CMS Recommendations for Static Site Migration? 26
a-singularity asks: "I'm a Ph.D. student (and GSoCer) who also works for a campus extension organization to extend and maintain their website. They inherited the site from another organization at another institution. Currently the site is updated by editing very ugly, table-clogged HTML when someone requests it. The site maintains no separation of concerns, and has several poorly designed PHP scripts for database access. There are many CMS solutions out there, and while I've used a few (Drupal, MovableType), I'm not familiar with many other options. What is the best CMS out there for simple management of a medium-sized site with regular updates? What about ease of use, so all of those who might need to can submit updates?"
Hello. (Score:2, Informative)
Couple of notes. (Score:2)
OpenSourceCMS.com [opensourcecms.com]: Try before you.. install.
I use Textpattern for my security site, Security Engine [the-engine.org]. It is a bit awkward at first, but is a very nice CMS once you learn the basics of it.
Re:Couple of notes. (Score:1)
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ [cmsmatrix.org] will show you the rest, including commercial ones if you're interested (and considering the price of commercial CMSs, you're probably not) And it lets you compare based on the features you require.
Look at other universities (shibboleth) (Score:1)
For example, JANET unis in the UK using RoamNet, can login via a different domain, ie: username@domain, rather than just the plain user name, at via any RoamNet access point in the UK.
All of this is controlled via a number of different connectivities. Most noticibly unis are investing in Shibboleth (link: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ [internet2.edu] ), uportal, and similar things.
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Drupal or WordPress (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Drupal or WordPress (Score:2)
* internationalization - you know, one site in few languages.
* workflows - you know, like you have few editors, few translators, editor in chief (who can actually publish things when they are fully done and translated etc.)
* advanced st
Re:Drupal or WordPress (Score:1)
The performance is not too bad at all (comparable with other non trivial database backed PHP applications), especially when you use a PHP accelerator - and the current version has a static export feature which will help a great deal.
I run it on a 2.4Ghz Celeron with 512Mb of memory, it manages 8 or 9 pages per second with a PHP accelerator, and I don't use static caching (yet).
Obviously that's not gonna work for a high volume site, but as I said, it's consistent with the performa
For a comprehensive comparison of CMSes... (Score:5, Informative)
You're bound to find something that will fit your needs.
Re:For a comprehensive comparison of CMSes... (Score:2)
Have you considered a portal? (Score:2, Interesting)
A JSR-168 compatible portal might be a good solution. It would take care of things like single sign on, and they usually have a fair number of useful modules. You should be able to find some forum and wiki modules, among others.
These things take some substantial work to configure and set up, but once set up, they tend to work very well. You could look at Jetspeed or JBoss, for starters.
These modules are also (slowly) starting to become comodities, so you should be able to get lots of useful functionality
http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (Score:3, Informative)
While it only has php CMS it is a good place to start. This site has a demo of most of the CMS out there. You can try them and then a couple of hours later they will all be reset.
Here are my recomendations:
*Mambo - If you are trying to create a website.
*phpNuke (etc) - If you want a community site.
*Typo3, Phone(python) - If you have a larger site that needs more management, mulitple departments etc.
No Nukes! (Score:4, Informative)
The "nuke" family of CMS applications not only all look and feel more or less the same, they have a very bad rep for crappy code and a high number of security issues.
Drupal, Plone, Mambo. All EASY to set up and admin.
Though GeekLog seems to be a Nuke clone, I have heard good things about it.
Re:No Nukes! (Score:2)
I suggested she might want to avoid getting sucked into using a Microsoft-only product... I pointed out that Zope/Plone appears to be good enough for NATO, NASA/JPL, AARP, Lufthansa and the Governors of Texas & Hawaii, according to their lists of happy users.
Re:http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (Score:2)
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Re:http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (Score:1)
I agree fully with this statement. I have recently been looking at CMS's and this is really the only one that I have found that is easy and allows you to create a site that isn't just a blog. The module system is easy to use, and there are thousands of modules to download on http://mamboforge.net/ [mamboforge.net]
wiki wiki wiki (Score:2)
I can personally attest to the power of wiki.
Contribute (Score:1)
Note: This is n
Re:Contribute (Score:1)
Sitellite CMS (Score:2)
Being the lead developer of Sitellit
I don't see anyone that's mentioned it yet (Score:3, Informative)
Wordpress [wordpress.org] recommended by me.
CMS Made Simple (Score:2)
It is actually about managing content, unlike most of the PHP CMSes which are really more designed to be portal systems.
It's fairly lightweight, works with a variety of databases, is localized into a lot of languages, and is GPLed.
I got into this system after reviewing a whole big stack of other
CMS Recommendations (Score:1)
Roll your own (Score:1)
It seems like more work to learn and customise an existing CMS than it is to roll your own, developing it over time to meet your specific requirements, especially if you have a mix of static and dynamic content, the static content comes first, and you are already very familiar with XHTML and CSS.
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bricolage (Score:1)
Blog x Wiki? (Score:1)
I used drupal in other site tried to use the 'nukes' and similars and a lot of others.
I very biased to use Wordpress because it's simple to users, but I prefer a wiki who I think is much better than any CMS.
btw: textpattern.com is a good choice too.