cms

How to add classes for styling to Drupal when using menu_block?

I'm using the menu_block module in Drupal for my menus. This works very well, but I want my menu items styled as an image menu. This cannot be done nicely with the default settings - the menu items look something like this: <li class="leaf first menu-mlid-199"><a href="/this/is/some/nice/url" title="Homepage">Homepage</a></li> I'm gue...

Should a content management system be used for small custom projects?

I want to create a content-driven website. The two points that get to the heart of my question are: It will be a small and relatively simple site It will have custom data requirements This will be done in ASP.NET, preferably C#. Since I have the programming and database experience, I could roll my own without much problem. Given tha...

MVC - Creating new Views without adding Actions to Controller

I'm working on a mini CMS-like application using asp.net MVC 1.0 (I will upgrade it once 2.0 is released). Once feature I want, that is pretty vital to a CMS, is the ability for an admin to add pages to their site. Essentially, if the admin wants to add a page called "Links", I want them to be able to do so without having to go through...

Help building a rails cms

I want to build a cms from scratch on rails.... I want it to be as similar as it can be to wordpress. What tips can you give me?.. Should the admin part and the user part be completely separated as in a totally different app?.. or should all be integrated into one app?... How would you set it up??.. please be as specific as you can be. ...

Becoming a Web Designer: CMS, or by hand

I'm biting the bullet and becoming a Web Designer, there are just too many good opportunities out there. I'm a professional SW engineer, so I want approach this correctly. So far I'm fairly good at HTML/CSS/Javascript all completely by hand. I'm also good with jQuery and Django with mySql. I've made some cool sites but it takes TOO L...

Definition of Java's CMS GC log lines?

Examining a Java runtime with CMS (Concurrent-Mark-Sweep) GC enabled, what is the definition of the CMS space in the logs below? Shall I assume it is the tenured space? I see the following lines of a minor-major-minor GC event 23.481: [GC 23.481: [DefNew: 1051K->128K(1152K), 0.0029912 secs] 11925K->11027K(13600K), 0.0031697 secs] [Tim...

Definition of Java's mark-preclean-sweep-reset GC lines?

Can someone please provide some insight into the the following verbosegc lines on a Java runtime with CMS GC enabled? Specifically: Does the event at 29.490 indicate heap location of the highwater for marking? What is the preclean phase and what is it doing different than marking? What is the reset phase? Why would that take time to...

File sharing CMS with some functionalities

Hello, I know there are a lot of CMS engines out there and I have worked with some. However, there has is a project I need to work on that requires a site with fully CMS capabilities (so it can be easy managed for content, advertisementes, Google AdWords, etc) and at the same time in this site there should be file sharing. What is goin...

.NET CMS with ability to add custom modules

I know that almost everything is already said about CMSs, but what interests me this time is which will be most conformable CMS for adding custom modules. The situation is as follows, I have minor knowledge of C# , .NET and CSV, things where I think that I am good are MSSQL and business logic (in our company). Now I want to begin my own...

Trying to find a PHP5 API-based embeddable CMS

I've been making the rounds for a CMS that I can use as an API, in a sort of "embedded" mode. I mean by this that I don't want the CMS to do any logic or presentation. I want it to be used as an API, which I can then use within an existing site. I don't want to be tied to the architecture of the CMS. A good example of this is NC-CMS (h...

How to design an extensible CMS for Google App Engine?

I am a fan of the extensibility of the CMSes. You can upload some code (usually PHP), authorize it from the CMS admin panel and it's running. I wonder if it is possible in Google App Engine. I haven't checked the extensibility of existing CMSes for Google App Engine, but if there is any of them that supports plugins I would like to know...

Best Book for Wordpress Developer and CMS Development

Hi , I start a new job on the 4th of jan and I need two books one on Wordpress for developers and one on CMS maybe focused on a certain CMS would be good does any one have any recommendations for a good book? ...

Silverlight CMS

Hi guys. I am have started working with Silverlight and thought I would make a full futured website with a Silverlight front and are therefor looking for an Open Source CMS that takes care of the administration part and lets me worry about the presentation. This is a hobby project so I am not very intrested in spending any money on thi...

PHP to work across templates in Joomla

I'm trying to get a small set of php functions working that i need available on the entire page. I'm including them in my index.php main template via require_once "my_functions.php". They work in the index.php template; that's the good news. We have a plugin that let's us write php in our content items with the following syntax: {sour...

Best way to load only specfic functions in PHP.

I'm writing my own content management system for a personal website, it's going to be low traffic, but I'd like to use the best practices for my future knowledge. My plan is to have separate sections, basically the first non-root directory, will have it's own script and will directly control all its subpages. I want everything to be con...

CMS built on Zend Framework

Is there a CMS built on Zend Framework? As alternative, are there classes that allow to easier implement a CMS with Zend Framework? If there are any CMSs, can you suggest which one is better, or which one you would use? ...

I have about two months to learn as much about Joomla as possible.

My company recently decided to turn their contract web development project (they finally brought their website in house) in to a full time position. As an established employee I have first crack at an interview. I've been deveoping at a semi-pro (some light freelancing and development of web aps for my company) level for a while now, but...

Making use of a Sharepoint Webpart within a non Sharepoint CMS?

Hi all, I am creating a new CMS for a customer using ASP.NET 3.5, SQL2008 and Windows Server 2008. The customer has some webparts that he uses in his current Sharepoint implementation and would like to have their functionality in the new CMS. I can install Windows Sharepoint Services on the Windows 2008 server. Is there a way I can dis...

Can you recommend an easy to use easy to develop CMS?

We need some easy way to manage web sites at our company, and we are evaluating some CMS tools for this purpose. We do not yet know what features the sites will need to have (but it will definitely be something with lots of functionalities), so we are looking for something with lots of features and more importantly to be easily extensi...

Which is easier to extend, Alfresco or Nuxeo?

I am considering doing a rewrite of an open source project from LAMP to J2EE and integrating it with an enterprise oriented CMS as the GUI. The two most viable OSS ECM J2EE CMS platforms that I have run across are Alfresco and Nuxeo. I need to get into some deep integration with whatever CMS I pick. Which one of these two technologies (...