Also opencms and alfresco both Java/J2EE On Aug 17, 7:09 pm, Stefan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll chime in here since I've been evaluating several CMSs lately. > > I previously used Drupal and WordPress as my CMSs - now however I'm > moving everything to MODx because of the increased flexibility and > more-logical organization, and I'm also impressed with the demos of > SilverStripe, TypoLight Typo3 - and LifeRay, which is written in Java > instead of PHP. (LifeRay seems to be much more than a CMS - it claims > to offer collaboration and social networking.) > > Some on-line demos here: > > MODx -http://trymodx.com/ > SilverStripe -http://demo.silverstripe.com/ > TypoLight -http://www.typolight.org/demo.html > Typo3 -http://testsite.punkt.de/ > LifeRay -http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home > > It would be good to take a look at these additional CMSs as they offer > some capabilities beyond WordPress and Drupal. > > Drupal in particular is wildly popular but it may no longer be the > best candidate to imitate, as it is less well-organized and less > flexible/customizable (compared say to MODx, which lets you take CSS > from an existing site and use it for your site, and which lets you > apply a template to a single document, unlike Drupal where a theme > applies to the entire site). To keep up with advanced CMSs, Drupal has > evolved to use a bunch of (often redundant or competing) modules which > are not always compatible with current releases. Examples of things > that Drupal treats as "add-ons" (modules) are: custom content (the > "CCK/Views" modules, with their confusing albeit AJAX-y interface), > multi-language, and photo galleries (I gave up on Drupal after a few > days of trying out various photo gallery modules, none of which I > could understand). Finally, it seems odd that Drupal, as a "content > management system", lacks something all advanced CMSs have: a > *treeview* of the overall site content. Instead, it only has a jumbled > *list* of content, sorted by not by location but by last edited (!), > with all translations also scattered through the list based on last- > edited date, and this list is buried several levels deep in the admin > navigation system, unlike the site content treeview navigator which is > prominently displayed (usually on the left) in advanced CMSs. (Of > course, I don't want to veer off-topic here and start a CMS flame war > here in this liftweb discussion. :-) > > Regarding "dynamic site map" creation - I do know that MODx has > something like this, using WayFinder to create a menu from selected > branches of the site's document tree, automatically including any > updated sub-branches, and I believe most other advanced CMSs have > something like this too. > > LifeRay seems very intriguing - it claims to do a lot beyond just CMS. > Since it's written in Java (not PHP), who knows if some of its code > could be leveraged in Scala. > > So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind > (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. > > - Stefan Scott > > On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Philip, > > > I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now, it allows for content > > creation using wymeditor, which can be > > tagged and displayed as an atom feed. This code is runnable, simple as > > it is. I'm working on adding dynamic site map creation as well. Is > > this kind > > of what you have in mind by a CMS system. > > > I'm very interested in workiing with others on a CMS that can compete > > with any of the PHP varieties out there, such as Drupal and Wordpress. > > Most of these simply use plugins from one ore more javascript > > libraries out there for site creation, and Lift certainly can do > > javascript as well as, if not > > better than, these systems. > > > Glenn... > > > On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, philip <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. > > > > Thanks, Philip
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