Is there a way cmsmadesimple can be used for only news and article publishing?

[Chuky]

Is there a way cmsmadesimple can be used for only news and article publishing? I currently use a news and magazine publisher for this site http://www.businessdayonline.com . I believe the software that i used there has the same block and templating idea with cmsmadesimple. I was wondering if this can be achieved with a little more tweaking. News and article publishing software is in high demand . The cms software that i used for the site is quite good but its a bit costly for me now.So if one can get something like that but cheaper ,or opensource(smiles) , it would be great. Please let me know what u think

[cyberman]

I haven't tried this ... but I've looked at your site and I think, it should be possible (with some tweaks).

[katon]

The popular CMS for these purposes is Textpattern.  Personally I don't think it's good for well structured web sites, but for a news based web site it seems to be more appropriate. 

[Dr.CSS]

who writes the articles, someone that can get online and publish?
that looks like a bunch of news summaries which can each be styled to show only what you want,,, 1 for just article titles as links,, 1 that plus short summary,,those plus some morelinks,, just a bunch of news blocks.  yep can be done.

  mark

[Chuky]

The popular CMS for these purposes is Textpattern.  Personally I don't think it's good for well structured web sites, but for a news based web site it seems to be more appropriate. 

Please where is this Textpattern found?

[Chuky]

who writes the articles, someone that can get online and publish?
that looks like a bunch of news summaries which can each be styled to show only what you want,,, 1 for just article titles as links,, 1 that plus short summary,,those plus some morelinks,, just a bunch of news blocks.  yep can be done.

  mark

Yes Mark . And not forgetting blocks for categries as links too . I think cmsmadesimple has the same block and templating system . Coupled with cmsmadesimple's html_blob/globalblob, one can get a well structured news/magazine publishing site. I believe You guys in this forums can do this. Am watching this space 

[katon]

http://www.textpattern.com/
Let us know of your experience with this system!

[nils73]

I am running both - Textpattern and CMSMS and by now there are only little features that Textpattern offers which are not available for CMSMS. However I must admit that I prefer CMSMS over Textpattern ever since the new MenuManager has been released. If there were more blogging features like comments, moderated comments, etc. I guess CMSMS would be a good blogging software as well. But maybe I haven't been digging deep enough into the forge.

Regards,
Nils

[katon]

I have just uploaded comments 1.5 beta 2 with several bugfixes, please try it out and let me know how it works for you.  It has mail notifications and an admin area to edit and delete comments.

[nils73]

katon,

thank you. I will definitely give it a try! Are there any means to exclude spammers?

Regards,
Nils

[katon]

Yes, the new version has an optional captcha feature, which explains the size of the release 

[nils73]

Somehow I knew it must be CAPTCHA.

Sometimes I hate accessibility because you can not use CAPTCHA and other stuff then and now I am forced to find a different solution. Maybe I will combine FrontEndUsers and Comments then. *sigh*

Nils

[calguy1000]

Yeah, you could use FrontendUsers, and Comments wrapped inside some custom content tags.

[nils73]

calguy,

you just made my day! Yippieh!!!

Regards,
Nils