[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html