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replytomk3

Other CMSes

Post by replytomk3 »

Hello

I am evaluating other CMSes to see what the enemy offers :)

I am concentrating on "simple" cmses with required large community or support.

I have rejected

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        * bloofoxCMS [http://www.bloofox.com]. Forum too small. Documentation too short. For tiny websites. Barebones but functional. Upgrade to CMSMS. requires mysql password
    * Clover Content - Simple CMS [http://clovercontent.com/]. Tiny, database hosted on their server.
    * CompactCMS [http://www.compactcms.nl/]. Too small. single developer, no modules, and no code editors.
    * DBHcms [http://www.drbenhur.com/]. Too small, no documentation.
    * Dynamic Content Editor [http://www.dynamiccontenteditor.com/] 404
    * Edicy [http://www.edicy.com/]. website builder, not cms
    * ExiteCMS [http://www.exitecms.org/]
    * ezContents [http://www.ezcontents.org/] ??? Tiny
    * EZRO [http://ezro.devis.com/] ??? Nothing on website
    * Falt4 [http://www.falt4.org/]
    * GuppY [http://www.freeguppy.org/?lng=en]
    * Irokez [http://www.irokez.org/project/en/]. tiny
    * JadaSite [http://www.jadasite.com/]
    * Jaws [http://www.jaws-project.com/]
    * Lanius CMS [http://www.laniuscms.org/]
    * Limeware CMS for Dummies [http://www.limeware-cms.com/index/menuID]. Tiny
    * Mura CMS [http://www.getmura.com/]
    * Phenotype CMS [http://www.phenotype-cms.com/]
    * phpComasy [http://www.phpcomasy.com/]
    * Pixie [http://www.getpixie.co.uk/]
    * QuateCMS [http://www.quate.net/quatecms]
    * Rapid-Website [http://4minweb.com/]
    * RunCms [http://www.runcms.org/modules/news/]
    * Sitellite CMS [http://www.sitellite.org/]
    * SkyBlueCanvas [http://www.skybluecanvas.com/]. upgrage to cmsms
    * sNews CMS [http://snewscms.com/]
    * Speck CMS [http://www.speckcms.org/]
    * Splash Frog [http://www.twinleafstudios.net/splash/index.html]
    * synType CMS [http://syntype.org/]
    * Terapad.com [http://www.terapad.com/]. website builder/hosted
    * TinX/cms [http://cms.tinx.dk/dk/home]. tiny
    * toendaCMS [http://www.toendacms.org/]. rejected
    * XHP - eXpandable Home Page [http://xhp.targetit.ro/]. No forum.
    * Zimplit CMS [http://www.zimplit.com/index.html]. tiny and not mature

And so far chosen

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    * CMS Made Simple [http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/]
    * concrete5 [http://www.concrete5.org/]. installed
    * Drupal [http://drupal.org/]. installed. immediate: new pages
    * e107 [http://e107.org/news.php. installed
    * Elxis CMS [http://www.elxis.org/]. installed
    * Joomla! [http://www.joomla.org/]. installed. immediate: password
    * Mambo [http://www.mamboserver.com/. installed
    * MemHT Portal [http://www.memht.com/. installed
    * modx [http://modxcms.com/]. should detect install automatically
    * phpFusion [http://php-fusion.co.uk/news.php]. installed. immediate: password, two passwords, and cannot login into admin. php fusion says to delete setup.php but if i do i cannot login as admin, it says there is no setup.php file
    * Textpattern [http://textpattern.com/]. install failed. no css or admin area.
    * TYPOlight [http://www.typolight.org/]. installed
    * WebAPP [http://www.web-app.org/]. can't install - perl?. should detect install automatically
    * Website Baker [http://start.websitebaker2.org/en/introduction.php]. installed
    * WordPress [http://wordpress.org/]. installed. Inflexible

Can someone tell me if I missed something?
Last edited by replytomk3 on Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Connie

Re: Other CMSes

Post by Connie »

hey, you checked a lot of systems!

As a very simple system which I liked for a long time and supported for a long time, but it is too small, I could mention CMSIMPLE

PIXIE is a system for very small fast pages, I used it for a website for a girl and she was happy with it.

Joomla! is the pure horror, no real valid code, no transparency, are there users (simple users) who understand that?
I do not know.. and I hated to work with it...
replytomk3

Re: Other CMSes

Post by replytomk3 »

Connie wrote: hey, you checked a lot of systems!
This is for a comprehensive web page, so I am trying to get all of them.

Connie wrote: As a very simple system which I liked for a long time and supported for a long time, but it is too small, I could mention CMSIMPLE
I think I saw this one. I will check again
Connie wrote: PIXIE is a system for very small fast pages, I used it for a website for a girl and she was happy with it.
Pixie seems to be a website builder and hosting platform as well. I will recommend this for beginners, but there is no lack of web site builders, and template-based hosting (ie godaddy). I cannot focus on that for now.
Connie wrote: Joomla! is the pure horror, no real valid code, no transparency, are there users (simple users) who understand that?
I do not know.. and I hated to work with it...
joombla, mambo, and drupal were included just for comparison sake. Don't worry, I am not running away from cmsms :)


Actually, other cmses will all be evaluated against cmsms (fe joombla). What I am trying to do is see if creating a website with those cmses is easier or harder than with cmsms.

Thank you Connie for feedback. I will appreciate help from other people as well on anything I have missed.
replytomk3

Re: Other CMSes

Post by replytomk3 »

any other comments?
Sonya

Re: Other CMSes

Post by Sonya »

replytomk3 wrote: any other comments?
What kind of the comments would you like? Comments for the applications in rejected or in chosen list? Additional CMS? I have worked with Drupal, Joomla, Website Baker, e107, Typo and Wordpress.

Drupal is just to heavy for small and middle websites. Not intuitive to use for the editors from my experience. But is better choice for larger projects created by webmaster with good programming knowledge.
Joomla is just nightmare. See comments above  ;D
Website Baker (some years ago :)) limited number of add-ons, inflexible design. Not sure, how good the actual version is.
e107 - "community" for one without any knowledge. Totally inflexible in design and configufation. Admin panel is not intuitive.
Typo - difficult to understand for the end users. TypoScript is something that I would like to forget. This system is often used by agencies. I suppose that the reason for usage of this system is to give to the customer the feeling, that CMS is something very-very-very difficult and he will NEVER be able to customize the system himself. This way the agencies can bind their customers.
Wordpress - is NOT a CMS. It is blogging system. Do not compare apples and oranges.  :P
Zoorlat

Re: Other CMSes

Post by Zoorlat »

Interesting project.
You might want to have a look at:
SilverStripe Looks interesting, has a good back end layout, and seems to be expanding. http://silverstripe.org/
and
Expression Engine Comes in both professional and free (for non-commercial use) version. http://expressionengine.com/overview/pricing/

Cheers
gap_tooth_clan

Re: Other CMSes

Post by gap_tooth_clan »

As much as I hate Joomla I have to fight for its corner a little bit, it is a very powerful system and is very customizable just look at flexxilease.co.uk. But some parts are plain just retarded, to create a page it has to be added to a menu. So a landing page has to be built then you add it to a dummy menu grab the link and remove from the menu. Its templating is fairly inflexxible too.

I am not particularly that experienced with wordpress but I had thought it could be bastardized into a cms? This is a wordpress site: http://skateboarding.transworld.net
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