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Hello. Looking for a good CMS, I also found this one - it had very positive comments. I have installed drupal and joomla and find them overwhelming and slow in response time. I am not a newbie at computer work and made a couple of websites in Net Fusion and RapidWeaver. I was now asked to take over o community site, originally created in drupal but ugly and malfunctioning. All I need is:

Publish articles in public and "registered user only" environment including inline images

Provide a nice forum

Provide article category for registered users with comments capability (something like user blogs) including inline images

Be able to influence the graphical interface with own design

Optionally, I would like to provide private messaging and private photo galeries

Good response time on an AIX (IBM Unix)

I do not expect you to spend time on detail answers but would appreciate yes/no to my needs.

Thanks

Lanny

http://www.czechback.org

Welcome Lanny !

Here are some informations, but beware I am not authoritative on them. So please try by yourself rather than just trust me. And of course expect other answers.

Lanny wrote: Publish articles in public and "registered user only" environment including inline images

Core + front end users (FEU) module + users' content module

Provide a nice forum

external forum integration module

Provide article category for registered users with comments capability (something like user blogs) including inline images

Not sure about categories.
Comments "like blogs" with comments module.

Be able to influence the graphical interface with own design

Sorry, you can't influence... you make the design you want implemented with the code you want (see template management)

Optionally, I would like to provide private messaging and private photo galeries

No idea on these. Hopefully it is optional.

Good response time on an AIX (IBM Unix)

There are tips to improve performance if needed.

About the features :
Please read the documentation, have a look at the modules, see the module manager, the help it provides, the messages in the forums...

Happy comparisons !

PM

Thank you for your response.

I have impatiently downloaded and installed the product and have gone through it. I do not think that external forum is acceptable - it means that much more CSSeditting I would have to do.

there is a forum module which is integrated directly to cmsms but I haven't tested it myself yet..