jmcgin51 wrote:Suzanne,
You're not likely to find many other recommendations here, since this site is specifically about CMSMS. If you're looking for a CMS that is simple to install and to use, CMSMS fits the bill perfectly.
As for your thousands of pages - can you explain a bit more about WHY you have thousands of pages? For example, in FrontPage (and I can't even imagine managing a FP site with more than about 10 pages), you would have a separate page for each TV show, or for each actor/actress, etc. But in CMSMS, you could have a module such as Products or Cataloger or Company Directory set up so that each TV show/actor/actress is a "product" or "catalog item" or "company". This means that your entire site might have just a few true "pages", but the same content that you have on your current site.
CMSMS is extremely flexible; you will have a learning curve to move from FrontPage, but I think it will be worth the effort...
With all that said, you'll never really know if CMSMS (or any other CMS) can do what you want until you try it! You don't have to port your entire site over, just port a few bits and pieces, enough to see how it works and whether you like it.
Sounds like you are quite prejudiced against Frontpage. I've run my site on it for years just fine.
I was having some slowness problems recently, but moving some of the older archived pages into subwebs has solved that problem.
Everyone else is saying that there is no way CMSMS will work with such a large site. I don't want to bother to try it and learn it just to have it not work. That would not make much sense.
The main reasons I am looking for a CMS instead of Frontpage is that Microsoft no longer makes the program, and it's fairly expensive anyway, and so it its replacement, Web Expression. That means that every time we want to add content, one of us that knows Frontpage has to put it up. If I have a CMS then multiple users could have access to the site without having to know or learn or buy Frontpage.
As to why we have thousands of pages...my site has been around since the mid-90's and we cover about 60 shows as well as TV in general. The daytime pages are very popular, and each daytime show has daily transcripts, recaps and detailed summaries (dating back to 2000). That's on top of all the other content that all our shows have, such as puzzles, trivia quizzes, character descriptions, spoilers, news, links, etc. Each of these things has its own page. Each show has its own folder. Each links page, article, interview, puzzle, recap, etc. has its own page and subpages.
I have seen very simple types of CMS's when I used to host some of my site in places like Geocities, not to mention my own blog in Blogger. I was hoping to use something like that but....not sure if I can find something that will work now from what you guys are saying. I don't really understand what a module is or how to set up a CMS.
The main problem with such a large site is it takes forever to put a new design on all those pages. i was hoping to set up some kind of template in a CMS and then upload the content of the pages to some kind of template or framework, to make it much easier than using Frontpage...not just for old but new content.
Hope that makes sense...
