content-management

Allowing users to create website from template

Folks, I'm building a website for a very non-tech-savvy audience. The intent is to allow them to pick a website template from a list, and then customize the content of the provisioned website lightly. The emphasis of ease of use (target audience can use email, and maybe facebook, but HTML is an acronym they've never heard, and neither ...

Organisation / Management of files on a web server

I'm looking for a good word to describe the placement of files in a directory. For instance, putting all files that are includes within an "includes" directory. Putting images into an "images" directory. I'm sure there is a right word for it, its just not coming to me today :-( ...

Handling complex data collection with a CMS

I do web work for a group at the university I attend. We’re having a design company redo our site and will be coding the site ourselves. We’d like to build the new site on top of a CMS so that people can easily add content. So far I’ve been looking into using Drupal. The problem I’m running into while thinking through how well Drupal wil...

Any flexible CMS perfect for restaurant website’s back-end?

I’m building a website for a restaurant which consists of several static pages like ‘About us’ and editable menu. I need a CMS flexible enough to be able to add items individually (by individually, I mean adding items doesn’t equal pasting a HTML list of n products into another static page). Each item should contain its name, descripti...

ASP.NET very simple Content Management

I need to build a very simple administration interface for maintaining website content. Not fancy enough to justify Umbraco or a more heavy duty CMS. Basically just a couple of formatted text areas (a bit like the one I'm using now) and the ability to upload images. I've used FCK in the past, but is there an improvement on this for ASP...

Seeing strange character for apostrophe on wordpress based page, but only in Internet Explorer

I'm gettign this strange character instead of an apostrophe on a page that's powered by Wordpress, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers (chrome, firefox) display as the actual apostrophe. ’ Can somebody tell me what the problem is? Here's the instance in question: http://cure.org/about/management-team/ You'll see under Dal...

Reccomendations for a Museum / Inventory management system that is web based and open source

Looking for a content management system that can be used by museum curators to keep track of inventory. Ideally there are a small set of features: Name / Description / Catalog number Searching Tools Does not need a public view. Pure internal is fine Php / Mysql backend So far the one I have found is http://www.collectiveaccess.org/ ...

Drupal Content Manger module that approve content, Track changes....

Hello Guys, I know for a fact that Drupal is a content management software. What I would like to know is, is their any module in drupal that does content management? Like approving a submitted contents, post or comments, Track changes and so on and so forth. If you visit this site http://www.formstack.com/forms/envato-tuts_net_content_s...

CMS For Hospital

I work for a Government Hospital and we are looking for a CMS to build our web page out of. Some of the things that we are looking for are: ease of making forms, the ability to give access to specific users to add content and files to specific areas, the ability to add my own HTML page, and ease of use, among others. I prefer any Open So...

Database schema for getting started with a Content Management System

Hi I'm starting development of a small content management system but struggling to figure out how to get started. Does any one know where I can get a database schema or how such a system is developed. There are loads of CMS systems but none allow you to embed them in an application and that is why I need to develop this. any ideas wi...

Edit in Place CMS Suggestions

Hi there, I need to find a [very] easy to use (for editors/authors) CMS. Preferably with edit-in-place editing similar to SiteCore. We don't need something as huge and powerful as SiteCore though. Users need the ability to add pages (using set templates that we in development have provided), they also need the ability to add and editin...

Handling Images and file attachments in a Content Management System

Assumptions: Microsoft stack (ASP.NET; SQL Server). Some content management systems handle user-generated content (images, file attachments) by storing it in the file system. Others store these items in the back end database. Some examples of both: In the filesystem: Community Server, Graffiti CMS In the database: Microsoft Sharepoin...

Content Repository , Document Repository , whats the difference if any?

What is the difference between CMSs and DMSs ? Both store date , give access to the data , where do they differ? Can apache Jack Rabbit be used in place of Alfresco ? ...

When to use JCR (content repository) over other options?

Hi, I'm trying to evaluate content repositories (JSR283) like Jackrabbit and ModShape but I must confess that I don't understand what problem resolves in first place and even if it is a good choice for the project. Which cases do you think is the best solution to apply? Is not the same thing as relational databases, except for the size? ...

What is the 'best' Content Management System for low visits?

I need to build a website that keeps the content & appearance themes separate. I figured that a content management system is the best way to achieve this goal. I expect the user base to be hundreds of hits a day. What is the best content management system for: Speed (given the low visits) Development & maintenance (cost of hiring devel...

which content magement system to use, if any

hi I am required to design a website where displaying content is the key functionality. This is a similar site, so you can imagine the amont of content. Of course the design depends on preferences. As i am planing the design I was thinking if such a website would require some kind of content management system (as I would imagine th...