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Posted 13 June 2004 - 10:37 PM

I am planning to start a small project. Well, let's say the main idea will be around movie reviews. I am thinking about the content management system to run the website. I was told that the market leaders at the moment are Xoops and Post Nuke. What are pros and cons of each one? Can you recommend any other CMS?

#2 Ruben@Run2

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Posted 14 June 2004 - 09:56 AM

Sergey:

After heard just good things about Mambo, im using it on a new project and let me tell you that it is very friendly and easy to use on the process of adapting your design to the system. As i cant show any progress on my work, I made a search thru their community forum and found these site , a movie related one that will give you an idea of what can you expect from it. Hope this helps. ;)
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Posted 14 June 2004 - 09:00 PM

Ruben,
the website really looks great! I might need to look more into this mambo script. If it is already translated into Russian I might use it. To be honest I don't want to do extra work translating the website (both xoops and post nuke are currently translated and have a Russian support websites.

#4 Ruben@Run2

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Posted 17 June 2004 - 06:53 AM

Sergey:

While doing my monthly bookmarks cleaning, i found this . There u will find a lot of CMS systems already installed and with access to each Admin panel. Again, hope it helps. ;)
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#5 Logistikal

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Posted 18 June 2004 - 05:35 AM

Here are a few I've heard good things about...

(The non-developer version of this is free) Moveable Type

Wordpress

Textpattern
Design with standards.

#6 allmambo

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Posted 18 August 2004 - 04:03 PM

hey... MAMBO gets my vote.. :p ... as far as russian... it's been done..
don't know of many russian sites... but one comes to mind
http://mambostudio.com.ru/ i'd suggest u visit the official forums and look around... a good resource site is mamboPortal
allmambo.com Templates - Tutorials, for mambo community

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Posted 18 August 2004 - 04:35 PM

allmambo, wish you had been here before. It's too late now. I have installed xoops. Haven't used anything else besides it, but anyway, I feel it's a good CMS too.

#8 timore

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Posted 15 September 2004 - 11:54 AM

I used to use Xoops some time ago, but somehow it had too many bugs, or I just hadn`t installed it right...

Currently I´m using Geeklog, which is also pretty easy to use.

#9 Brat

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Posted 16 September 2004 - 10:36 PM

I too would heartily recommend Mambo. Of all the CMSs that I've used or tested, Mambo is (to date) the easiest one to install and theme. I'm currently using it as the backend of a personal site of mine, and do plan on using it for my business sites as well.

In addition, Mambo community is growing, and now there are a slew of add-ons, plug-ins, components and modules. From forums (PHPBB, Invision Board, Simple Machines) all the way through chat sytems (X7 Chat, FlashChat), and more, Mambo is now a serious contender in the CMS domain.

I've been using it for over a year now and won't use any other CMS.

#10 Ruben@Run2

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 03:58 PM

While using Mambo, a friend told me about Typo3. I have to say that is very strong, got its own coding language for making templates (besides any others) and it have features that Mambo didnt. At this point, im using both of different projects. Check by your own: www.typo3.org
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#11 Brat

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 04:28 PM

What your friend said is true... but let me give you a BIG caveat on Typo3.

Typo3 is a VERY, VERY complex system. It does have power that is incredible, BUT it comes at a price. Typo3 (which I had evaulated for a brief time) has a learning curve that is far higher than usual. I'd use FrameMaker to create a site before I use Typo3. :p

Also, you have to have very solid programming skills (or at least a decent level of programming knowledge) to fully take advantage of its capabilities. Also, installation of Typo3 is not all that straightforward. Add to that (and please check this for yourself, because my memory is a bit foggy here), you had better make sure your web host meets the backend requirements of this software.

I've been to various sites where people sang its praises, but were a little less than forthcoming about the complexity part.

It all depends upon what you want/need to accomplish versus the amount of time you have in which to do it. Also, do you really need to have that kind of power? Based upon my experience, for 99% of most projects, the answer is "no."

