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@TaurusSep 17.2005

what is most convenient, handy, powerful Content Management System for website managent? Only free, open source solution. php, mySQL based.
I do not need forums, blogs, chats. For small company website, products and services description/presentation. Its preferable based on convenient and easy configurable layouts, allowing build website.

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@FangSep 17.2005 — #Try them out: http://www.opensourcecms.com/

@AlbatrossNov 22.2005 — #I've found opensourcecms.com to be rather difficult to navigate. Any ideas to combat that problem? Suggestions?

@JayMNov 23.2005 — #I've found opensourcecms.com to be rather difficult to navigate. Any ideas to combat that problem? Suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Hmm... Shouldn't be that difficult.

If you're looking for CMS's, do the following:

Go to the website (duh):: In the navigation on the left you will see "CMS Demos Menu" :: Underneath that you will see "Portals (CMS) :: Click on that and it should expand all the CMS's :: Select a CMS of your choice :: A new page will appear with the selected CMS :: At the top you have the choice of viewing "Front Page" or "Admin Login" :: Click on whichever one you wish and check it out! Very simple. ?

Regards

@TaurusauthorNov 23.2005 — #Most of mentioned CMS is clumsy, inconvenient things, overloaded with unnecessary options, etc, etc. I tried it- bad, very bad.

Any suggestions?

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — #Never tried them but they seem to be quite simple to use and implement:

http://www.cms-center.com/

http://rodin.lot23.com/

@rincewind456Nov 23.2005 — #Most of mentioned CMS is clumsy, inconvenient things, overloaded with unnecessary options, etc, etc. I tried it- bad, very bad.

Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Build your own!

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — #Build your own![/QUOTE]
That would be another solution ?

@TaurusauthorNov 23.2005 — #And this is all you can offer?

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — #Do you expect us to write one for you?

@rincewind456Nov 23.2005 — #And this is all you can offer?[/QUOTE]

No, there are hundreds of them out there, all competing to see who can add the most features, take a look at http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Content_Management/index.html and you'll find 676 of them, try them to your hearts content, BUT you will most probably die of boredom before you get through them all.

The only way (unless you are very lucky) to get what you want is to write it youself, it's not that hard once you have defined what you want exactly.

@JayMNov 23.2005 — #And this is all you can offer?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Your choices are you either look at the CMS's at the suggested websites, or you build your own. No one will write you a CMS. At least not for free.

Best of luck.

@JDM71488Nov 24.2005 — #i agree with build your own. once you know basic php/mysql functions you're all set. this way the one you make will be EXACTLY what you need... you could tell me all day long what you need, but will you understand the one i make you like i do? no...

@TaurusauthorNov 24.2005 — #I got a CMS. It does do which it should do. I have one note: there is a Image Manager which upload pictures from hard drive into website. When I upload some image which already exists in "Images" folder (with same name), Manager just overwrite existing one. Usually, there need be standard message alert shown, like "The picture.. already exists. Do you want to replace it?" -same as in Windows prompts.

What you think about this? Is this small lack? However, I can ask coder add this option, is this really important?

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — #Well, it depends, if it's only you using the CMS you might leave it that way, since you know about this thing.

Which CMS is it anyway?

@TaurusauthorNov 24.2005 — #Yes, only I use this CMS. This is InSite CMS,

http://www.mediaparks.lv/eng/services/products/content_management_system/

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — #Well, then you have to see for yourself if you can be careful enough each time you upload a file.

But if it happens a few times, i'd advice you to implement a file name comparison, or to pay someone to do it for you, or to send flower to someone who will do it for you

@TaurusauthorNov 24.2005 — #Sometimes I just replace one and the same file with corrected file(optimized size, etc, with the same name). Its normally.

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — #Yes, but it might happend that you do it the other way around

@flapjack50Nov 24.2005 — #Students at our school use Mambo and they like it. I have read a lot about it but never tried it.

http://www.mamboserver.com/

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — #the thing with mambo, is that it's a full CMS, although it's pretty simple to use,

i believe taurus was looking for a simple one

@Bryan_GFeb 04.2007 — #Yes. Your choices are you either look at the CMS's at the suggested websites, or you build your own. No one will write you a CMS. At least not for free.

Best of luck.[/QUOTE]If I'm not mistaken, he never asked for anyone to write anything. He just wants an opinion on what script, of the thousands, would be the best for his needs.

I've tried many different ones, and like he said, the problem is that most are extremely large and loaded with all kinds of stuff that's not needed.

I'm thinking he was just trying to get feedback from people who have tried these different scripts so he could decide what he can use.

As rincewind456 said, there are hundreds, so rather than spend months trying out hundreds of scripts, it would be nice to get some suggestions to at least narrow down the choices.

I also am looking for a solution for CMS that isn't going to place 100's of megs on my site giving me it's own look and offering tons of stuff I don't need. I just need a one page CMS. Then I can use something like this to integrate it into my site:

<?

include 'xheader.php';

include 'news/index.htm';

include 'xxfooter.php';

?>
[/QUOTE]

@rincewind456Feb 04.2007 — #Blimey this is resurrecting an old thread :-)

I'm thinking he was just trying to get feedback from people who have tried these different scripts so he could decide what he can use.[/quote]

The problem is that everyone has there own opinion of what is good for them, it may be diametrically opposite to what you or Taurus wants.

If as you say you want a cut down very simple CMS then your best option is to build one yourself. Because as has been mentioned in this thread most of the free ones out there are either bloated or not a fit for what you want.

@LiLcRaZyFuZzYFeb 04.2007 — #My god, it's full of dust!

@TaurusauthorFeb 08.2007 — #Right, I never asked for anyone to write anything for me ? And yes, I just wanted to know some opinions about good CMS..

I think I know what I need. For personal website and for small business website I would choose [B]Joomla[/B]. It have good support and its free. For personal blog I use [B]ExpressionEngine Core [/B]from http://www.pmachine.com. Its also free. Its a highly flexible, feature-rich web publishing system that empowers individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to create dynamic, content-driven websites.

For personal blogs only, I would use [B]WordPress[/B], it have large selection of good looking layouts. So I would use one of these CMS. More then enough for me.

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