Is anyone else feeling CMSMS is more trouble than it's worth?

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

Also, 99.9% of all websites require SEO friendly URLs, still (last time I checked) it's not implemented in the News and Calendar modules. Yes, I can tweak the PHP code myself, but it will be gone once I upgrade to a new version of CMSMS.

It will be gone unless you submit your patch in the forge for merging in the core.

Have fun with CMSms

Pierre M.

[vaughnt]

I definitely don't feel that way. You can get stuck with any piece of software, but having used many different CMS's in a production environment, I can say without a doubt that CMSMS is my favorite. I've done (or assisted colleagues) in building over 100 CMSMS sites so far, and I don't plan to stop.  These range from complex sites with custom code, to basic sites with only a few pages.

[calguy1000]

Today I've spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to change the default hard-coded size of the Search input-box (don't want to change the module's php code).

You mean like this:

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#cntnt01searchinput {width: 20em;}

actually, the better way would be:

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<div id="search">{cms_module module='Search'}</div>

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#search input {width: 20em; }

The best way to style most templates is to wrap the module call in a div (or put the wrapping div inside the appropriate template).... and then style everything within that div.  Once people figure that little bit out styling anything in CMS is 10x easier.

[orbon design]

I agree with some of the comments about the lack of documentation of certain modules. Also I understand that a programmer prefers to program, and not to write good documentation for the *user*, designer, other programmers, and everything in between. I emphasise 'user' because often the documentation written is nothing more than a list of programmers geek speak, with no significance to the mortal user (or designer) of the module or software.  This I find true for many more OpenSource softwares. This is, IMHO, one of the most important reasons why OS is not so wide-spread as it could be.

However, I love CMSMS for any site I can make... i.e. because I can not code *any* PHP, I will not be making too difficult sites, with custom add-ons, and exciting user specific eye-candy.  I like to build very simple brochure-like sites, with good SEO. I am convinced that that is what 80% of companies want and need.  CMSMS is perfect for that! I've tried the more feature packed can-do-everything CMS's (Typo3, Joomla) but before I had the site up and running, my blood pressure was 20points higher...
CMSMS is a breeze to install, fill with content, and maintain! In this case, any lack of documentation is made up for by the forums and wiki's... 

[sonictrip]

I think the people that are complaining about CMSMS probably havent ever used any other CMS such as osCommerce, Zencart, DragonflyCMS, Mambo etc. coz if they had, they would have been over the moon when they tried CMSMS, nuff said.

Noobs are never going to find any of this stuff easy...

[Pierre M.]

Hello all,

FYI documentation is moving along with 2.0, see http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 044.0.html

Pierre M.