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From: "Austin, Darrel" <>
Subject: RE: [cms-list] Looking for simple (low cost) CMS.... need suggestions
>
> A few mentioned Ektron, and while I honestly haven't taken a real close look
> at it, it didn't seem to be as much of a CMS as a 'page editing' system. (If
> that makes any sense.)
>
A good point. I have every intention of starting a CMS FAQ that will narrow the
definition of a CMS.
Online WYSIWYG site editors are SO not CMS's. Think about what Ms. Myrtle in
accounting could do to her accounting departments' public-facing website with a
WYSIWYG editor, Comic Sans 14pt and a 216 web safe color palette?
CMS is overused and abused in general. I already have a broad categorization of the
different CMS software systems that I use:
Website Management System. ala Ektron or Edit My Site Online
Portal/Community System -PHPNuke PostNuke
Web Logs Moveable Type, Radio Land PostNuke
Publishing Systems - Textpattern, BabelText
Web Based Document Management Systems ???
Information Management Systems ???
E-Commerce Systems ??
Application Server - Zope (it also fits into many other categories here)
I'd like to start a page that degeneralizes CMS systems into an accepted list of
sub-categories that would help persons looking for a CMS decide.
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