[Sussex] Content Management System advice please!

[Paul Graydon]

Hmm..  my personal preference is Joomla, and has been for a while.  Only 
hassle I really have with it is the pain-in-the-neck that it can be to 
integrate it nicely with a forum which would be nice.  There are modules 
and stuff to help, but they can be interesting or require hacking the 
Joomla code, which promptly gets over-written the next time its patched up.

Dominic Humphries wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> the diving club I'm a member of has asked me to set up a club web page 
> for them. I've grudgingly agreed to do it (done it before, didn't want 
> to get lumbered with it again) on the understanding that I will *not* 
> be maintaining it after setting it up.
>
> I was originally hoping that I could just show somebody how to use NVU 
> or the like so they could just update the thing manually every now & 
> again. But the list of "Can we have..?" requests got a little bit big 
> for that...
>
> So what I'd ideally like to set up is a website that has a calendar 
> that shows planned trips, with the ability for users to add new trips 
> & sign up for existing ones; some sort of blogging software for trip 
> reports to be published; a mailing list that people can subscribe & 
> unsubscribe to themselves (it's all done by hand right now); and a 
> password-protected area for the internal club stuff we don't want 
> non-members to be able to access.
>
> And all done via an interface that I can teach a bunch of non-geeks to 
> admin easily, and that a typical new member can sign up for without 
> any trouble.
>
> Not something I've had to do before: I usually only set up a webpage 
> for me to modify & other people to look at. But there seem to be a 
> whole bunch of CMS things installable via Fantastico on most hosting 
> services that say they'll do the job.
>
> 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...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Dominic
>
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