while the CF CMS solutions are good, esp Mura, they lack the plugins and themes and support that exists for the likes of Joomla. Mura seems to be the most popular CMS in CF land these days, but if you get stuck the chance of getting any help on the mura forums is almost non existent in my experience.
Joomla is a bit of an unweildy beast, not very intuitive and complex to use, most functionality seems like it was bolted on as an afterthought, while it is the most popular CMS that doesn;t mean it is good, I think it is quite horrible to use..But it has a plugin for everything you could imagine, thousands of themes to choose from, and plenty of communities to get support. If you want a powerful CMS with gazillions of themes and plugins that do everything you could ever want then Joomla or Drupal is hard to beat. If you are more concerned about simplicity and ease of use rather than powerful CMS features then Wordpress is the boss, it is not really a CMS, but has a basic WYSIWYG page editor and more plugins and themes than you could wave a stick at. If you want a powerful CMS that is easy to use and extend but doesn't have a lot of 3rd party plugins or themes, then the CF options Jordan mentioned are all good, or on the PHP front take a look at Concrete5 and there are plenty of other lesser known CMS's which are much better than the most popular ones. The other big advantage with using a popular CMS is updates. Because they are so widely used, any hacks or vulnerabilities are discovered and patched pretty quick, plus you get new features etc with updates. A roll your own CMS is only going to get any love if the client asks for it, they invariably end up becoming legacy code that has not been updated for years and any security holes go unnoticed. every so often we get a customer who tells us their site has been hacked, or they are being spammed via the contact page, and it always turns out to be ancient legacy code that has not been updated in years and is full of holes. Usually they do not have the money to get all the problems fixed and it ends up being much quicker and cheaper to just redo the site in Wordpress. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:30 PM, AJ Mercer <[email protected]> wrote: > > another (free) open source CFML CMS for your consideration > Farcry CMS > http://www.farcrycore.org/ > > > CMSs do not replace a programmer - they are for managing content. > Most will have a WYSIWYG editor so they can do formatting via a tool bar. > > If customisation is required, you will most likely want someone with > programming skills. If this is going to be you, you will probably want to > system built with a language you know, or at least want to learn. Even it > it is a minor change, you will need to be able to find the bit of code to > edit and be confident it wont break anything else. I found WordPress (PHP) > very complex to work out how things work. And I am sure a competent > WordPress/PHP person would say the same about Farcry CMS (in fact, a CFML > developer would say the same thing!) > > > On 24 July 2013 04:55, Jordan Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > CFML-based CMS's are also readily available: > > > > Mura: http://www.getmura.com/ > > ContentBox: http://www.gocontentbox.org/ > > Xindi: http://www.getxindi.com/ > > > > All free and open-source. > > > > They certainly do not replace a developer - instead they compliment you. > > They allow you to avoid needing to develop a custom CMS each time and > > focus on developing the uniqueness of your client's services. > > > > If you're doing e-commerce, check out Slatwall as well: > > http://www.getslatwall.com/ > > > > I have not personally used Joomla in a couple years but their upgrade > > policies were terrible at the time. Their security isn't bad, but being > > an open-source PHP app they are regularly targeted so patching is > > mandatory. You and your clients will need to stay on top of that if you > > choose to run with Joomla. > > > > I'd whole-heartedly recommend something CFML-based instead. > > > > Warm Regards, > > Jordan Michaels > > > > On 07/23/2013 01:25 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > > > > > Hi, guys... > > > > > > Just need some recommendations from some of you who have been > > > down this road before. > > > > > > I have a client that is asking for what amounts to absolute control > > > over their site through a CMS. Among a few others they metioned, > > > Joomla was brought up. > > > > > > I'm checking them out myself, but wanted to cut to the chase based > > > on experience from those who have used CMS's that provide control > > > such as Joomla. > > > > > > What have you tried? What turned out to work well? What bombed? > > > I've always "rolled my own", and never used a ready-made CMS, so > > > I have zero experience with them. > > > > > > (Joomla seems like it replaces me as a designer/developer, at first > > glance. > > > If a client has a CMS that allows them to do everything that I do > > > for them now, including selecting themes for pages they add to the > > > site themselves (designer), manage data through Joomla functionality > > (developer), > > > I wonder if I would end up as a "Joomla Installer & Maintenance" person > > > for the client. ???) > > > > > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks for any feedback! > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356299 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
