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kwills · 22-08-2006, 03:58

Hi,

i was just wondering if anyone could shed any light on how to implement a CMS to a website? I'm not too sure how these things work, but would like to use one on a site i am going to design.

Can anyone recommend a decent CMS to use?

Many Thanks

smallbeer · 22-08-2006, 04:10

content management systems vary in scope and features. what are your requirements?

Narate · 22-08-2006, 05:09

http://wordpress.org/

if you're after something for text and images

kwills · 22-08-2006, 05:58

Thanks for that Narate, much appreciated. I am creating a site for my dads football team which would need to but update atleast twice a week with features such as:

Scores
Player Profiles
Latest News

and much more.

I think a nice, basic CMS will help.

Cheers

Dusteh · 22-08-2006, 06:31

www.opensourcecms.com choose one here.

my personal recommendations would be 'CMSmadesimple' - it does exactly what it says on the tin. Or for something more advanced then 'Drupal'.

kwills · 22-08-2006, 08:30

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Originally Posted by Dusteh

www.opensourcecms.com choose one here.

my personal recommendations would be 'CMSmadesimple' - it does exactly what it says on the tin. Or for something more advanced then 'Drupal'.

Thanks for that. Much Appreciated

pgo · 22-08-2006, 18:00

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Originally Posted by Dusteh

my personal recommendations would be 'CMSmadesimple' - it does exactly what it says on the tin. Or for something more advanced then 'Drupal'.

I agree.

It's free. It works.

You'll probably need to add in a few modules, but those are available and easily installed. Documentation is pretty decent and the community is fairly helpful.

If it's any consolation, I'm using it for our corporate intranet and, a few minor difficulties aside, it's working fine with, roughly, 600 regular users logging in/out. The execs seem happy, at least.

elementfusion · 17-10-2007, 17:27

If you're looking for something extremely simple, you could try speaklight.com. But it's web-hosted so you can't run it on your own servers.

pgo · 17-10-2007, 17:39

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Originally Posted by elementfusion

If you're looking for something extremely simple, you could try speaklight.com. But it's web-hosted so you can't run it on your own servers.

And you make it. What a coincidence.

d3mcfadden · 17-10-2007, 17:51

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Originally Posted by elementfusion

If you're looking for something extremely simple, you could try speaklight.com. But it's web-hosted so you can't run it on your own servers.

you should look at developing some standard web services (not to say that you are not working on that) so people can pull managed/hosted content onto their domain.. do that and I think your onto something. Looks like your in .NET so that should be a piece of piss to do.

who wants a .publishpath URL?

elementfusion · 17-10-2007, 17:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgo

And you make it. What a coincidence.

Indeed, we do! Thought it might be helpful to you.

elementfusion · 17-10-2007, 17:57

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Originally Posted by d3mcfadden

who wants a .publishpath URL?

You don't have to use the .publishpath.com. Everything can be run on your own domains.

Good ideas on the web services. We haven't gotten there yet. Thanks for the feedback!

d3mcfadden · 17-10-2007, 17:59

Looks nice though.. like the Rad Controls, we use those in our App too, they are fucking bad ass.

Joewebber · 18-10-2007, 17:04

Joomla! Been using it at work for a couple of years. Try the RC of the new version

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