I've spent about 70% of my time over the last 5 years developing in PHP, including developing a customized installation of Joomla for a radio station client that included live streaming and audio archives. I've also rolled a customized CMS through the PHP framework Kohana. I, for one am happy to let go of the content updates and the radio station example allowed the program hosts to manage their own program content, archives, blogs and links to externals.
IMHO, as some have mentioned, Joomla is a bloated beast to customize. It does what it does well, though and has a solid role/permission setup and tons of plugin functionality. For a simple 10 page site, though, it's probably too much. For CFML CMS options, I find FarCry to be similarly troublesome to customize (I haven't worked with the newest versions, though) I've played around under the hood with Mura and I find it to be very promising as a CMS platform to build a site around. It's fast and straightforward in the way it approaches what it does. As far as design goes, I've never been able to take a Joomla site with a template and deploy it out-of-the-box. They all need customization, based on the way the client wants to use them. The newest version of Joomla is better for customizing. A customized CMS, whichever you choose, makes clients feel pleased and empowered. You'll still have plenty of work to do fixing the odd mistakes, adding functionality, and helping them through the learning curves. I've found that the more a client interacts with their site, the more valuable it becomes as a business tool and the more requests I get to add functionality and features to help then. Best of luck, Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:26 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: SOT: Client wants CMS that functions similar to Joomla, for example > > > 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:356302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
