Just starting a new Project and I really want to get into using CMS and I think this project would be ideal. The site will have maybe 4 catagories, lot's of news and unique articles. I'll probably be adding a forum at some point and I'd like to be able to give it a nice logo. I'll need to be able to add Adsense and move it around a bit .... I tried mambo on a prvious site but gave up after a while and went back to Dreamweaver So what should i look at??
I installed Plone last night as a test. It looks good -- even though I did decide against it (or any CMS) at the current time. I would definitely recommend reading Wikipedia's Comparison of Content Management Systems.
I didn't get on with Plone too well when I tested it - which is why it's always good to have other opinions and a site like Open Source CMS which lets you try them all out! I personally use Mambo which has just morphed into Joomla (long story) but you'll find other people here passionately promoting Drupal. Because your requirements are fairly standard any of these systems "should" do it out of the box so it'll be a matter of picking which one feels the most intuitive for you. Make sure the one you chooses makes it easy to produce RSS feeds for your users! Sarah
Thanks for the comments, I spent a few hours looking around various sites and for the moment I've gone with e107 The admin panel looks much more intuitive to mambo
I'm pleased to see that e107 is still going well. It's was on my shortlist too. My major concern was the speed that the official homepage loads even when on uber-broadband. Other e107 sites seemed fast, however.
i have a company called far design who have just developed a cms for me (though i have no technical skills) have to say though its been really cheap adn worked well for me so far you can see the site i have done with them at: www.algarverentalapartments.com i look after all design content through the cms but we still have some seo teething issues to sort!
he ..he .. i've tried dreamweaver and mambo. i think i'll give up on dreamweaver and go for mambo. yes, it's hard to learn but easy to use ( just ike any other open source softwares). i am struggling with it but IMHO it is a super thing
Mambo, now renamed Joomla is the best content management solution around, IMHO. It is available form http://www.joomla.org. Joomla 1.0.0 (after being renamed) will be released sometime in September 2005. I suggest that you wait for that to be released before going on to install it afresh... I also use Mambo is my site at http://mambo.medspan.info which is focused on Mambo itself! I provide templates and modules for the Mambo community and also make custom modules as per specifications for individual users.
i found wordpress to suit my needs on a site very well, but i was looking for sheer simplicity of use for the client, and that's what wordpress is, dead easy to use and to customise both the layout of content and the layout of the site itself as it runs off templates. I've not tried mambo so that maybe just as easy but from what i read it's a little more complicated
Plone is quite different form other common open-source CMS. Specifically it is different from those which is built on/for PHP/MySQL/Appache. So you have to check if the places you host satisfy the installation requirements of Plone.
A few questions I would like to ask: - is your website going to be big? - what features will you have in your website (eg any polls/surveys, voting system, built-in search, subscription functions)? - what are your criteria of choosing a CMS (eg ease of use VS feature-rich? All-in-one VS simple/lite?) By the way, if you wish to try an easy CMS. How about CMS made simple (the review is here)? It is rated high in http://www.opensourcecms.com/
The poster will not like it since it specifically states it doesn't like Mambo. Joomla is a spilt-up version of Mambo. Now Joomla is just the same as Mambo. In the future, thy will be different.
I would recommend Joomla aka Mambo. I feel it would perfectly suit your Project requirements as its got unique feature of RSS feeds in your CMS Site.
Sorry, but I wonder why poeple keep recommending Mambo/Joomla (and some even without explanation). The questioner has stated he tried mambo but gave up after a while. At least if you wish to persuade the person into re-using Mambo/Joomla. You need to give some explanations. Not intend to offend, but don't these sorts of answers help the person any? PS: Anyway, don't make me wrong that I hate mambo/Joomla. The point I would like to raise is it is no good to recommend Mambo/Joomla since the question says "no" to them.
There's some wider survey done about the topic by OpenSourceCMS. Some interesting results has been collected here: http://drupal.org/node/31474