Hi,
>> No takers? I'll answer the question: Plone.
I'll second that. We've been using Zope for some time in my current
workplace and are now moving to Plone.
Plone comes "out of the box" with good standards support, although you'll
naturally want to customise the look and feel -- you can give a site its own
skin without too much trouble. Plone's templating language uses custom
name-spaced attributes (tal: and metal:) embedded within html tags. Python
is very powerful, and due to its syntax can be relatively easy to pick up.
Plone's very extensible -- you can either write your own add-ons
("Products") or install any of the freely available ones from the
plone.orgwebsite. There's a very active community behind Plone, so
there are always
new products being released.
However, I would stress that there is a steep learning curve with Plone when
you first come to it, especially if you've been used to using PHP/MySQL etc.
solutions but it's worth sticking with. The plone.org site has got a lot of
useful tutorials, so you should check that out.
>From an end user's point of view, Plone is very easy to use. The inbuilt
text editor (Kupu) is also XHTML compliant, so your users are going to be
creating good, clean, standards-compliant code.
So, I'd definitely recommend Plone, but would stress you do need to spend
some time getting up to speed with it.
Thanks,
David
On 12/09/2007, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Web Dandy Design wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between
> Joomla,
> > Drupal or Plone?
>
> No takers? I'll answer the question: Plone.
>
> You'll need Python (pretty rare on servers as a whole) as opposed to the
> far more widespread PHP to run the shebang, but I find it to be far more
> customisable with far more power. Plus, Python Tal and Metal are
> extremely easy to understand and manipulate in the templates (should you
> ever need to).
>
> Drupal and Joomla seem to be far easier to install and get running, but
> after that you're stuck in absolute hell if you want anything other than
> an elaborate blog (granted, that is all people seem to want these days):
> Crucially, there are no link libraries.
>
> Plone (indeed, the Zope beneath it) simulates folders perfectly so you
> basically have a file system logic – and keeps a catalogue of all files,
> pages and sub-elements that can easily be mashed, concatenated or
> referenced from anywhere else.
>
> Plus the number of incredibly advanced products (including such
> wonderful things as TextIndexNG, which can index MS office files and
> make them searchable)... It's hands down to me.
>
> I'd recommend setting up a virginal Plone and installing the
> DIYPloneStyle product to get on your way.
>
>
> Regards,
> Barney
>
>
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