CMS Made Simple: Is this CMS for Me? Answer: Yes It Is [Solved]

[EGS]

Hi everyone.

I am not very familiar with CMS Made Simple, but found it some time ago and bookmarked it. Today, I am finally in need of a quality, open-source CMS that will fit my needs. I am wondering if that CMS could be CMS Made Simple, so to find out, I am compiling a list of what I need as the CMS complete features aren't listed on the website. Please, if you know about this CMS, tell me if this CMS will be suitable for my needs.

I want to ideally use this CMS for my e-commerce website, and I need to be able to...

• Create users and different user groups with different permissions (permissions can be totally customizable?)
• Create categories and subcategories.
• Create content pages in categories and subcategories.
• Search-Engine Friendly URLs (can be manually inputted such as if I want thisname.html or this-name.html page).
• Edit meta tags throughout the site and its pages..including main page
• Control over page templates
• Assign some user groups to be able to add content to specific categories as well as some usergroups to be able to add, edit, delete, and ban users.

Is this CMS right for me? Also, is there a live chat extension that I can offer live chat on my site (wasn't sure what it meant by live chat on the main page), and any good ticket system extension with this CMS?

Thank you in advance for your replies!

[GraemeS]

Create users and different user groups with different permissions (permissions can be totally customizable?) -yes  (feu users)

Create categories and subcategories. -yes (catalogger module)

Create content pages in categories and subcategories. -unsure though sure will be possible with feuusers/admin

Search-Engine Friendly URLs (can be manually inputted such as if I want thisname.html or this-name.html page). - yes (pretty urls)

Edit meta tags throughout the site and its pages..including main page - yes

Control over page templates - yes (template manager)

Assign some user groups to be able to add content to specific categories as well as some usergroups to be able to add, edit, delete, and ban users. - yes admin

Is this CMS right for me? Also, is there a live chat extension that I can offer live chat on my site (wasn't sure what it meant by live chat on the main page), and any good ticket system extension with this CMS? - unsure though sure possible either on own or through forum module or another module feature linked into feu

[calguy1000]

* Create users and different user groups with different permissions (permissions can be totally customizable?)
  In CMS the frontend users and backend users are seperate..... backend (admin users) are controlled completely
  through a permissions system

* Create categories and subcategories.
* Create content pages in categories and subcategories.
  In CMS this is called the 'page hierarchy'... and you can create this any way you want

* Search-Engine Friendly URLs (can be manually inputted such as if I want thisname.html or this-name.html page).
  Pretty URLS are not enabled by default but are supported.  You can control the 'alias' to each individual page
  but a default is supplied

* Edit meta tags throughout the site and its pages..including main page
  Yes

* Control over page templates
  Complete control over page templates

* Assign some user groups to be able to add content to specific categories as well as some usergroups to be able to add, edit, delete, and ban users.
  In CMS the frontend users and backend users are seperate..... allowing frontend login, etc. is completely different then allowing people who are allowed to view your site.

  In the admin there is a 'default' permission set for each newly created page, and it can be set to allow aditional editors.  However.  A permission for creating new pages or modifying any page exists and that can be applied to a user group.    There is currently no hierarchical permissions model in CMS

[EGS]

I want to have the ability to create usergroups for the back-end of CMS Made Simple. I want some of these usergroups to be able to add content and other usergroups not to. I do want some usergroups to be able to administer other users/usergroups as well [excluding admin] - is this possible?

And page hierarchy...does this support categories AND subcategories?
Thank you.

[Pierre M.]

Hello KJ,

I think you should see by yourself on a fake hosting.

BTW, hierarchy has no limit : cat/subcat/subsubcat/subsubsubcat/...

Pierre M.

[EGS]

Just trying to decide whether or not to choose CMS Made Simple or Drupal...
Your thoughts? And reasoning?

[alby]

Just trying to decide whether or not to choose CMS Made Simple or Drupal...

Test in local PC, here there a ready-made windows test server with cmsms 1.2.2 preinstalled

Alby