Open CMS Systems for public website
Been starting to look into CMS system for a public website (In this case imendio.com) . Been looking at Joomla (which we are currently using for Gnome.se), Drupal and some on Plone.
I know that Joomla would do the job but it’s a bit hackish in places while providing a nice admin GUI (though it sometimes feels more pretty than functional). Drupal seems to have a pretty nice template system that shouldn’t provide any problems to make the template we want. However when last using Drupal I got the feeling that it was intended mostly for blog-like contents rather than a mix of static pages and blog-like contents.
Plone can probably do the job as well but seems to mostly be for community portals and company internal pages.
Does anyone have any thoughts regarding this I would be most interested to hear them. Or if you can recommend some other tool worth looking at.
another one to look at is typo3, a very popular CMS too.
It might help if you supply your needs; things like user/rights management, what is content to you, programming language support on your server, multilangual content requirements for the site?
CMSMS worth the try. It’s really the only “simple” CMS I ever seen.
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/home.shtml
Very nice CMS (framework too) is the Etomite.
Page tree, WYSIWYG editor, user & rights managment, embedded php snippets, html chunks, multi templates, caching system.
Best regards
Yes Ploum is right - TYPO3 is a great system. I worked with it a lot in the past months. However, the learning curve is pretty steep. It would really help if you specify what exactly you need: How many pages, how many users, any special features, etc.
If you need any external help, let me know. I’m a student and do some freelance TYPO3 hacking. As your company develops free software, I would work for a quite low salary
cheers, chris
I suggest you to have a look at eZ publish (www.ez.no). It’s very powerful and flexible.
Out of the box Plone is well suited for a community portal, but it is easy to configure it for a more “corporate” website. There are a number of tutorials on plone.org and the community is very helpful.
Also, if you’re curious, here is a del.icio.us list of plone sites:
http://del.icio.us/tag/plone-site
Good hunting.
Just an FYI, http://photogeeks.org runs Drupal. I like it.
Hej, Mikael
You might find Midgard interesting:
http://www.midgard-project.org/
It provides good multilingual capabilities, and abstracts all data thrugh GObjects… Kind of GNOME for the server
I am also searching a good CMS for th upcoming webpage of “mozchat”(jabberclient) and had a closer look at drupal.
I noticed that the current beta version changed quite some stuff concerning static pages.
you might want to have a look at those videos: http://www.lullabot.com/videocast
textpattern is really nice.
http://www.textpattern.com
We’ve got some early work on Jabber integration directly with Drupal. Will that change your mind?
Drupal is perfectly suited for a mixture of static and dynamic content. If you are doing *mainly* static content…it’s overkill.
So…talk some more about your requirements, and let’s see what best meets your needs.
Ive been suprised recently at how much you can achieve with wordpress and plugins.
- Blog? Duh.
- Static Pages - yep
- forum? XDForum plugin (basic - next release has more normal features)
- photo gallery? - yes, Gallery2Wordpress or something like that.
- custom php code? i think so, never tried.
If you are ok with a “simple” CMS (no pdf creation etc) try Website Baker:
http://www.websitebaker.org/2/home/
http://www.exponentcms.org This is a phenominal CMS. All other CMS’s have the idea of a front-end interface and a backend (administrative) interface. This is what sets exponent apart from the rest.
The best feature of Exponent is that of front-end administration. You login and you are taken back to the normal site with a few quirks. Small icons appear next to all content blocks. For example, each text block has edit, delete, and revision history. Revision history is on of my favorite features as it mixes the best from a wiki with a coherent content management system.
Sorry I forgot to say… A front end content management system has 0 learning curve as it can’t be any more intuitive.
http://www.typo3.com/ is the most popular CMS for corporate stuff in Germany.
Also, there is still http://www.zope.org/ , but that might be overkill for you.
Friends don’t let friends do Plone.
http://www.axcms.net - Free and Fast.
For testing various Open Source CMS, please have a look at:
http://opensourcecms.com/
It lets you test the default installation and the admin backend of every listed CMS. There’s also a best-of listing, generated from ratings. Beware: the list is sorted by category first.
take a look at http://spip.net … it’s a very good one
I might as well plug my own CMS. I’ve been working on using Rails that can currently serve up static pages, files, and some basic contact management. It’s not very open at the moment (could be, but I need to make $$$). You can play with what I have up at http://alpha.semanticgap.com/ .
Tell me what you think if you do check it out. Bloggish type views are planned along w/ newsletter management and other stuff.
WordPress, as mentionned above, is really powerfull and simple. I use it for blogs, static sites, as well as sites with a mix of static+news-based pages.
Thanks all for the feed back. I realised that I should have stated my needs a little better.
Drupal seems to be the one closest at hand at this point, the theming system seems really nice and the plugin system seems well designed.
Will post a second post when I’ve had time to test around a little bit more.
Good Lord, everyone suggests a different CMS.
One thing I like about Drupal is their large community. One thing I don’t like about Druapl is their lack of Jabber support. An earlier poster mentioned “early support”, but if its still early then there has been no change in a year so I’d write that comment off. I liked Drupal but its overkill for me personally.
I’d 3rd Wordpress as a really flexible tool with tons of plugins.
Another one that I’ve been looking at lately is ModX (http://modxcms.com/). It’s all AJAXy so therefore it must be good! (tongue in cheek). It does look good though.
btw: http://modxcms.com/ is another version of http://www.etomite.org/
Hi!
Isn’t there any site where different cms are compared?
I’m also searching for a good one.
Martin
Martin, as mentioned above:
http://opensourcecms.com/
It looks very likely that I’m going to go with Drupal though. I will post later about reasoning for this.
Well, I’ve been all around the CMS-world and the best combination of usability and power I’ve yet to find is drupal. Drupal is very effective for community sites, but works very well for other things as well. Drupal is actually more of a CMS framework - take a look at all the modules at drupal.org if in doubt.
Drupal is used in many places for many different purposes.
A bunch of nice drupal-sites to look at:
http://guadec.org/
http://appel.nasa.gov/
http://www.cialog.com/
http://www.ecademy.com/
http://www.sudden-thoughts.com/
http://www.terminus1525.ca/splash.html
Enjoy