Hey, have any of you kids out there built websites using content management systems? I'm looking into the possibility for one major project my sister and I are working on, and a rebuild of a client's site. First one's not too hard, but I need the second to do a few specific things that, while I can't imagine they're rare requirements, I haven't been able to find a module/component to make happen.
As far as I can tell, the only way to figure out if any specific CMS will do anything is to actually install it and then go through lists of hundreds of modules and experiment. (My programming skills are nowhere near being able to build something myself.) This is actually kind of fun, but awfully time-consuming. Am I missing something obvious?
(I won't go into the specifics of what I'm trying to do unless anyone here knows what the hell I'm talking about.)
On another web-related subject, I'd like to talk about my web host for a second. Working at a webdev company, where our sites (hosted with Other Major National Host) go down almost daily, it's really become clear to me how lucky I was to sign up with HostRocket back in the '90s. My site was down for about ten minutes last week and I realized the last time I'd had any interruption at all was in 2001, when I think the power on the whole East Coast went down. Besides being reliable, they're dirt cheap, have billions of features and an unusually intuitive admin section, and their customer service is prompt, professional and thorough. I can't think of very many services I've used heavily for a decade with hardly any complaints.
Oh, another thing about my hosting service is that I'm $10 short of an affiliate payout.
(You can't say I wasn't straightforward about it!)
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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We're currently in the middle of an extensive search for an enterprise CMS for the University. So far, the one winning out is the open source product Drupal. It can be used for a tiny site or a massive site like ours. You might also look into Movable Type 4.0 -- they're building lots of cool stuff into the newer version (not the one I installed for you) that is more CMS-like.
:-)
Oh, interesting! Drupal's on my short list too, as well as Joomla, and the main attraction of both is that there are a ton of extensions and an active community. I'm not a programmer and expect to need help regularly!
At work, we recently started using Farcry; I've gotta say, for what we need from a site, I'm not that impressed.
I think Real Live Preacher either switched away from Drupal recently or did a major Drupal upgrade. Can't remember which, but If you get serious about, you might drop his web guy a line.
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