Need CMS suggestion
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:02 pm
I've searched for a few months now and have probably seen every open source CMS there is and I can safely say I really don't like Mambo or Jambo or any other knocks offs...
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
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