What do you use for Content Management?

[jjo]

I was curious, what do people use for article-related content management? How well can they integrate Google Adsense into them?

(is that better?)

[exaro]

What do you mean, like cpanel or something?

[solution2u]

I think you have posted in wrong place.

[longroad]

posted in wrong place and he means like mambo, xoops etc - content management systems, or your own custom system

[exaro]

Oh mostly I just use my own custom management system that I needed to make for my other sites. I just used php/mysql to store all page information. I can create/add/edit files, or database from a normal webpage. I needed to do that because the people I made sites for don't have cpanel access, and have little or no html/php knowledge.

[jjo]

I was just curious what you guys use to manage your Adsense-based sites. Sites with a ton of pages can get out-of-hand easily, and was wondering what people used to manage their sites.

I've heard of Mambo; what are some others?

Here's [one of] my website[s] with Adsense on it: http://www.ratemyjeep.com

[dvduval]

I prefer not to use a content management system at all. I prefer to assemble those things that I need such as forum, link directory, blog, photo album, etc. rather than use a cms that always contains thing I don't need.

[jjo]

That's exactly what I did on ratemyjeep.com and joelfan.com. However, if I wanted to create a site of articles, I think a CMS would be helpful should the site get large.

[a3196]

I use Mambo for 5 of my site...

Mambo is pretty good and works good for me..

[Critters]

I think this post should be moved, and you should edit your first post to say what sort of site you need a CMS for as there are many for normal pages, and prob some specialist ones for directories / article sites / shopping sites etc..

[Talkfreelance]

I've heard mambo is good.

[tbarr60]

I code my own in ColdFusion or use phpNuke for an a free simple but limited content mangement system.

Depending on what your doing, it might be best to code your own. ColdFusion is a great programming language to start with (and stay with). If you can make own HTML page and have some technical ability, you can make a site with any number of pages with ColdFusion and a database like MySQL or Access. You'd need ColdFusion hosting.

You could look at phpNuke or postNuke if you have php and mysql available on your host. It's fairly easy to edit or add blocks and modules to.

[YoByte]

I use PHP Nuke7.7 but they have removed the free versions from Version 7.8 onwards....

PHP Nuke is easy and ok....

it uses PHP and MySQL and is very simple to configure....

[Abilnet]

There are so many Great CMS-systems available... you just need to figure out, what you really need - and then make your choice.

I've tested several CMS-systems and used Mambo for many of my sites ( onlineloantoday.com for example)... a lot of free templates and components available, easy to set up, configure etc. I'ts quite a good choise, if you're on shared hosting and want to do most things just by couple of mouse clicks. However, Mambo has its limitations (no multi-site features, for example) and it's quite hungry for server resources.

After about two active years with Mambo our team decided to change to Drupal ( http://drupal.org )... it's far more professional and flexible... and most important, from our developers point of view, it's superior with clear and well documented API's (it means, you have a great platform and codebase to build some professional extensions etc.) However, Drupal is not the easiest one to set up and learn... and to get the most out of it, it's better to have a dedicated server.

A great place to play with on-line demos, is OpensourceCMS http://opensourcecms.com

Hope this helps :)

[Leffy]

I use WordPress. It doesn't just need to be used for blogs, though that is its primary function. The new version is extremely flexible.

Plus its easy to setup, easy to use, and opensource.

[domokun]

Movable Type - can't recommend it enough

[gsyi]

@ Leffy and domokun
Wordpress and movable Type are weblog publishing systems :D

@ YoByte
PHP Nuke ist a portal script ;-)

CMS are for example mambo or typo 3 ...

[YoByte]

@ YoByte
PHP Nuke ist a portal script ;-)

CMS are for example mambo or typo 3 ...

PHP Nuke has powerful CMS though....

[alph]

However, if I wanted to create a site of articles

Have you tried looking for just "news" type CMS products. They genearlly aren't a full out CMS's, but simple allow you to add/edit/update news articles on your site.

[aboyd]

Movable Type - can't recommend it enough
Interesting. I recently started moving away from Movable Type (and Mambo) in favor of Textpattern.

I've also heard good things about Expression Engine. I went looking for more info and got turned off. Unfortunately, now I don't recall why I got turned off.

I'm just starting with Textpattern, so it may turn out to be an awful choice. So far, it seems fine.

-Tony

[csmith]

Or you could use cmsmatrix.org to search for specfic features. Sorry, can't post live links yet.

[uca]

So far I would recommend Drupal for more complex sites, Wordpress for simple ones.

Still, I am a little disillusioned by CMS, you need to invest too much time to get to grips with one and judge it, and then you need to try to another one because it might be better, and then up comes a new one, and so on...:(

[bagman101]

I use article manager from interactivetools.com and I also use mambo. I love them both.