Content Management

DaveH

Hi,
Can anyone recommend a good content management package. www.rahenyshamrock.com is a site i administrator(this verision isnt mine). We currently looking into an upgrade. What were looking for is so that the PRO can upload news stories easily and all users can upload pictures.

We using mambo at the minute...which is crap imo. I know its free!
Also would preference to have the site written in html, due mainly to uploading results etc.

Any advice please?

CuLT

I always though mambo was bollocks tbh, you'd probably be best off just using wordpress and fleshing it out a bit.

cianuro

Why do you think Mambo is Crap?
Mambo/Joomla are some of the best, world class content management systems out there. I use Mambo for about 20 sites.

yours seems to have just a pretty basic install. You can use the built in wrapper to display your results or get a custom coded module for updating them.

Rollo Tamasi

never liked joomla/mambo...too much bloat and not enough functionality on the default installation imo

A CMS should be lightweight. I'd go for either Wordpress or Drupal. Nice and small and a lot easier to design layouts for.

You can spot a Joomla/Mambo site in an instant /generalisation

seamus

cianuro wrote:

Why do you think Mambo is Crap?
Mambo/Joomla are some of the best, world class content management systems out there. I use Mambo for about 20 sites.

Perhaps it's just me, but they're quite inaccessible for a new user or someone with only one website. The admin interface isn't very intuitive, and there's very little in the way of help while you're working on it. Granted, it's a community effort, but it's so polished and stable you think they'd make it easier than having to read the entire manual before you can begin.

tomED

Personally I suggest Typo3. We use this on most of our client sites and find it very easy to use.

I have to admit, it's not lightweight and when you are starting out, it's a pretty big learning curve.

But, in saying that, it's a very very powerful CMS that gives a developer a lot of control.

www.typo3.org

Tom

layke

www.xoops.org

Have a look through the modules section a child can do it.

mneylon

tomED wrote:

Personally I suggest Typo3. We use this on most of our client sites and find it very easy to use.

I have to admit, it's not lightweight and when you are starting out, it's a pretty big learning curve.

But, in saying that, it's a very very powerful CMS that gives a developer a lot of control.

www.typo3.org

Tom

I'd have to agree. It's really powerful and flexible.

axer

CuLT wrote:

I always though mambo was bollocks tbh, you'd probably be best off just using wordpress and fleshing it out a bit.

from what I have seen - you would have to have an idea of a php to get it to not look like blogging software.

I would go with either Drupal or Joomla. I have used Joomla alot and find it excellent but I have yet to try drupal - I hear great things about it. Typo3 is very impressive alright but takes a long time to get the hand of.

DaveH wrote:

We using mambo at the minute...which is crap imo.

What makes it crap?

DaveH wrote:

Also would preference to have the site written in html, due mainly to uploading results etc.

Please explain.

smash

try SOeditor

heggie

i happen to like textpattern.

DaveH

axer wrote:

from what I have seen - you would have to have an idea of a php to get it to not look like blogging software.

I would go with either Drupal or Joomla. I have used Joomla alot and find it excellent but I have yet to try drupal - I hear great things about it. Typo3 is very impressive alright but takes a long time to get the hand of.


What makes it crap?

Please explain.

We organise a few big races every year. The software that produces the results produces over say 2000 results "finish no. Race no. Name. Club. time) in a basic HTML document. That why I have that preference.

regi

There's another vote for Drupal here - very nice system, I've found.

axer

DaveH wrote:

We organise a few big races every year. The software that produces the results produces over say 2000 results "finish no. Race no. Name. Club. time) in a basic HTML document. That why I have that preference.

You can copy and paste the html into the wysiwyg editors that come with joomla and drupal.