[Glastonbury] website

[Sean Miller]

Sean Miller wrote:

> Just a quick note to those who were not at yesterday's meeting that we 
> agreed to migrate the website away from Mambo -- am currently looking 
> at some possibilities, but phpwebsite is one that I quite like... 
> anybody have any opinions on CMS/recommendations? Would be great to 
> hear about some "new" ones that I have not yet encountered.

This morning installed phpwebsite and postnuke... the former 
(phpwebsite) is very pretty, and comprehensive, but the admin interface 
is not intuitive.... for example, I cannot for the life of me figure out 
how to set up the front page blocks -- I don't want rss feeds at the 
bottom of the page, I want them on the right... doesn't seem to be easy 
at all.

Postnuke seems much easier to customise/configure, but it doesn't have 
all the modules by default that I want... got to go to work now, but 
when I get back tonight I shall investigate installing additional 
modules (eg. calendar, rss) into postnuke and (assuming it works well) 
will look to theme the site etc.

Another option is Xoops which looks very promising, but I recall from 
the past that the learning curve to administrate that one is quite 
steep... was a while ago, though, and it may have improved.

At the moment postnuke looks like a good possibility -- as I said 
yesterday, though, if anybody has any recommendations, or nightmare 
stories of previous experience with any particular CMS, then please do 
shout.

Sean