content-management

CMS for more than 600 Content rich Websites

I've got a little history in CMS technology and I wonder if anyone could recommend a CMS-System (esp. WCM) for large content rich websites. Consider a hierarchical tree structure of sites with e.g. 4-5 levels, where you have about 10 to 15 trees of sites. e.g.: Organisation 1-n 1.1 Suborg 1-n 1.2 Special-Microsite 1-n You should furt...

Free alternate to sharepoint portal ?

Hey Guys, Would anyone like to recommend free alternative to SharePoint Portal ? We want to create a internal portal site for Content Management with features like Permissions, History etc. ...

How do you make a CMS and existing asp.net applications live together peacefully in IIS?

Note: I originally posted this on ServerFault, but I haven't gotten any responses at all. Since it looks like I'm on track to get the Tumbleweed badge over there, I figured I would try here also. Our existing public website consists of a mish-mash of asp.net pages with mostly static content and some real web applications that are set ...

Drupal 5.x migrate content from one type to another

I have a bunch of content in the page content type that I would like to migrate to a new custom content type. I don't need to add or remove fields or change the data stored in the content type at all, just straight copy them over. Is there a module to do this? ...

Employer wants any non-technical staff to be able to modify content - easy solution?

I'm in a bit of a pickle at work. My department designs a number of internal systems for the company, mostly data-reporting related. We have less than 10 true content pages that actually need to be maintained by a human. These pages were written in PHP and maintained through Dreamweaver by a non-technical staff members - they used the de...

Web application integration with Drupal

We want to build a web application, that is specific to our domain, but also include forums, blogs etc in this application. Some integration points to Twitter and Facebook are also required. There will also be a desktop application that connects to our web application for uploading data and downloading configuration and reports. The q...

Changing page title of submit a new story page in pligg

I have installed latest version of pligg on my local server. It's running fine. Currently when i click on submit a new story it displays 'Submit a New Story, Step 2 of 3' as title. I want to edit this title. I am confused where should i make the changes? ...

Content Management System targeting Mobile Devices

Hi, all. If I want to implement CMS for Mobile Devices, what kind of points should take into account? For example, make page size smaller, use optimized (small) pictures. Any other ideas? Also what kind of rules can be applied while converting web-pages that WERE designed for Desktop Browsers, to the ones that are easily displayed in ...

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...

How to use Git as content distribution network

The book 'Git Internal' mentions about using git as peer to peer content distribution network at p50, but doesn't have much detail. Especially how to have several branches which has tracking different files. Example: (working dir) a00.exe a01.exe b00.exe c00.exe c01.exe c02.exe Master branch tracks all files, while branch A only tracks...

How to implement simple online management for a book library?

At my institution, we have a small library with 150 books and 50 users. We would like to use a simple online management system that displays the books, lets users search and enter when they get and return a book. (There is no librarian, the books are just in an otherwise empty room.) I'm not familiar with modern web content management s...

What is the best way to get clean semantic XHTML from MS word documents?

Some days ago I received a rather lengthy and somewhat elaborate MS Word document, which I was asked to convert to HTML for uploading to a 3rd party’s website. My first instinct was to save the Word document as HTML and use Dreamweaver’s "Clean Up Word HTML" Command. But not only did I have to leave it running all night for Dreamweaver t...

Use php to save text box content to a page.

Im trying to build a extremely basic content management system. I want to do it all with php and was hoping it would be as simple as echoing content that was submitted in a text form. The problem is I need to save the echoed content to the page somehow (preferably without a database) and then have it replaced with new echoed content if ...

User (MS-Office) generated content - how?

How can I allow users to share Microsoft Office generated content on an ASP.NET site? For example usage, imagine a site similar to Stack Overflow. George, writing a question, uses Word, Excel or OneNote to create content, and then inserts the content into the question area (probably copying it into the clipboard and then using some "pa...

How to format dates in Jahia 6 CMS?

I am helping a friend of mine put up a site for his business. I’ve read different posts and sites trying to find the ideal CMS tool, but people have different views of what is the best, so I finally just picked one of them at random. So I went for an evaluation of Jahia 6.0-CE. As you’ve probably guessed by now, I don’t have so much exp...

Why would you use a Content Management System?

I want to help a friend manage his business site and I thought that a CMS would be the thing for him. But I’m not so sure anymore. I recently discovered all this CMS industry and… sincerely… I don’t get it. Why are so many CMS solutions out there? Why isn’t there a definite leader on the market? What can you use it for? Why would you u...

Is there a standard site structure format?

Is there a standard site structure format? The use of this would be for export and import into a CMS or framework to define the urls, content, metadata for a website. Something tool agnostic would be the goal. JSON, YAML, XML, whatever. Maybe something like: { 'baseurl': 'http://example.com', 'site': [ {'slug': '/', 'title': 'E...

Are there any decent open-source multi-tenant CMS's out there?

We're looking for a CMS that we can use as the basis for a new product we're rolling out. As it's principally a content based thing, we need to base everything on a CMS, but there's a few things we need: As we're supporting tens - hundreds of users, we ideally need a multi-tenant CMS (single shared code base), that can support differe...

As of 2010, what good Rails-based content management systems are there (Typo?)?

I Googled this question and came up with answers (and CMSes) from pre-2009, so I was wondering if the state of RoR CMSes had changed much since then? I don't need a full-fledged CMS...I have a custom app in mind that I would like to attach blog/article/editor tools functionality to, without having to re-write those parts myself. So any ...

Storing Content with Complex Structure using Django

Is there a recommended best-practice for storing content that has a complex structure. For example, suppose a typical "article" I am trying to serve may have the following hierarchy: Header #1 Subheader #1.a) Text content Image content Text Content Subheader #1.b) Text Content Other complex content ty...