[Hidden-tech] Renamed: Content Management Systems

[B. Kimo Lee]

Hi Techies,

Here's a link to a wealth of info regarding the huge variety of CMS  
software available. If you've got a packaged CMS product, create an  
account and register it.
Here's the link:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org

I think we all agree that the needs of customers are equally as varied  
as the CMS at the above site. Matt mentioned Contribute which is great  
for many sites built in Dreamweaver. A comparable and decent  
open-source version might be something like WebGUI, which seems pretty  
cool and is well supported.  Mambo or the Nuke variants are great for  
community portals, with Mambo being a bit more adaptable (in my  
opinion) to some corporate applications and having a huge developer  
community. But there are many much more specialized types of CMS. Dan's  
doing some really great custom stuff, which for many companies is the  
only answer.

So, the cost-savings benefits of open-source versus customization  
capabilities come into play as well as the specific needs of the  
customer when evaluating a CMS. Most programmers subscribe to the maxim  
of why write code from scratch if you can re-purpose it from already  
written code. I realize I'm preaching to the choir here. Anyway, I hope  
that link above is useful to somebody.

On a related note, it will be interesting to see how Adobe's buyout of  
Macromedia will affect Dreamweaver and Flash. I'll start another thread  
on this topic.

Best regards,

Kimo Lee



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On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Wesley Rosner wrote:

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> I would like to toss my two cents in here and say that many of these  
> CMS systems are not the solution at least for some of our clients.   
> While CMS systems do ease the pain of maintaining a web site for a  
> large site they are typically still fairly unwieldy.  I have recently  
> been coupled the terms Content Management System with Dynamic  
> Publishing.  The systems we put in place usually provide fairly  
> specific meta data for the specific type of content.  This allows us  
> to put together dynamic templates/pages that draw on a variety of  
> content by using and cross referencing of keywords or other meta-data.  
>  I am certainly pro CMS and pro open-source, but find those solutions  
> don't always meet the real needs of my customers.
>
> -Wes
>
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Daniel Fried wrote:
>
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>> Sorry for the rename, I think we're getting off the original subject
>> though...
>>
>> One caveat to your description Mark...
>>
>> Not all CMS's support or require editing through the browser (or even
>> necessarily refer to websites, but that's a different issue).   
>> Macromedia
>> makes a product called Contribute which is an offline CMS.  Also, a  
>> number
>> of Blog software packages support editing through external  
>> applications like
>> w.Bloggar which run on your system, I'm sure other CMS's support this  
>> kind
>> of interface as well.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of  
>> Mark
>> Bucciarelli
>> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:01 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Looking for reasonable Web host
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>> Bobbi Melville wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone explain what you mean by "content management?"
>>
>> content = web site text and graphics
>> management = add/edit/delete content via your browser.
>>
>> Typically, the web site admin can define user/password login accounts
>> for people that are allowed to edit the site.
>>
>> Many systems provide control over editing capabilities; for example,
>> your press agent login can only edit pages under  
>> http://yoursite.com//news.
>>
>> More advanced systems allow you to define roles by login account; for
>> example, "contributor" and "editor".  A contributor may upload  
>> content,
>> but that content is not made live on your site until an editor  
>> approves it.
>>
>> This site is great:
>>
>>     http://www.opensourcecms.com/
>>
>> They have free on-line demos for many many Free Software content
>> managment systems; for example, the WordPress demo is here:
>>
>>      
>> http://www.opensourcecms.com/>> index.php?option=content&task=view&id=144
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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