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Is CMSMS a suitable replacement for a Drupal 4.7 web site?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:29 pm
by maagnh
I am a network admin for a small company(20 people) and we currently have our web site running on Drupal 4.7

www.nfgsales.com

The users and myself are really not happy with Drupal, or at least the version we have, and it would cost us way too much money to have the web designer upgrade us to the latest version of Drupal.

Is CMS easy enough for a techie like me to setup and "imitate" the structure of our Drupal based site even though I only have basic html skills and no php knowledge?

We have app. 3000 pages of content and expect to add another 3000 over the next few months. It's technical info with very little graphics and dynamic content. It needs to be easy for end users to add and modify content without html or coding knowledge.

I would really appreciate your opinions.

Re: Is CMSMS a suitable replacement for a Drupal 4.7 web site?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:25 pm
by maagnh
Let me add a little more detail that may help explain what I am most concerned about.

In our current Drupal site we can create a page of content and then specify where we want that page to show up. Sounds simple enough and CMSMS does the same thing but...............in Drupal we can specify multiple places or categories that the page can show up in. So our navigation menu structure can take you to the same single page via several different paths.

Perhaps CMSMS can do the same thing it just does it in a different way or place and I'm not seeing it?????

From what I can tell this would be the only obstacle for us to overcome in order to switch to CMSMS, that and having to re-enter all of our content.

Re: Is CMSMS a suitable replacement for a Drupal 4.7 web site?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:52 pm
by Pierre M.
Hello,
maagnh wrote: Perhaps CMSMS can do the same thing it just does it in a different way or place and I'm not seeing it?????
Give a try to the "link" content type.

Pierre M.

Re: Is CMSMS a suitable replacement for a Drupal 4.7 web site?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:09 pm
by maagnh
BINGO!!!

I can't believe it was that easy!!! I just tested it on the local test install of CMSMS and it worked perfectly, imitating the exact same end result as on our Drupal site.

Thank you very much for the help.