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Roguelazer Veteran


Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 1233 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject: To CMS or to not CMS? |
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Right now, my site is hand-coded from a template that I made myself. Well, that's good and fine. However, almost all of the business has been taken away from my site to a new site that uses a Content Management System. According to them, the old HTML/CSS is out, and PHP/XHTML with a CMS is in. Well, I'd rather not have to go against my original ideals, but it looks like I'm going to be forced to. What do you people think? _________________ Registered Linux User #263260 |
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Spawn of Lovechild Apprentice


Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 253 Location: Århus, Denmark
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shm Advocate


Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2380 Location: Atlanta, Universe
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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I definatly think that CMS are the wave of the future. |
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Gandalf the White Guru

Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 320 Location: Verdun, Canada
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Have to agree there, I've done professional sites using css and some using some form of cms, and by far the ones using a cms were much nicer, and much easier to maintain. |
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kraylus l33t


Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 648 Location: ft.worth.tx
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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forget about being l33t and use a cms. you'll love yourself for doing so. if you dont want to bother learning php and just want to have something that's functional and easy to make your own templates for, use nucleus.
http://www.nucleuscms.org/
super easy to install, super easy to mold the way you want. unlimited scalability too. my wife runs it at http://www.pinkpt.com/tno/. there's about 50 users that post things in several different sections. uber fast. you won't regret it.
i run it at http://www.ihatemypc.com/ (abandoned site soon to be revived). if you move your mouse just to the left pf any of the titles of any blog there's a transparent pixel that i've href'ed to the admin panel. i can edit any post on the fly. very handy.
you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
ryan _________________ I used gentoo BEFORE it was cool. |
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abzs2k Apprentice


Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 181 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Personally I hate CMSes. They are too common / not creative. But in business you do what you gotta do. |
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snerfu n00b


Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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I think tikiwiki http://www.tikiwiki.org works well for a CMS. _________________ Zaurus SL-5500 owner, UT2K4 gamer, Gentoo user
Viva la freevo! |
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lisa Retired Dev


Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 273 Location: York, UK again! Horray!
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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If you want to be hardcore you can use Everything as your CMS. I've got an .ebuild, but it's not quite finished yet and really only supports Apache 2. _________________ Distcc guide
Visit my website
I maintain Distcc, Ccache, Memcached, and some others (i think) |
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Roguelazer Veteran


Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 1233 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'd better quantify- I'd probably have to write this CSS myself. I have lots of specific needs, like automatic user addition and updates and junk. It'd be a bugger, but I could code up some php (expect lots of questions about php, mysql and e-mail interactions if I decide yes), but I dunno... You guys all seem to like them... _________________ Registered Linux User #263260 |
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Chickpea l33t

Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure if you found an answer to this question or not...I was thinking the same thing because I have CMS just for the convience of maintaining....but there are a few tradeoffs to the CMS. I think you could find some work arounds and make a nice theme/template and use that as your launching point.
The CMS system I decided on is Xoops. Very easy to install, great community (although they seem to be a lot of Microsoft Windows users), it is GPL ( I think...I may have to double check) and there are a ton of modules. You would be sure to find something that suited your needs. |
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