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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 15:57
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I'm currently looking into CMS's for a website I work with. Its getting to the point where it requires a new and more controllable system.

Has anyone else here used a CMS? Any advice?

I'm currently playing with Drupal, which isn't too bad at all (if not confusing). I've also used PHPNuke - but its a little "amatuer" for this site.


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PowerSoft
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 18:07
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Im developing my own. Its not for commercial as such just experience... what sort of features Nick..?

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Jeku
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 21:50
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I recommend e107 from http://www.e107.org --- I use it on my site http://www.automatongames.com and it's fabulous.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 22:26
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There are a number of features, but the basics are:
* Need for categoried articles (multiple category required).
* Articles should have a public section and a members read only section..

Its hard to explain - there is a 3 page word document with bullet points forming a Wish List.

Mambo looks nice - I'll look into e107 too.

I did suggest to them that I could build them a custom made one - however they prefer an open source one as its already done and its very likely the stuff they wanna do can come in the form of a module/plugin.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 16:13
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Ok, currently, my ratings are
1. Drupal
2. Mambo (looks nicer, but it is DAMN hard to figure out!)
3. e107

e107 looks like a really good CMS if you're making a kind of portal thats designed for users to populate (comments and forums, etc) but it doesn't seem like the kind of CMS for a site which has over 1000 articles that need to be hosted under different categories.

I'm currently looking into Migard - anyone used that?


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