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Choosing a CMS

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:14 pm
by tsr
Hi!

I don't know if this is the right section, or even the right site for this kind of question, but anyhow, here is the question, if I should post it somewhere else please direct me to the right spot.

I've been asked to help a small non-profit organisation with the creation of a fairly small site.

We are still in the beginning phase of planning, so far we got:
- 3-6 sections
- about 20 seldom-updated 'pages' in 5-10 different languages
- some email-forms
- headlines in 5-20 categories
- some linkfarms (but organised in the correct section, eg car-links in the car-section and bike-links in the bike-section, not a linkfarm like yahoo or the like)
- onsite and off-site articles/papers/etc

The content is going to be administered by them I'm 'just' there to help them setup a system.

There are some plans on adding an internal forum/organiser type of thing to.

It's been a while (like 2 years) since I evaluted CMS's so I was wondering what you could recommend and why.

kind regards, and hoping for good feedback,
tsr

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:34 pm
by feyd
We've had several discussions on content management systems in the past few weeks/months.. I expect that little has changed since then.. so you may want to look up those threads.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:58 pm
by tsr
Ok, thanks, actually I tried to search for that kind of info, but I can't seem to ask the right question. I'll try again and if I need more help I'll post it here.

/tsr

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:57 pm
by John Cartwright
Write your own. :roll:

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:12 am
by vigge89
Jcart wrote:Write your own. :roll:
It takes some time if you want it to work and have some features :)

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:40 am
by patrikG
http://opensourcecms.com/

you can test most I know of there online. I would advise against ezpublish unless you have two Blade servers there, it's extremely resource hungry. Mambo would be nice choice, there is a multilingual extensions, but its not very good. If you're confident to spend some time to work your way into the messy sourcecode of Mambo (it could be worse, but it's quite bad) and are confident in your PHP skills and software architecture then you can add that part yourself. Multiple languages client-side is usually what distinguishes OS-CMS from commercial ones.

If you want to write your own: you'll need templating, otherwise you'll be facing a nightmare of maintenance. Make the client aware that they'll need to spend some money on this as development time can be quite considerable and working for nothing hasn't put bread on anyone's table, yet.