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?
Best CMS?
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?
*Edit woops dont mind me
Last edited by Carl Taylor; 20-04-08 at 03:38 PM.
I'm referring to Content Management System, for websites...
sorry bout that, was tired and didn't really read it right.
I like Joomla personally Joomla!
Joomla is the best. Dont worry about the restOriginally Posted by Carl Taylor
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 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.
Last edited by stabla; 30-05-08 at 05:12 PM.
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 is the most recent and probably the best site I have made with silverstripe.
A few other sites are:
www.hunterdrama.com
www.justinecampbell.com
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:
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.<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>
That is a really simple page and I recommend reading the silverstripe tutorials to show you how to get started..
Hope that helped, seems to be a long post.
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.
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