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Re: [LUG] Web Content Management

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I am supposed to have taken over management of my CU's website, but it 
> all keeps blowing up in my face! Anyway, all the disasters aside, I 
> still can't figure out which content management system to use. Can 
> anyone point me in the direction of a guide to content management 
> systems? Or even if something exists which will do what I want?
>
> I've tried a few and I always get stuck. It seems that most of the 
> systems out there are based around the principle of a blog, which isn't 
> really what I'm looking for. Notably, not one of them has provided a way 
> for me to edit the front page in *any way* other than adding articles 
> (usually as teasers). It really really needs to be more flexible than 
> that. Especially with regard to me including my own PHP scripts, without 
> having to mess about putting it into the CMS.
>       I would much prefer PHP to Java if possible, unless it will work 
> without me having to mess with tomcat. As for storage of pages, I would 
> actually prefer a situation where I can edit it with vim over ssh if I 
> like, but still have a web interface for other people to use- though I'm 
> guessing this idea is not really feasible.
>       As well as being flexible it has to be simple to edit pages. I want a 
> really minimalistic clean interface (that goes for the code generation 
> as well). I was attempting to use Joomla, but honestly I think it's a 
> disaster- far too many options, and I kept ending up with duplicated 
> titles and all sorts, which made it impossible for anyone else to edit 
> it. The manager interface for Joomla looks like it should be simple and 
> professional, but it really isn't.
>       I definitely think that pages should be organised using a folder 
> hierarchy rather than this section/category system I keep finding, which 
> really really doesn't work.
>       As for permissions/user management I've sortof resigned myself to the 
> fact that I'm probably going to have to open it all up to everyone who 
> will be editing anything, since none of the systems I have encountered 
> are flexible enough to work for me.
>
> Maybe I'm going about this completely the wrong way?
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Simon
>
>   
have you tried CMS Made Simple (http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/)-  It is 
PHP based - uses Smarty and is pretty basic - I did some work on a site 
a couple of years ago that used it but I cant really remember that much 
about it.

It might be worth a look...

Dave

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