Control Management Systems

Does anybody here use CMS for managing their websites? If so what kind of site you do have and what CMS are you using?

Thanks

 

First of all, CMS stands for content management system. Second, your question is way to general. If you're looking for a CMS, there are lots of good ones, start by looking at mambo, drupal, wordpress, the list goes on and on.

 

I have a site using mambo

 

I see a lot of sites out there with 100s and 1000s of pages. I'm wondering how they manage all of these different pages? If you want to change some keywords or design of the site how do they go about doing this?

I think it would take days to manually go in there and change each page by hand.

 

The pages probably use one template page and then use a database to add the content to the template when the page is requested.

This way you can update the page content in the database and not have to edit the code.

 

Is there still a static page for each page you see? Or are they dynamically generated on the fly?

 

Basically you set the content for the page through the admin center and then once you hit Save, it'll create the page at that point, and any additional changes at any time will be made to that.

Chances are, as aformentioned, that the system will be running on a template system, so you change the template, and the look of all pages using that template will change accordingly.

I suggest installing a few on a local server (www.apachefriends.org > Projects > XAMPP - Good free web server package) and seeing which one you prefer, and getting a feel for them.

Alternativly, if you would like, I'd be happy to install a few for you to have a browse around, both front end and the admin sections.

 

Thanks. I just found opensourcecms.com it has some good information on it about different CMS programs.

 

If a CMS is important to you, I mean it is something that will be your controlling center piece then I would have someone build one that is based on exactly what you need. If you don't want to go the way, Then make sure you know what the code does or hire someone that can inspect the code to be sure it is safe. Because their are thousands of dangerous web based programs floating around the Internet. In using the word dangerous, I mean they will in some form leave openings that could jeopardize your complete system!

jb

 

DragonflyCMS is a good one.

tri-stateconsulting.net is managed using that CMS.

 

I'm using joomla for many of my sites. Very easy to use.
www.christmas-recipes.net is using it right now.