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I'm implementing an online repository of articles, several thousand of them on a low traffic site and I need the following features:


1. Ability to list PDF files (as direct links) along with (links to) HTML content.

2. A tag based search feature and the ability to keyword tag pdf files (not essential but would be very welcome)

3.  Low learning curve for installation and configuration (I'll be doing it and I have a very low frustration threshold sadly - I'm a joomla refuge)

4. Categorisation: I'll need around 12 categories for the articles, some articles will belong to more then one category.  Is this possible without having to duplicate content.

User permissions and extra features not important. Only one tech savvy admin person will be using this. Also, any recommended books ?

Thanks

moonroot wrote: I'm implementing an online repository of articles, several thousand of them on a low traffic site and I need the following features:


1. Ability to list PDF files (as direct links) along with (links to) HTML content.

No problem

moonroot wrote: 2. A tag based search feature and the ability to keyword tag pdf files (not essential but would be very welcome)

not sure if CMSms supports this, as I've never needed this feature, so I've never paid attention

moonroot wrote: 3.  Low learning curve for installation and configuration (I'll be doing it and I have a very low frustration threshold sadly - I'm a joomla refuge)

lots of refugees here... welcome!

moonroot wrote: 4. Categorisation: I'll need around 12 categories for the articles, some articles will belong to more then one category.  Is this possible without having to duplicate content.

No problem, but you won't be able to use the core News module, as it only supports one category per article.  Use CGBlog instead.  Designed for blogs, but very flexible and lots of people are using it as a "news" module.

moonroot wrote: Also, any recommended books ?

Haven't read either one, but two that I am aware of are:
http://www.duketown.eu/shop/_catalog/cm ... with_cmsms
and
http://blog.cmsmadesimple.org/2010/03/1 ... ers-guide/

Thanks jmcgin51, Thats really helpful.

In particular the advice on using the blog module to allow for multiple categorisation of one article. If anyone knows of a pdf/html article tagging feature that would be very useful.

Also, has anyone here had experience with expression engine, how does it compare ?

Thansk