[Hidden-tech] Renamed: Content Management Systems

Ron Miller ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com
Sun May 1 11:51:57 EDT 2005


If you are interested in learning more, I've written several articles on 
this subject.

Open Source CMS Edges Toward the Mainstream
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7620&AuthorID=9


Contribute 3.0 Review:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1122/tec-contrib3-11-22-04.asp


Growing a Niche Business, an article about how a small business owner 
used Contribute to develop his business online.
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/columnists/2003/1201miller.html

Ron



B. Kimo Lee wrote:
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> 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:
> 
>>   ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
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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:
>>
>>>    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
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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-----
>>> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net
>>> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of  Mark
>>> Bucciarelli
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:01 PM
>>> Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Looking for reasonable Web host
>>>
>>>    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
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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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