Re: Content Management System suggestions?

From: "Aaron Birenboim", Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:42 AM

>
> I, too am a Drupal User
>         http://docwho.org/drupal
>         http://highdesertbirdclub.org/drupal
>
> I find that it is very quick and easy to set up sites that follow
> the above Drupal templates.  However, making it look like
> a regular site will take more work.
> Also, making pages have more custom content, like images, takes either
> a skilled admin, or users who are familiar with HTML.

  I'll keep my eye out for that.  A bunch of my content is howto docs with 
screen captures...  not sure if that's the kind of image content you are 
talking about.

> Note that on both sites, I did not make the entire site drupal,
> so that I could fall back on other WWW tools (or plain old static content)
> for situations where drupal was a challenge to use, or inconvenient.

  I've done sub-domains, in the past, to get a controlled space from a 
hosted section of website.

> If the above sites look a lot like what you want, go for it.
> They can be set up in a few short hours.
> A more customized look and feel that travel agents can update
> will be trickier.  I know that there are perhaps dozens of people
> in ABQ alone that make a living administering drupal sites.
> It can do a lot...  but takes some skill for that.
> I know you can do it if you want, but other CMS's might be
> worth considering if you do not want the site to look like
> a forum site, where most viewers tend to have accounts and log in.

  I'm looking for something that will do news, and docs (probably not quite 
wiki).  Joomla! and XOOPS were too complicated for the agents to update 
content themselves...

>              aaron
>
>> Jody Harris wrote:
>>> Drupal will let you do that. I've used Drupal for several years. It's
>>> very solid.
>>> ----
>>> - Think carefully.
>>> - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius)
>>> - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of
>>> Hippo)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ed Heron <Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]
>>> <mailto:Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       By 'in-band' I mean that if you're browsing the site and you
>>>     have rights to add/edit content, there's a button there to convert
>>>     the content to an edit widget, you make your changes, save and
>>>     you're at the modified page.
>>>            Joomla! and XOOPS make you go to an administraton app to
>>> add and
>>>     modify content.
>>>            I contribute to the CentOS wiki and I can create and modify
>>>     content from within the wiki.  I'd like that kind of functionality
>>>     in a CMS.
>>>
>>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>>         *From:* Jody Harris <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>         *To:* New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
>>>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>         *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:51 PM
>>>         *Subject:* Re: [NMLUG] Content Management System suggestions?
>>>
>>>         Define " 'in-band' content management."
>>>         ----
>>>         - Think carefully.
>>>         - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius)
>>>         - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St.
>>>         Augustin of Hippo)
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Ed Heron <Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]
>>>         <mailto:Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>              I've been maintaining our company intranet manually.  I'm
>>>             interested in sharing the work involved in creating and
>>>             maintaining the content.
>>>
>>>              I've installed Joomla! and XOOPS on test machines to
>>>             evaluate them.  Both use a separate interface for
>>>             maintaining the content.
>>>
>>>              Anybody know of a CMS that uses 'in-band' content
>>> management?
>>>
>>>             --------------------
>>>             Ed Heron
>>>
>>
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