cms

Wiki or CMS

What are the differences between a wiki and a CMS? Is there any? ...

defined? method in Ruby and Rails

I have a quite old templating system written on top of ERB. It relies on ERB templates stored in database. Those are read and rendered. When I want to pass data from one template to another I use the :locals parameter to Rails render method. For setting default variables of those variables in some templates I use the defined? method whic...

Framework/CMS suggestions for enterprise website & intranet (I've got to convince the president its solid!)

Dear stack overflow community, I've been given the task of overhauling a couple of websites for a large corporation I'm working for, as well as developing an internal intranet site for content management and document storage within the organization. My "problem" is this: They want me to use a framework/set of languages/technologies tha...

MySource Matrix - Opinions

Has anyone had experience with MySource Matrix as a content management system? If so, thoughts/opinions/comments? Thanks in advance. ...

My ideal CMS. Does it exist, or isn't it a "CMS" anymore?

As a webdeveloper I have built several small and large websites with different teams, but always had to deliver a CMS to maintain content. In my experience with different CMSes, I have found them to pretty much always leave a footprint on the website, like offering page templates that are required to build the website with. So, I though...

Terminalfour site manager - Content Management System

Hi all I am about to start a project, ongoing actually for the next 2 years where we as an organisation will be implementing TerminalFour Site Manager I am basically after any advice or support if anyone has used this piece of software, and what they think about it. So far, apart from it being clearly not the prettiest of interfaces, ...

What is the best open source .NET content management system (CMS)?

I'm trying to find a decent (ie cheap / free) .NET content management system. DotNetNuke is not an option as far as I am concerned. Wish list: Works out of the box Easy to install Simple clean interface Skinable / template driven Free or cheap Open source preferred Or is is just better to PHP for this kind of thing? If so, what sh...

Where to store the complete url in a cms?

I'm creating a cms and have not yet settled on the matter of where to store the complete url for a given page in the structure. Every page have a slug (url friendly name of the page) and every page has a nullable (for top-level pages) parent and children. Where do I store the complete url (/first-page/sub-page) for a given page? Should...

open source cms

Has anyone ever used any Java based open soure cms tools? I am evaluating jackrabbit specifically. Does anyone have any thought on it or know something that is better? ...

Familiar with SilverStripe? What are your opinions/impressions?

I'm trying to pick a good CMS that isn't a portal. All of my research as lead me to believe SilverStipe is the best option. I'd like some opinions/impressions. Thanks for any thoughts you have. edit: I've decided to try it out. I'll post my own answer after I've had some time with it. It seems like based on the lack of a response t...

Is there any CMS better than WordPress or should I roll my own?

I'm developing a small business website and want to give some control over content to the client but also allow myself control over the outputted code. Indeed allow the user to fill in the content gaps while not creating havoc. I'm leaning towards WordPress rather than reinventing the wheel in asp.net, which would be my code of choice,...

How to create a CMS web site using OFBiz

I need a simple how-to tutorial on developing a simple CMS web site using the OFBiz CMS framework. There are absolutely no documentation of how OFBiz CMS works. Whatever is there in the official website is only about the data model used in OFBiz CMS application. If somebody can illustrate just a "Hello World" like application in OFBiz C...

'Snippit' based django semi-CMS

I remember reading somewhere on the internets about a half-assed tiny django CMS app, which was basically built on 'snippets' of text. The idea was, that in the admin, you make a snippet (say a description of a product), give it a name (such as 'google_desc') and call it in a template with something like {% snippet google_desc %} and ba...

CMS versioning strategies for content.

I'm looking at building basic CMS functionality into our web product and am researching tips and design ideas for versioning content. I'm specifically looking for database schemas in use today. What are you using for content versioning? What patterns apply if you have different types of content that need versions stored? How is question...

Nexus CMS - Google Search Appliance indexing.

http://nexuscms.com/ Anybody use this CMS? i dont know much about it, need to index a site which was built using it with a GSA (google search appliance), but there is very little documentation about it on their website. wondering if there will be any pitfalls, what type of database does it use.. thanks. ...

Modifying WordPress's "post-new.php" File for Custom Blog Entries

Has anyone ever modified the "post-new.php" file in their WordPress installation? I want to modify the look of this page to include pieces that I standardly include in my blog posts, and I just don't know if it is do-able/easy/worth my time. Should I just find another CMS that allows more modifcation like Drupal? ...

Website image manager with copy/paste? (Flash?)

I'm looking for a web based upload manager, with good support for images. It should be as easy as possible for novice users to "add images to a website". I could use such a thing for two use cases: A CMS for external use, needs proper image support (1-file upload doesn't quite cut it). A Wiki for internal use, to get popular it will ne...

Alfresco + Opsoro Setup

Hi, I want to set up a content mgmt system. And i feel the combination of Alfresco with Opsoro is a gud one. Any other suggestions? visit Alfresco & Opsoro ...

Best Django 'CMS' component for integration into existing site.

So I have a relatively large (enough code that it would be easier to write this CMS component from scratch than to rewrite the app to fit into a CMS) webapp that I want to add basic Page/Menu/Media management too, I've seen several Django pluggables addressing this issue, but many seem targeted as full CMS platforms. Does anyone know o...

What does "Nuke" in DotNetNuke mean?

A co-worker asked me how the word "Nuke" relates to CMS? To be honest I never thought about it, and there wasn't any information on the web that I could find. Francisco Burzi wrote that his Perl script that he used to manage content was called NUKE. His knowledge of that system fueled his adaptation of thatware to phpNuke. Does anyone...