[Sussex] Content Management System advice please!

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Dominic

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:49:47AM -0500, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> So many, in fact, that I haven't the faintest idea which one to  
> actually install. Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo Open Source,  
> PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, TYPO3, Xoops... The list  
> goes on & on!
> 
> So: Can anybody give me some advice on what would best meet the needs  
> listed above? Their web pages aren't very helpful & I can't face  
> installing them one-by-one to evaluate them each in turn...

Don't use them much, but 2 things - Mambo (or Joomla as the open source
version is now called) is a very comprehensive CMS, but I've had some
trouble with as a sysadmin - it can end up hammering the database
server.

I've used a little CMS called CMS Made Simple
(http://www.cmsmadesimple.org).  Works pretty well, easy setup and has several
pluggable modules that you could use (have a look in the 'Forge' area
accessible from the Downloads page).  Last time I installed it, it had
managed to pack in a good number of features without getting bloated.

Hope this helps a little! :-)

Cheers
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Ronan
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