There are a million and one CMS' that do a good job but the interface and usability of it let the entire system down (like a lot of websites out there). Whenever I need to develop a bespoke system for content management I always try and draw on my past experiences and those of my clients to work out what works well and what doesn't. So ...
I've worked on a number of CMS systems using the .NET platform (the CMS management system is in ASP.NET, and the site which renders the content is both ASP.NET and PHP). I've traditionally stored the generated content in classes that serialize to XML, which is stored in MSSQL 2005/2008 in a varchar(max) field. This has made it convenie...
I need to create a internal website and can't figure out if we should be writing our own, or using an existing framework. Most of the website will essentially be a front end to a database. We need to have a number of people enter data into forms. We then want to be able to show different views of all this data -- including running sma...
I plan to read about Django. Should I go with Django or Plone? What makes Django/Plone better than the other? Edit: From a comment below: I just wanted to know a framework for developing web applications. ...
Hi all, Ok i'm in a bit of a pickle. I've built an asp.net site with a pretty big frontend and an even bigger backend. It's a big site with a lot of custom business logic for searching, displaying result sets, detailed records and then other relation DB update operations. The focus of the app has been very bespoke in nature. There are...
I am in the process of collecting ideas for building an opensource CMS based on ASP.net framework. I have choosen ASP.NET MVC with Jquery as the tool to develop this. I have made this as community wiki. Background: Most of the good CMS that is available is built on PHP, though off late CMS built on ASP.net framework seems to be croppi...
I'm an accomplished web and database developer, and I'm interested in redesigning my own website. I have the following content goals: Support a book I'm writing Move my blog to my own site (from blogger.com) Publish my articles (more persistent content than a blog) Host a forum with light use Embed slide sharing and screencasts I ...
Hi guys, I would like to know which is the best open source CMS in C#. Thought about using DotNetNuke, but it seems like its for VB.NET users. Then while googling I came across "RainBow portal". Since RainBow 2006 is their latest version, I have doubts about the product. Is it good? Are there any better Open Source CMS written in C...
This website http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/ appears to be using Drupal, and I like the menu system on the front page, but can't work out how it's been done. Has anyone any ideas about which Drupal modules might reproduce this look and functionality? ...
I'm looking for a CMS system to manage a simple and small website. The website will be made with pure HTML and some JavaScript (perhaps prototype library). The reason while I'm looking for a CMS system is, because the customer will have the ability to change the content later by him self, and of course he didn't have any experiences with...
Plone is very complex. Zope2, Zope3, Five, ZCML, ZODB, ZEO, a whole bunch of acronyms and abbreviations. It's hard to begin and the current state seems to be undecided. It is mainly based on Zope2, but incorporates Zope3 via Five. And there are XML config files everywhere. Does the steep learning curve pay of? Is this complexity still ...
I'm trying to configure TinyMCE so that it accepts pasting from Microsoft Word and cleans it up in an expected HTML hierarchy. Most of our editorial staff use a single line break to denote a line break and a double return to indicate a paragraph. However, MS Word's output puts the next line in a separate paragraph (unless you shift-ent...
Microsoft released the source for Oxite, their blogging engine that's intended to help .NET developers learn ASP.NET MVC. They also released the source for the Mix site, which was built with Oxite. Microsoft says that developers can build applications with Oxite, since it has a lot of built-in features like trackbacks, pingbacks, and RS...
I am currently developing a (somewhat large) site for a magazine, the site mainly consists of sections like : news (for various categories), members, and some 'other stuff' (like shoutbox, polls, previous covers, photo galleries that can be tagged, and ad banners system). Now, since most part of the site is a typical blog style (single-...
I'd like to build a CMS site based on Asp.Net Mvc and I want to choose my starting point. I have seen that there is a lot of interest in the new Microsoft Oxite project also if it seems to be pretty early to adopt it in a production project. I've also looked at S#arp Architecture but it does not properly compare to Oxite as is just a st...
What is the best practice for importing text into html from a multipage InDesign document, from designer to non-designer. Document designed on a mac going to CMS on PC - hand off the InDesign File or strip text into word file? Supplying all images and pdf as go-by? ...
I have been searching for several hours but i couldn't find anything about this... Basically I would like to create a template or plug-in for word 2007 that would allow someone to create new pages for a CMS. What I have in mind is something similar to blog post template. I know how to create a basic template but I can't find a way to pub...
Suppose someone is build you a CMS (Content Management System) from scratch. What are the most important features to include and why? ...
I have a CMS that I've written in ASP.NET. It still needs work and I'm thinking of releasing it as opensource. I'm just not sure how I want to handle this in the future. If I release it now as opensource, can I still release a commercial version? What other ways are there for me to make money on the CMS? ...
Drupal Aggregator core module is a useful one but suffers many problems. There are many talking about improving it in Drupal 7. Right now I'm using Aggregator module which comes with Drupal 6. I'm building an aggregation site, and there is one BIG problem. Sometimes feeds contain HTML tags attributes (e.g. style, dir, title), but Aggreg...