SilverStripe +1 Very powerful for developers, intuitive for users. It's local & it's free. Just launched their new open source website at silverstripe.org and version 2.3 should be ready for release any day now.
On Jan 13, 11:32 am, "Thom Toogood" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone used Squarespace? -http://www.squarespace.com/ > > I would be interested in your opinion. > > 2009/1/13 David Lane <[email protected]> > > > > > > > With most recent Drupal themes (esp. those based on the Zen theme), if > > you're a) logged in, b) have sufficient admin permissions, and c) hover > > of any block on the page, you'll see an edit and a configure link, > > allowing one-click editing - it's not quite edit-in-place, although > > there are some substantial limitations to that model, too (e.g. it > > doesn't make it easy to add UI elements for meta data, etc.) - but it's > > still quite intuitive. > > > An "easy" or "basic" CMS is a nice idea, but ultimately, simple or not, > > a CMS solution for a business needs support (i.e. a vibrant, active > > development community) and a migration path (because no business wants > > to hear: oh, a forum? No, our CMS doesn't have one of those, but we can > > write one for you from scratch) - otherwise it's just another > > fly-by-night one-man-band not-quite-there CMS with no long term future. > > The ground is littered with thousands little in-house CMSs that never > > had a hope of achieving critical mass. I recommend avoiding them. > > > Dave > > > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:52 +1300, Aaron Cooper wrote: > > > Our clients have found SS very intuitive with very little training. Which > > is > > > pretty much an opposite experience we had with the Joomla sites we were > > > doing a while back. They usually got the swing of things after training > > and > > > practise, but generally they found the system quite confusing. > > > > Another attractive thing about Silverstripe is the amount of customizing > > > that can be done to the admin area. But this will require a bit of > > learning > > > of the framework on your part, so maybe not feasable for this job. > > > > Drupal would be my next reccommendation. Although there's a bit of > > learning > > > curve, it has a very fine grain permission system so your clients can do > > > only (and exactly) what you want them to do. After logging in, if they > > have > > > edit permission for a node type, they see an "Edit" button at the top of > > the > > > page > > > on the front end, which is very handy. > > > > I did see a CMS with an "inline editing" system a while ago. Where after > > > logging in, the user can just navigate the frontend as per usual and > > click > > > "edit" on certain blocks of content. A bit of Ajax trickery lets the user > > do > > > it right there without a reload or redirect to a differently styled admin > > > interface. This might be exactly what you are after. I think it might > > have > > > been Modx.http://modxcms.com/quickedit.html > > > > Cheers > > > Aaron > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "anru chen" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:20 AM > > > Subject: [phpug] Re: content mangement system > > > > > drupal and Joomla, i have looked both. > > > > > all of them are complicated CMS, too many buttons, lot of tricks to get > > it > > > > running, not good for end user. > > > > > just a qustion for drupal experts here: > > > > > how hard is to customise drupal to make it end user friendly? > > > > no css, html, just click on a block of text and modify that block of > > text. > > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Craig Cochrane > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Silverstripe gets my tick > > > >> Craig > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > > >> From: "Gold" <[email protected]> > > > >> To: <[email protected]> > > > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:37 AM > > > >> Subject: [phpug] Re: content mangement system > > > > >>> Tonight! On CMS Grandslam... > > > > >>> Drupal Vs Joomla! > > > > >>> As someone that has worked with both; +1 Drupal > > > >>> -- > > > >>> Regards > > > >>> Gold > > > >>> Evolved Development +64 21 > > 248-4653 > > > >>>http://evolved.net.nz/ > > [email protected] > > > -- > > David Lane = Egressive Ltd = [email protected] = m:+64 21 229 8147 > > p:+64 3 963 3733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents > >http://egressive.com==== we only use open standards:http://w3.org > > Effusion Group Founding Member ===========http://effusiongroup.com > > -- > Regards, > > Thom Toogood > +6421608844 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
