[HLUG] Looking for CMS system

[george at dicenews dot com]

i'm gonna learn Plone
because it can do little sites and huge sites,
i dont want to waste my time learning lots of new things
so im leapfrogging wordpress, joomla etc
and moving straight to plone...
and theres help at HLUG aint there?

i might even buy a book about it

george

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Smedley" <smedley358 at btinternet.com>
To: "Herefordshire GNU/Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Looking for CMS system


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> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:27 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>> I am in the market for a CMS system which is easy to use.  I will be
>> installing it, but someone else completely will be doing the designing
>> of the pages etc - this is a teenager with average computer skills, who
>> is interested in designing a website for some projects I am involved in.
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>> I have seen 3 sites named:
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>> http://www.joomla.org/
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>> http://www.mamboserver.com/
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>> http://plone.org/
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> Hello Andrew,
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> We use Plone. It's easy for end users to use, but there is a small
> amount of learning on the admin side for you to set it up. Once
> done, you can do a fair amount to it with CSS - I'd recommend a
> good look at some of the example sites linked from plone.org
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> Do you really need a full CMS, with control of workflow, and
> fine-grained ACLs, though? WordPress can be stretched to do
> quite a bit, and is easy to tailor for the look you want. However
> you do have to keep a sharp lookout for secuity advisories.
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> Regards,
>
> - Richard
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