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- webresources, on 11/06/2008, -0/+21Very well choosen list. Concrete5 is a really different CMS. It works great both for developers & end users.
Sava is a also a great one built with Coldfusion (http://www.gosava.com/). - AndrewLeon, on 11/06/2008, -10/+19I'll stick with Drupal thanks
- writr, on 11/06/2008, -2/+10For me wordpress can't be beat but if I wanted to move away from the standard blogging platform to create more of a news site or other content site these look very promising. However, Sliverstripe CMS really reminds me of wordpress.
- annjay, on 11/06/2008, -2/+10This is really a great list with few new CMS for me. No doubt, EE is one of the top as it is in the list. I used crushyCMS and Symphone before and found them useful.
- Kebie, on 11/06/2008, -0/+7Try running a large 2000+ page website on wordpress or movable type, they are not really CMS's they are blogging software, with 40+ staff logging in and multiple editors, or even Drupal.
Problem with CMS systems is that non do everything right and all are missing a lot of requirements that people want. As the web programmer I don't want to get pigeon holed and stuck in a CMS implementation, and I want to be easily be able to plop in code on certain pages and hide it from my users.
The editors want track changes, roll backs, and approval system work flows with multiple levels of permissions.
While the 40+ staff actually updating their content that only know how to use word want something simple to use, and most of these CMS systems just implement poor WYSIWYG editors that are seen in many web applications. This is usually the deal killer for me on a lot of them. Because there is no point in implementing the CMS if the users are just going to give up and send emails of content to be changes directly to the editors after a couple months.
I like Contribute, because it isn't even a web interface and thus can implement a lot more features right now, but the fact it isn't a web interface at the same time is a killer for remote use of the application. I wish Adobe would implement an Adobe AIR contribute interface that could be purchased with the contribute license or something at the same time. - AmyVernon, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5Good stuff. I'm really just learning my way around all this, so this should be a good resource for me.
- jggube, on 11/06/2008, -0/+4Yeah, gosava doesn't need you to know Coldfusion per se to install it (just have to have a server that runs Coldfusion apps), but if you want to develop and customize - you would def need to pick up Coldfusion.
- brainnovate, on 11/06/2008, -0/+4This is a great overview. I have historically been a "roll my own" type guy when it comes to CMS's, but these give me reason to reconsider.
- aftk2, on 11/06/2008, -0/+4Hey thanks guys! :) This is Andrew, CTO of Concrete5 and lead developer/maintainer. We're wondering where all this spike in our demo traffic is coming from (along with some mysql connection issues - sigh - time to break the demo off into its own server, apparently) and we saw that this fine interview got dugg.
Thanks again for the kind words, and please check out the CMS. - MannaPC, on 11/06/2008, -0/+4we all see what you did there.
- medj, on 11/06/2008, -0/+4Great list. Another great one that I have used on my websites is Seditio. http://neocrome.net
- Sefus, on 11/06/2008, -1/+4I used to use ModX but moved to Expression Engine which is imho, much better.
Nice list. - Harrison88, on 11/06/2008, -1/+4Expression Engine is by far the best, especially now that they're moving over to the same structure as the CodeIgniter framework.
- 4ZERO1, on 11/06/2008, -0/+3sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven Content Management System. sNews is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It's easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. sNews consists of only one core engine file, one independent template file and its accompanying CSS stylesheet file, plus an .htaccess file that makes all URLs search engine friendly.
http://www.snewscms.com - mindofkennedy, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2I love MODX and in fact i know next to nothing about webby stuff and coding etc but as a CMS its just so straight forward much more user friendly and flexible than wordpress. My whole website is built in MODx and I am a very very happy guy. MODx is def. something i'd recommend.
- antiver, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2MODx looks great on paper but don't be fooled... the developers are a disorganized mess, and the project shows it. One side effect: the project has essentially stalled for the past two years or so. It's one of the most frustrating "CMS's" I've ever made the mistake of screwing with.
- brainnovate, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2Concrete5 looks incredible. I have never seen it before!
- joshcxa, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2I'm currently building a site in it at the moment. There are a few things to get your head around with setting up menus but overall it's not too bad.
- diatonic1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2My god I hate DotNetNuke. I guess it would be great if you're looking for a CMS that is slow, ugly, and will only run on windows.
- johncoswell, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2I've experimented a little with CMS Made Simple, and I've liked what I've seen so far. Don't know how well it scales just yet, though.
- badtiki, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Drupal is my all time favorite CMS
- mayhemchaos, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1I love me some ModxCMS
- mikehill33, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Rock solid list. Worth a DIGG!
- MisterKen, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Hmmm...forgot about Symphony and never heard of Concrete5.
SilverStripe seems(ed) like a good one but my experience with the install was so frustrating. Might have to try it again...
