On 25/02/2008, at 5:29 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]
> wrote:
Does anyone have any good or bad experiences of implementing an open
source CMS for an Australian government website? I am interested in
content management systems that have commercial development support in
Australia, and have been used in a government setting.
The main requirements that I am looking for in a cms are:
* Produces websites adhering to web standards, W3C accessibility
standards and principles of user centred design
Check out SilverStripe. We've been pushing out webstandards-compliant
websites for years, and are even keen to find implementors willing to
try out the new WCAG 2.0 draft guidelines because they will soon be
wanting proof that these guidelines are possible to implement in the
real world. Perhaps you can one of the test cases? Let me know :)
* Has an easy to use admin console and publishing system, with
access to add and move site navigation elements
SilverStripe focuses on an a powerful admin focused on the mindset of
a content author, in contrast to admin systems being overly complex
such that even a clued developer is baffled.
Site navigation elements are moved by a drag and drop.
* Has a single repository for assets with the ability to load
content to multiple areas of a site, including automatically loading
'teaser lines' and links to various pages.
SilverStripe can do this. Note that the underlying principal of
SilverStripe is that it is customisation-ready. No two sites are the
same, so rather than box you into a three column layout, you have
complete control over the look (see silverstripe.com/themes) and the
functionality is controlled through a Ruby On Rails-like programming
framework.
Hope that helps.
Check out silverstripe.com/overview and demo.silverstripe.com, as they
are heaps of other things it can do that you haven't asked for, be it
online image editing, OpenID and microformats support, out of the box
modules, and so on. It is used in many New Zealand government
situations, and has been downloaded and used tens of thousands of
times since it was launched a little over a year ago.
Sigurd Magnusson
SilverStripe
www.silverstripe.com
DDI: +64 4 978 7332
Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08
Skype: sigurdmagnusson
Level 3, 97-99 Courtenay Place
Wellington, New Zealand
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