Micky, Sorry, mate. A couple more things. It's www.opensourcecms.com , not .org. Go easy on the comparison check at cmsmatrix.org. If at first you get no results, whittle down your criteria (starting with Root and Sheel Login). So far as open source solutions go, Drupal and TYP03 can both easily handle what you want. If you've got someone in-house who can handle the development (some PHP and templating knowledge, as well as the learning curve) then I'd put my money on Drupal. But be warned, these are enterprise level CMSs.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: digest for [email protected] From: Micky Hulse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:19:29 -0800 Subject: Looking for CMS that meets these requirements: Please advise. Hi all, I hope your December is going well. :) Long story short, I am looking for a CMS that meets as many of the below items as possible (not really in any particular order): 0. CSS/XHTML, RSS/XML, with good to excellent template management system. As table free as possible. Light-weight. 1. Newsletter sign up: HTML format with ability to attach files (pdf, doc, txt...). 2. Member sign up: Members can edit personal content. 3. Admin member management: Admins can add/remove/edit members and member info. 4. On-line payments: Member dues, events, other. 5. Personalized member calendars: Customizable, forward events, set email reminders. 6. Polls/surveys with results: Result/poll archives? 7. Links page: Easily updated via online form (via admin back-end, see #12). 8. Blog homepage: News with ability to post photos or other dynamic content. News/blog archives are a must (via admin back-end, see #12.) 9. Photo gallery, with ability to pull galleries into other sections of site (i.e. sidebar with random image from particular gallery - when clicked, takes you to that particular gallery.) 10. Good SEO and SERPS placement: Related to #0. 12. Admin back-end. Maybe watered-down section for Client, and power-user section for the developers. Related to #3. Hopefully above list is not too confusing. Any ideas as to a CMS that would meet most of my needs? I can only code to a certain point until I am not worth the time... I fall more on the design end of the web developer spectrum anyway, so I am open to hiring a professional programmer to add/edit modules. Any CMS apps that are easily customizable? I am not a fan of, but my first thought is Joomla. I would greatly appreciate the advice. TIA, Cheers, Micky -- Wishlist: Switch: BCC?: My: -- Wishlist: Switch: BCC?: My: ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************
