- spot130
You can do any of those sites with Wordpress or Drupal or Concrete5, I think we need more information. The first question is how many people would need access to manage content? Do you require workflows and content approvals? Do you want inline editing? Do you need image editing and resource management?
I think if you don't have a huge number of CMS users and you're just looking for flexibility on the design, go with Wordpress. If you're project is larger scale Concrete5 might be a good fit but all of these are Open Source so you should go with what you're most comfortable working with.
- Concrete5 is way more flexible design wise IMO...ESKEMA
- Design flexibility is far more dependant on the developer than any of these CMS'shereswhatidid
- yep concrete5 is no more flexible than wordpress if you know how to customise wordpressfadein11
- "If you know how to customize WP"... C5 is dead easy to customizeESKEMA
- d_rek
Say I wanted to create a content-managed site similar to the ones below:
https://developer.atlassian.com/…
http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/d…
http://developer.android.com/des…
What would be the most designer-friendly CMS to use for the job?
I'm familiar with and capable of hacking up WP installs and editing themes but i'm not convinced it would be the right CMS for the job.