Comments on: CMS Roundup: Introduction

By: Joshua Cyr

Joshua Cyr — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:24:57 +0000

Thanks for including us in your list. Let me know how I can help in your evaluation in any way.

By: Mark Holm

Mark Holm — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:41:15 +0000

@Darth
Yeah I looked at Plone and rejected it for all of the reasons you listed.. but my boss like it ’cause it was “easy for non tech people” and took some hits rejecting it and his other choice “internet dashboard” a .net CMS with lots of prebuilt web apps but didn’t see any way to modify/ customize it.

By: Kola

Kola — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:55:25 +0000

Looking forward to your results. There are a few more not listed which I mention here:

http://coolskool.blog-city.com/coldfusion_content_management_systems.htm

By: Darth Sidious

Darth Sidious — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:28 +0000

Cripe, this round-up would have been most useful to use a year ago when we were looking. We ended up going with Plone due to its 3 minute up and running install and no training needed for non-techies to figure it out. It’s crazy fast, and super easy to use.

But if you want to customize it (add modules/extension, etc…)… good luck. It’s based on the ZOPE DB which is some object relational DB that you can’t just query using SQL, and the programming is based on Python… which I’ve yet to meet a single programmer who knows that.

So in hindsite… not sure if it was the right decision. But it’s free.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:02:24 +0000

@Mark: I am suspecting that as well. I am going to review it and see what happens.

@Sana: I have heard similar sentiments. This doesn’t quite meet my requirements, though: As the IT guy, I want to swoop in, implement the CMS, and get out with little overhead. On a secondary level of consideration, I want the developer tools. But most importantly, the CMS is for the non-tech users.

@Johan: Thanks. I totally missed this one.

By: Mark Holm

Mark Holm — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:19:15 +0000

I liked the concept of FarCry, but in my testing; it did not pass your requirement (and mine) for ease of use for non tech people

By: Sana

Sana — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:23:26 +0000

I think FarCry is too cool open-source cms: it is extend-able and too quickly you can deliver the functionality to your clients. simply this is CF world’s fastest development language.

By: Johan Steenkamp

Johan Steenkamp — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:58:59 +0000

You may like to check out AssetNow NX (www.assetnow.com) – our CMS uses the XStandard XHTML editor and has very strong web standards support. Development is easy with template and widgets. Meet the other feature criteria on your list.

By: Oğuz Demirkapı

Oğuz Demirkapı — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:35:49 +0000

NQcontent (nqcontent.com) is also a CF based commercial solution. It is not popular in US like Contens but these 2 are really good at their job.

I look forward to hear your analyze reports.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:41:25 +0000

Thanks, Oğuz. I’ll look into these and consider adding them to the mix.

By: Oğuz Demirkapı

Oğuz Demirkapı — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:20:02 +0000

… and there is also Typo3 (typo3.com) which is one of my favorite one in PHP world after Drupal.

By: Oğuz Demirkapı

Oğuz Demirkapı — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:12:20 +0000

I also would suggest Contens (contens.com) as a CF & Fusebox/MachII solution.