[Glastonbury] website

[Martin Biggs]

Sean Miller wrote:

> 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.
>
Have you considered phpnuke?  I have used it before and it is quite easy 
to set-up.  It does not come with a calender module but there are add on 
calender modules around.  It does support rss feeds out of the box.