Why CMS made simple? Topic is solved

[BoHendriks]

Love the Ben Throttle avatar

Hahaha yea .. the good old days
Thank you all!

[comfixit]

The reason CMSms exceeds all others is they hit the right target IMHO. Other CMS's try to be the ultimate community site with the most features.

CMSms says were going to be the ultimate CMS for straightforward websites that comprise 95% of what SOHO's need in a website, with just enough extra power under the hood to easily modify it to suit your client if they have additional needs.

Including only the features that are important in the core means there is less to learn and it's more user friendly.

Just an extremely well done CMS.

[Ata]

- Creating a template was very easy. Much easier than a Wordpress theme for example.

- Porting a somewhat complicated 3 level CSS drop down menu was very easy, done in 10 minutes (first try). Still haven't managed the same in Wordpress, although I tried hard.

- Nice URLs built in, very easy to make a SEO friendly site.

- Accessibility built in. Also valid XHTML output.

- Internal separation of CSS files is nice. Overall very organized and easy inside.

- Smarty is nice. I was sceptical at first (yet another language to learn) but it makes sense after a while, to use Smarty instead of straight PHP. Plus I rather learn something big like Smarty, that could be used somewhere else too, than something proprietary like i.e. Typoscript.

[rosgar]

If you're a designer, and when it comes to full control of designing a template, CMSMS is easy and simple. No need of frequent use of FTP or hacking the PHP files. The other CMS i tested...Drupal, needs a PHP hack and a problems of CSS; Mambo and Joomla- too many configuration (not easy). Typo3, nice but hard and needs a lot of understanding of Typoscript; Wordpress- needs a PHP hack if you don't want a blog-type look; MODx- easy and simple (another fav of mine); Textpattern; nice but hard; PHP-Fusion- needs a PHP hack; Typolight-another nice CMS but needs a little PHP hack; Website Baker- another easy-to-template CMS but little PHP hack.

[styson]

I tried a variety of CMS packages but CMSms was so easy to install and maintain vs the rest.  When I first chose CMSms I had a large evaluation criteria from a client of mine and I spent a few weeks at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ reading about and installing any LAMP based CMS that hit most of my criteria.  CMS won the day.  Now I pretty much use it for all of my clients who are looking for more than 2-3 static pages.  Themes are easy to setup, adding content is easy, and adding and updating modules is a piece of cake.  It's faster than most in a shared environment and has a great dev team and community behind it.  What more can you ask for.  It is a tool that must fit the job so there are places where CMS might not be the best fit.  For my small business clients, it is a great match.

[conniec]

HI all,

I'm new here and thought I'd add my thoughts.  I've played around with Joomla and Drupal and am now learning about CMSMS.  I really LOVE this fast learning curve!

Here's what I've surmised.  CMSMS is great for small personal websites.  I'm a novelist as well as a web designer (but not a programmer) and I'm rebuilding my novelist website with CMSMS.  I am working on a Drupal community website, with lots of interaction.  Drawback:  I've been working on this site for months and it's still not up, due to the complexity of Drupal.  But Drupal has all the bells and whistles I need for the community site.  I have built a Joomla site that is an article/information repository that many people contribute to.  I love the easy front end on that one, but the small tier of permissions is a big negative.  That site is preproduction, waiting for Joomla1.5 to come out of beta.  Yesterday, I saw how fast CMSMS responds to needed changes so that's a big advantage CMSMS has over at least one of the CMS out there.

Thanks to all you make CMSMS available for us non-programmers!

[Funk-Thirteen]

Having played around with drupal for a few months I didn't like it. I the complex admin system gets quite annoying at times. If I was to take a week off from coding/designing I'd forget where and what everything was.

I had a look around the cmsms demo and it looks very good this is my 4th CMS in 1 and a half years I hope I can stick it out with this one. 

I guess time will tell though.