You would certanly not need a full-blown CMS for these tasks, but your question makes me wonder if you've perhaps taken a bit of a wrong-headed approach to what a CMS can do for you. Drupal, Joomlia, Plone, and a number of other such products don't only make it easier to permit people with little or no HTML coding experience to maintain certain aspects of a Web site, they also contain a bunch of built-in, tightly integrated modules that streamline and facilitate other functionality.
Drupal is, at least in my experience, almost ridiculously easy to implement, customize and maintain and would give you either out of the box or in add-in modules all of the functionality you've listed here with little or no actual programming. The same can be said of the other open source CMS solutions. What I think I'm trying to say is that when I advise clients these days on the design and implementation of Web sites that are more than just brochureware, I encourage them to begin with a decent open source CMS and only move outside of it if there's some essential functionality they can't otherwise get. At least that's my 11 cents' worth. (Price of opinions has to keep pace with inflation, you know.) Dan On 12/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Say, if I wanted to create a web-site that supports the following functionality, would I need a full-blown content management system like Drupal or Joomla!, or could I get away with something simpler like Contribute and some open-source modules? Needed features: 1) Message boards 2) Local search (searching through past articles that were displayed on the site) 3) Video streaming 4) Filtered rostering 5) Ability to allow 5-6 editors to update text/pictures on certain pages of the site. We're not talking a high-bandwidth site here either - - - could be 800 hits a day, for a non-profit. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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