All I can say is, Mambo does what it does well, is VERY stable, is not a resource hog, and (what I would figure is important from a design standpoint) relatively easy to theme.

Sure there are some things Mambo cannot do - but do you really need those things. That is a question only each individual can answer.

#12 Ruben@Run2

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Posted 20 September 2004 - 05:01 PM

I must agree on everything you said Brat. I did myself the installation of the software, and got a couple of troubles setting it but everything is fine now. Then, together with a couple of friends who are developers, we have being customizing it for the needs of our client and Typo3 fit it: multiple categories and subcategories, more than 1000 pages in the first 6 months, great users (members) permissions, and a lot of features.

Hopefully, now we are in the process of creating our own extension having the help of a big (and getting bigger) community of Typo3 developers.
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#13 klep

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Posted 19 October 2004 - 05:04 AM

I am looking for CMS for Intranet (Corparate) website. I tried some CMS (drupal, mamba, eZ, phpnuke) but none of them matchs the requirements. I do not say that they bad but I need very user friendly way to publish with images and very flexible user/group access level. For now the requirement is not very complex but I feel that it will be. The best I found is typo3. I am new with CMS but I think typo is very flexible and powerfull. I did not have problems with installation and configuration. But now after 1 week since I dived into it I see that it is really complex. I mean that it is not even complex from technical point of view but structure of site. I did a lot internet programminng but very specific and never used CMS. May be someone knows a place where I can find something about it. Any templates or examples how site looks from inside. I need site in English but documentation better in Russian. And one more question. As I said I am going with typo3. I need to execute external scripts and show results in context of CMS. There are three ways I found so far:
1. PHP context module - but it doesn't match because the code is executed in eval()
2. Run external scripts using template
3. Write new module
May be you guys know if writing modules is unified process with typo. I mean if there is framework for this. And what is disadvantage of using template to run external script.

Thank you in advanced,
Gleb
(I hope one more typo3 fun)

#14 Brat

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Posted 19 October 2004 - 08:35 PM

As I'd said earlier. ;)

You have perfectly summarized that the beauty of Typo3 is its evil - namely it is VERY sophisticated.

This CMS is basically for professional developers and programmers. If you're looking for assistance with this CMS, there are some Typo3 user groups out there. But, generally, this kind of help is hard to come by.

The reason for this, once again, is because the average webmaster cannot use this software within a reasonable amount of time (meaning that this monster has a STEEP learning curve). And what is not widely used will NOT have wide support.

So, my advice is to search for an actual Typo3 user/support group. Or, go to webhostingtalk.com and do a search for Typo3. At least that's a start.

Hope this helps.
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#15 klep

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Posted 20 October 2004 - 01:07 AM

Thank you Brat for advise. What I am basically need is to create about 16 sections (common places for groups) and setup news, blogs and maybe something basic stuff in each. Create simple template. Create a couple scripts which retreive data from ClearQuest and show it in site context. Then I can relax a bit lerning typo. So I am trying and will let here know how it is going.
One more question. There are about 100 users in intranet. Everyone shoud be able to create his own page(s). Something so-called "Home Place" for everyone. Only one thing comes to my mind is blog for each of them. May be there are other methods for this?

Thanks for help,
Gleb

#16 Brat

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Posted 20 October 2004 - 01:37 AM

Hey, I stumbled across this link. It appears to be a HUGE Typo3 community. I think you'd have far better luck going there than you will find here.

Take a look:
Typo3 Support Forums

Hope this helps. ;)

#17 klep

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Posted 20 October 2004 - 05:18 AM

Thanks a lot :)

#18 Ruben@Run2

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Posted 26 October 2004 - 09:45 AM

I dont have experience pulling data from ClearQuest, but on your question about a self-made HomePage, i read once about an extension that give FE users the ability to set it up.

Also, besides the link Brat posted, i always stick around the Typo3 English Newsgroup. You can find it (and other newsgroups related to Typo3 like Design or Development ones) at news.netfielders.de , then subscribe to typo3.english .
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