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Time and again, people want to use a hacked up blogging engine as a CMS and lament that it is not working. Use a CMS that's been around for more than decade wh
by FraaJad 15y ago
Time and again, people want to use a hacked up blogging engine as a CMS and lament that it is not working.
Use a CMS that's been around for more than decade which has all the features you want in a proper CMS (single sign on, WYSIWGY, multi-lingual support, a huge community of developers and service providers).
ie., Plone -- http://plone.org http://plone.org
- smacktoward 15y agoThe problem with CMSes that have "all the features you want" is that they have so many features that the average user who just needs to plonk some content down on a page and periodically edit it can't wade through all the features to figure out how to do that. (I don't say this to pick on Plone -- I'm a big fan of the TYPO3[1] CMS, for instance, which does lots of the things that he mentions very well, but the downside to that power is that it's insanely hard for normal people to pick up and use.) [1] http://typo3.org http://typo3.org
- beza1e1 15y agoA few years ago i recommended website baker as a nice simple CMS, which is also hackable if necessary. That was three years ago. Maybe the situation has changed, but i would never recommend a complexity-monster like Typo3. Typo3 is "enterprisy" in the negative sense. http://www.websitebaker2.org http://www.websitebaker2.org
- smacktoward 15y agoDon't be too hard on TYPO3, it has its virtues. For instance, it has the most elegant handling of multilingual content I've ever found in fifteen years of working with CMSes. But for a small single-language site (i.e. 99% of the sites people develop) it's definitely overkill.
- intheory0 15y agoFor as complex as it is, TYPO3 is pretty usable. I built a site on TYPO3 before I ever messed with WordPress some 6 years ago. Now that I think of it, I'd probably opt for TYPO3 before Drupal.
- FraaJad 15y agoCMS is a grown-up software. Selecting and using a CMS requires time, preparation and mostly importantly a budget. If you haven't considered the any of these, then you can't really afford a CMS.
- smacktoward 15y agoThis is an awesome way to rationalize writing software that nobody uses.
- dextorious 15y agoI also want it to be easily adjustable to arbitrary needs. This doesn't cut it. Also, Zope based. I worked with Zope building large portals from 2000-2004. Worked, but not a very pleasant experience.
- FraaJad 15y agoPlone has improved a lot in the past 8 years. Zope is just a datastore that happens to be well suited for storing documents. Bad things happened because people did too much magic with zope. "With power comes responsibility" etc.,