Way to much bloat and what a complicated interface...if it takes me more than a few minutes to learn an interface...I am sure my clients too will struggle and loose interest...
I have only ever tinkered with phpWCMS and although it's GUI was amazing...it's codebase was the worst hack I've ever seen
Thats what you get when your a designer first and later become a developer out of interest or requirement...but hey...it's still a nice application...easy to use...but had some issues...
I'm currently designing a CMS of my own from the ground up model after phpWCMS...but I can't wait to get things up any longer...I've decided I have get things rolling now...or ASAP anyways
Soooo...
Considering the following criteria:
- open source
- threaded articles/resources/images/etc
- Multiple users with role based permissions
- XHTML/CSS support especially for frontend web pages (absolute MUST)
- Extendable...so like a new module or a realty listings module can be added easily or at least well documented...
Like I said...it's important that all pages generated by the CMS are 100% W3C compliant....if they dont' validate everytime...I'm not interested...
Extendable is another very important issue...I want a basic CMS which provides authentication, access control, resource (images/files) management, article management (pagination, etc) and the very minimum and using extensions of some sort I would like to provide additional funcitonality
- Search
- Realty listings (both backend and frontend)
Powered by smarty, would be nice too so I can easily change the appear of everything
Both backend and frontend powered by Smarty
So...does anyone have any experience using exsiting CMS's which would possibly meet my needs???
Cheers