Six Revisions is rockin lately. Niice. - SilentBobSC, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1I'm still a big fan of DotNetNuke, particularly because of the massive amount of modules available from an extensive developer community. I have yet to find a solution that can't be solved using either the built-in modules, or one of the many 3rd party solutions. Not to mention, it's VERY user friendly, we have converted several frustrated Joomla users to DNN just because adding / editing content is much more straightforward than the Joomla Content/Frontpage manager. While it currently doesn't render the most efficient HTML, I've found my clients far more concerned over the actual functionality of the site rather than it's clean code.
- Svenagen, on 11/07/2008, -1/+2I write my own CMS.
- Catgofire, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Does Mephisto not count? :)
Edit: Actually I guess not, considering some of these comments. I guess I've never needed a complex CMS. - lightningrod220, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2EE isn't flexible enough in the long run, unless you just want a blog... there isn't enough variety when it comes to plugins. I recommend Wordpress for blogging, rather than EE. If you want a wide variety of content (not just blog posts), and polls, calendars, pages, etc., then Drupal is hands-down the best - if you have non-coding admins, they can rearrange menu items, content areas and more, without having to ask you the developer to implement it.
- HigherLogic, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1EE is extremely flexible because it's built on an MVC framework, making it really easy to develop plugins if you need them. EE simply blows away WordPress as well.
- adorkable81, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1EE is the way to go... EE 2.0 gonna blow everything else out of this world
- zeeneo, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2Does Silverstripe support deep links yet?! My experience with Silverstripe was awful.
- danielsan1701, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Your link got eaten: http://www.gosava.com/
FarCry ( http://www.farcrycore.org/ ) is also built on ColdFusion. - aftk2, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Check out C5. I really think that our blocks structure makes it easy to do what you're talking about...and it started out of a web development shop's need for a consistent toolset.
- siggyiggy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Thanks for including SilverStripe.
@zeeneo - nested URLs in progress - see http://open.silverstripe.com/log/modules/sapphire/ ...
Have a look at http://www.silverstripe.com/assets/video/cms.html and tell us what else you want. Register and add feature request ("new ticket") at http://open.silverstripe.com - 4degrees, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Plone is a good CMS and highly configurable. Extensions are a snap to write when you need some custom functionality. Be prepared to get hip deep in python code though, Plone and most of Zope is written in python.
- mentor972, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Me too. There are so many module developers that it just makes sense.
- SilentBobSC, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Check out www.dotnetnuke.com . It also depends alot on what you're trying to accomplish with the website and how your staff uses the site. For simple textual edits, the editor is very MS-Word like, and still allows access to HTML, and there is a wide variety of 3rd party modules avaialble for many specific needs.
PS - Contribute is the debil... actually Adobe is the real problem there. The minute I can find solid alternatives for their software (particularly Photoshop and no, GIMP doesn't count afaic), they can kiss my $$ goodbye. - djangoxl, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1No openACS (http://www.openacs.org)? You've got to be kidding me:-)
- brianez21, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Sux0r is a really neat concept in that it uses naive Bayesian filtering to run your CMS! Plus it's open source. Link: http://www.sux0r.org
- diggdatt, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1I like websitebaker too, but the last install gave me some bug that no one has responded to on the forums about some installation error :(
- mstrebe, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Plone 3 totally rocks. It takes a while to figure out all the stuff it can do, but it's so easy to use from the start that you don't really need to know everything that's underneath. The one-click installer for all three platforms and the built-in caching web server and database make deployment a piece of cake. And there are hundreds of plug-ins.
- diggdatt, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1You have it mixed up, they said Symphony (CMS, not the linux distribution), not Symfony (the framework)
- suprchunk, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I concur 100%. It stopped working after I left the site overnight. Same can be said for the awful Concret5 and Silverstripe.
- suprchunk, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1As was mine. I had to delete my account and remake it in order to get it working properly again. Don't see what Silverstripe did, but it was the only mod I made to the site.
- kevyn, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1snews you lose
- godsdead, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I have used many CMS's, theres way too much competition nowerdays, its mental!
I'v even writeen my own, i think im going to have to try all these! - kevyn, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1daft question: I can build and manipulate websites with css and html, but I would like to use a CMS rather than notepad++ - which of these is a good entry level CMS that's easy to setup and get going? I have no experience of mysql or PHP...
thanks in advance - inactive, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Drupal is very good but Joomla all the way. There are many more skins or templates available that a person can use to dress up their site without the aggravation or limits of WordPress. Try Joomla. It's awesome for sure.
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http://www.pixelperfectmedia.ca - kevyn, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1thanks for the tip - I have just started messing around with joomla
- amoeba, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Go Drupal! http://drupal.org
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