CMS Made Simple Forums

Hello together

I realy hope this is the right place to ask, if not i apollogize.

Currently i try to get an overview about "CMS made simple", but i am unsure about many details.


What i am going to do?

I host a forum for "Bikers" in germany (not commercial) and i want to setup a Website with following features:

1. An Eventcalender, where people can join Events and people can read about upcoming Events
2. A Picture galery, where we can publish the pictures of our events
3. An simple News-Script
4. A way to link our Forum
5. A User-Map, where people can see, where our people come from


These 5 points are very important, and i need to know:

Is this possible (in an easy way) with your CMS-System?

I saw you have a lot of modules and it seems this CMS seems to be very handy to use. But i am very unsure, if i find stable modules to serve all features i listed above.

Every help is welcome, and i hope an experienced User can give me a little overview. 


btw.
I tested some bigger CMS like "Zikula", "Drupal", "Joomla" etc. but they are all to "heavy to use and to understand".


Regards
Axel

Have a look in the 'CMS Show Off' section http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/board,5.0.html and see what others have done the CMSms.

Some are better than others, some more involved than others, but collectively show what CMSms can do.

Fat Lizard

CMSMS can do everything that you've listed, BUT it may not do them all the way you want to without some programming. This means you either will need to know some PHP and learn a bit of Smarty, OR have a small budget set aside for hiring someone to write or modify a module for you.

I've done some pretty complex sites, requiring $3000+ worth of custom modules, but I've also been able to do quite a few sites without hiring any help - and my php/smarty knowledge was almost non existent when I started.

If you want to do it all yourself, start with the easy stuff, get a working site going, then slowly add the functionality you need. It helps to have a development server, or at least another install to test modules and changes on.

Hello,

I think CMSms (with some maintained modules) can do 1+2+3+4 out-of-the-box (configuration, parameters, templating but not programming). If there is no module for feature5 this one may require some handwork ; but may be there is some maintained module I'm not aware of.

If you have already tested Drupal and Joomla I think 1+2+3+4 deserves a 30 minutes try of CMSms to see by yourself.

Pierre M.