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I currently make lots of static brochure websites and its starting to get to me having to update all of them manually, even if they are only small chages.
What CMS do you guys like to use?
Carl Taylor
20-04-08, 01:18 PM
*Edit woops dont mind me
I'm referring to Content Management System, for websites...
Carl Taylor
20-04-08, 05:39 PM
sorry bout that, was tired and didn't really read it right.
I like Joomla personally Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org)
crackers
21-04-08, 01:46 AM
sorry bout that, was tired and didn't really read it right.
I like Joomla personally Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org)
Joomla is the best. Dont worry about the rest
Brendan
21-04-08, 08:09 PM
yea Joomla is very good, its extremely functional with a huge support community with lots of extensions, themes and modifications available for free, I use it for a lot of my larger clients.
I used wordpress for Appbid : Buy and Sell Facebook and Opensocial Applications (http://www.appbid.com) and it is great due to its simplicity, if you just want to add simple articles in categories and thats about it.. then wordpress is ideal, simple and easy to use.
I have also heard good things about drupal, but never myself used it.
What is your website that you want to add a CMS to? that might help me point you in the right direction.
Hey guys I use silverstripe...
really simple coding
nice backend system that pretty much anyone could use
good SEO optimisation (pretty urls and what not)
quite a few modules (blog, forum, etc) that are installed easily
some nice themes
good support on the forums, and excellent in the irc chat room
I found the backend of joomla wasn't heaps nice and the whole system was a little clunky, but massive amounts addons and good support.
Also heard good things about drupal, a really powerful system apparently.
Stabla, out of all my research i found silverstripe to look the best, for the reason your stated... i hadnt heard one thing about it before i found it searching online. I'm surprised it isn't bigger then it is.
Do you have any websites that are using it now that i can see?
Can you give me a run down on how easy it is to integrate with a design?
www.bennharradine.com (http://www.bennharradine.com) is the most recent and probably the best site I have made with silverstripe.
A few other sites are:
www.hunterdrama.com (http://www.hunterdrama.com)
www.justinecampbell.com (http://www.justinecampbell.com)
www.neveenhanna.com (http://www.neveenhanna.com)
I have only just found it in the last couple of months as well, I think its because they are a relatively small company based in New Zealand and so don't get all the hype say, a US company would get...
Basically the site is rendered through .SS files in a modular fashion. Normal HTML and CSS are used and silverstripe code like <% include Sidebar %> or $Content.FirstParagraph (which basically just calls parts of the page or functions in the core php files) within the HTML...
So design wise you have your normal layout which is split into navigation, sidebars, main content, footer, other sidebars or whatever... a basic example page would look like this:
<html>
<head>
<% base_tag %>
$MetaTags
</head>
<body>
<div id="BgContainer">
<div id="Header">
<h1>SITENAME.COM</h1>
</div>
<div id="Navigation">
<% include Navigation %>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Layout">
$Layout
</div>
<% if Page(blog) %>
<% include LatestPost %>
<% end_if %>
<div id="Footer">
<% include Footer %>
</div>
</body>
</html>The $Layout calls the layout.ss page and <% include Footer %> calls the footer.ss page and as you can see if blocks can be used as well.
That is a really simple page and I recommend reading the silverstripe tutorials (http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=tutorials) to show you how to get started..
Hope that helped, seems to be a long post.
itycoon
31-05-08, 05:14 AM
Joomla. The reason I say that is it has the biggest userbase and info base. Drupal is way more powerful than Joomla but it takes a while to get used to.
twenty-eleven
02-06-08, 12:16 PM
it really depends on what your needs are - there are different CMS options for different needs
I'm a big fan of Drupal ... it does virtually everything, although the base forum is incredibly horrible, so you need to find a 3rd party forum that integrates with it. So really, Drupal is great for a news/portal/whatever site - the more complex the merrier - but if the site will be primarily a forum, don't use it. I have a couple of sites in Drupal, one in Wordpress, had one that was entirely custom but moved to Drupal, and also run some forums with various free and commercial software.
Drupal is a total pain in the butt the first time you use it though, once you've worked out all (ok, some of) its features and foibles, and figured out how to theme it up, and pulled out most of your hair and discovered that custom php Just Works, its lovely.
Brendan
19-06-08, 10:59 PM
Hey HWT, it would be great to see some of your sites developed in Drupal.. we use Joomla for a lot of our clients and they love it.
It would be good to offer something else for those who want options.
Most of our sites aren't worth bothering with, but the biggie is my pet project, Giraffian | kid's stuff (http://www.giraffian.com) ... has a helluvalot of drupal features in use there, no forum (between looking for a good drupal forum and realising how much mod work it would be to keep it totally clean, swearing-free etc I didn't bother). I currently have a longish to-do list here that needs so much scripting, graphics, database design etc that it could keep me busy until Easter. I switched to Drupal late last year, took a lot of pestering of people in the drupal community to get the site to do what I wanted.
The site got a mention in a small-town newspaper a few weeks ago as non-profit, but it is a nice little earner considering it is free content and isn't a community site. I don't market it, I should.
Edit: hey, this forum software grabbed the title of my site ...
That's a really kewl looking site :-)
The title grab is an awesome feature!!!
JD
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