Re: CMS for simple content based websites.

On 10/17/06, Sanjay Goel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to create multiple websites with different templates. All these sites
> would be pretty simple only having content with no complex functionality.
> Can somebody suggest me a free/not so expensive CMS for this.
>
> The features I need are:
> 1. Easy Template Creation - Templates should easily be able to be created
> out of HTML files that my web designer creates.
> 2. In Context Editing - Something that WebGUI or Plone or Jahia provides is
> good.
> 3. Workflow - Content Approval workflow is a must.
>
> If its based on Java, it would be an added bonus.
>
> I have checked out lots of CMSes like Jahia (Expensive, bad at 1), Drupal
> (complex), Typo3 (bad at 3, not so good at 2), Mambo/Joomla (bad at 2) etc.
>

TYPO3's main disadvantages are that it is difficult to implement by
the casual user and requires more server resources (cpu, memory). It
is an 'enterprise' level cms that does not play well in a shared
server environment.

For (2), it has front-end editing which means the user can login and
add content to the pages directly without using the admin interface.
The admin interface is not that complex but you can remove access to
much of the functionality for simplification if the user is too
'overwhelmed'.

For (3), you can assign editing permission of specific pages to a user
and make sure that any page they do edit does not go 'live' until it
is approved.

_Nagita