Content Management Systems

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by Nitin M, Sep 4, 2004.

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    Curious what content management systems, if any, people use for their sites?

    To date I am just using standard header/footer/nav include files and then editing HTML in notepad (no kidding).

    Would love a really, really lightweight CMS that allows me to quickly jump between WYSIWYG and code view and doesn't automatically ty to add a bunch of garbage to the page everytime I edit it.

    I am thinking about maybe buying editize and just creating my own super simple cms. I am a developer type and don't want a "complete" solution.

    Would appreciate any advice/suggestions...
     
    Nitin M, Sep 4, 2004 IP
  2. bobafind

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    http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite/

    Depending on how much control you want, this includes wysiwyig editors, templates, and a module system so developers can add new functionality. The whole thing is done in PHP and is backed by MySQL.

    I've used is for a few things, it's worth taking a look at.
     
    bobafind, Sep 5, 2004 IP
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    payoutwindow Well-Known Member

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    visit Open Source CMS .. signup and you get try out many cms packages on their test servers.
     
    payoutwindow, Sep 6, 2004 IP
  4. Nitin M

    Nitin M White/Gray/Black Hat

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    Thanks for the links. I'll be checking them out. The more I think about my sites and my ideal solution the more I think I have no choice but to build my own. But, I'll be taking a look at these and if nothing else, hopefully they will give me a good starting point.

    Anyone use the editize product?
     
    Nitin M, Sep 6, 2004 IP
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    I was surprised to see how easy to customise WordPress is; try it at wordpress.org. It's light and easy to use; i use it since two days and can't say anything bad about it yet ;)
     
    kuhleen, Sep 8, 2004 IP
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    "Would love a really, really lightweight CMS that allows me to quickly jump between WYSIWYG and code view and doesn't automatically ty to add a bunch of garbage to the page everytime I edit it."

    I would try Chami's HTML editor. It's really useful and not full of clutter.

    ~david.
     
    david_sakh, Sep 8, 2004 IP
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    Just had to ditto that. Plus if you install the PHP interpreter on your machine, you can run the php scripts within the editor. Install Apache and you can do a lot more.

    Back on track. Someone mentioned OpenSourceCMS already. I would look at CMS Matrix also. You can get a "matrix" of features to do comparisons with. The features are filled in by volunteer editors or the software makers themselves -- and it is a pretty exaustive list.

    The popular CMS going right now is Mambo, while Drupal is not half shabby. An up and coming newcomer that is showing good reviews is Xaraya -- this is one killer app that I need to look into a little more.
     
    Dodger, Sep 15, 2004 IP