CMS recommendations
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- dMullins0
There needs to be a god damn CMS thread. There's a new "OMG WHAT CMS TO USE???" thread every day.
- ukit0
I'm curious though, do people feel like they have to stick with PHP? Because Django is a great solution, it's what this site is built with in fact.
Or what about Ruby on Rails?
- ukit0
In all seriousness, I think Wordpress is great, interface is top notch, but like you say it's really best suited to either blogs or smaller sites.
If you need something slightly more robust I think EE offers the best balance in terms of ease of use, community support, extensibility.
Just be sure to get Pixel and Tonic (Brandon Kelly's) extensions, they add some basic functionality that is pretty key - almost like the other missing third of the CMS.
- There are also tons of add ons over here:
http://devot-ee.com/…ukit
- There are also tons of add ons over here:
- lukus_W0
I miss geocities :(
- Stugoo0
Shame Geocities is dead :(
- seeessess0
www.modxcms.com, love it :)
- ukit0
- yerolda0
Dreamweaver editable areas
- ukit0
No love for Blogger?
- TheBlueOne0
Expression Engine all the way for the feature set you are looking for...
..Hey, how many Wordpress sites got hacked recently? *cough, cough
- mydo0
new features on wordpress move it further away from a blog platform and towards a CMS.
the new menu creator is scarily good and easy to use.i feel like telling most of my clients, what you need is a site built in WP in 5 mins as it's going to look better and work better than anything you can get for a few thousand bucks.
- ukit0
Still don't know what you mean. True they have their own proprietary tags for displaying content but you can bypass all that and use regular PHP if you want...and anyway that is only the display mechanism, it's just as easy to dive in to their functions and start tweaking stuff.
I think the learning curve might actually be the issue, I've worked with both of them pretty extensively and EE is definitely more flexible out of the box, although like you said it takes more time to get used to.
- Stugoo0
I dont like the way wordpress structures their site. I feel like the folders are just completely militant.
- and plus, if i wanted a blogging platform I would use one, I want a cms.Stugoo
- Haven't looked at Wordpress lately, eh?404NotFound
- Stugoo0
I dont like the way wordpress structures their site. I feel like the folders are just completely militant.
- Nightshade0
^ Without wanting to get too technical, I was creating a database of books, and wrote a complex template which displayed them. I needed to do something the EE tags couldn't do, so I had to completely re-write the template from scratch in PHP. Cost me a lot of time.
With Wordpress- because their functions are based on PHP, it's easy to output the data from their functions as objects/arrays, and manipulate it yourself.
- Just to be clear, they are all based on PHP - Wordpress, EE, Joomla and Drupal. Nothing too special there.ukit
- Sounds like you didnt pay attention to how EE works, not that EE is crapTheBlueOne
- EE is more about a custom design than reusing templates and themes like wordpress.jeremydouglas
- ukit0
^ What exactly do you think is stopping you from extending Expression Engine? It's exactly the same as Wordpress, just a PHP based CMS. Jump in and start extending.
- Nightshade0
Wordpress all the way. Clients find it easy to use, and there are so many plugins to extend capabilities. It's based on PHP too, so you can custom code anything that there isn't a plugin for.
I've heard bad things about Drupal and Joomla.
I tried Expression Engine - never again! Was such a pain to set up just to do basic things which Wordpress does out of the box. And the UI is horrible. But the worse thing was once you reach the limits of it's inbuilt functions - you can't extend them yourself with PHP. This one really put me up sh*t creek on a project.
- ukit0
Static HTML
- stewart0
Joomla
- Stugoo0
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