Comments on: 10 Promising Content Management Systems http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: david silvester http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-60761 david silvester Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:52:30 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-60761 Another vote for cmsmadesimple - I think its a fantastic cms - loads of features. The only thing is it can be complicated to use - when Ive used wordpress thats alot more user friendly, but then its alot less maluable than cmsmadesimple. Another vote for cmsmadesimple – I think its a fantastic cms – loads of features. The only thing is it can be complicated to use – when Ive used wordpress thats alot more user friendly, but then its alot less maluable than cmsmadesimple.

]]> By: Stephen http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-56998 Stephen Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:58:25 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-56998 Came across one many years ago, developed in Germany, webEdition (http://www.webedition.de/en/), that has since gone open source last year. Seems pretty big in Germany, and looks to be quite flexible. There is English documentation. Anyone has experiences with that? Came across one many years ago, developed in Germany, webEdition (http://www.webedition.de/en/), that has since gone open source last year. Seems pretty big in Germany, and looks to be quite flexible. There is English documentation. Anyone has experiences with that?

]]> By: Aaron Houghton http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-56439 Aaron Houghton Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:43:57 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-56439 Jacob, Thanks for this great post. You have covered some of the top CMS solutions. My name is Aaron and I am part of the team at Preation in Durham, North Carolina. We have built a new website content management and marketing system for small businesses called Eden. Eden allows anyone to update their website and optimize it for the search engines on their own. We believe that this solution is very important to small businesses because most of them cannot afford search engine optimization services from traditional consultants. I would like to request that you write a review about Eden. I believe that your readers would be interested in Eden’s unique do-it-yourself search engine optimization features as well as the large number of easy website management features including: free professionally designed templates, real on-page editing, drag-and-drop page tree, photo galleries, forms, testimonials, slideshows, video, multi-tier navigation, calendars, and event registration. Full details about Eden’s features are available in the product tour on our website (http://www.preation.com/content/build/4756). Eden is offered with no setup fees and it starts at just $10/month. A 15 day free trial is available at http://www.preation.com/freetrial/. Best regards, Aaron Jacob,

Thanks for this great post. You have covered some of the top CMS solutions.

My name is Aaron and I am part of the team at Preation in Durham, North Carolina. We have built a new website content management and marketing system for small businesses called Eden. Eden allows anyone to update their website and optimize it for the search engines on their own. We believe that this solution is very important to small businesses because most of them cannot afford search engine optimization services from traditional consultants.

I would like to request that you write a review about Eden. I believe that your readers would be interested in Eden’s unique do-it-yourself search engine optimization features as well as the large number of easy website management features including: free professionally designed templates, real on-page editing, drag-and-drop page tree, photo galleries, forms, testimonials, slideshows, video, multi-tier navigation, calendars, and event registration. Full details about Eden’s features are available in the product tour on our website (http://www.preation.com/content/build/4756).

Eden is offered with no setup fees and it starts at just $10/month. A 15 day free trial is available at http://www.preation.com/freetrial/.

Best regards,

Aaron

]]> By: Brian http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-55782 Brian Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:01:47 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-55782 CushyCMS is great for very, very simple and limited updating needs for very small businesses that are completely clueless about anything techy. Another similar, but more robust hosted CMS, is PageLime.com. I have very small companies as my clients and they need simplicity. I kind of like it to... you know... KISS CushyCMS is great for very, very simple and limited updating needs for very small businesses that are completely clueless about anything techy.

Another similar, but more robust hosted CMS, is PageLime.com.

I have very small companies as my clients and they need simplicity. I kind of like it to… you know… KISS

]]> By: Maxwell http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-55567 Maxwell Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:03:09 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-55567 Happy New Year & greetings all the way from East Africa via Canada. Since I came down in these parts for a ONE WEEK business trip in Nov 2005, I got into blogging via Blogger to highlight my "Africa experiences" but I quickly moved over to WordPress after it reached the evolutionary version 2.7 release. Suffice to say, I've been parroting WP down here like crazy and have done quite a few sites using it. My biggest use of WP so far on the web is the Charlie Claw's/Wasini Island company based on the Indian Ocean coast of Shimoni (about a 90 minute drive from Mombasa, Kenya) that offers day tours for dhow sailing, scuba diving, dolphin spotting, snorkeling, etc. Take a peek here: http://wasini.com. But it's 2010 and I'm looking to explore other CMSs that are not necessarily blog oriented from the start. So, after reading this most EXCELLENT article, I'll be taking Concrete5, Typolight (not TYPO3!!), FrogCMS, and some others for a spin on my sexy Linux Mint 8 (based on Ubuntu 9.10 which has Debian roots) laptop, which I'm LOVING after permanently ditching Windoze around November '09. Talk about LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES -- no viruses, worms, trojans, excellent hardware detection of my Huawei 3G USB modems, my Nokia celly, printers & other devices that I'd have to get Windows drivers for, etc. Anyhow, I just wanted to THANK all the coders in the open source movement who really step up to the plate and bring us these great CMS products listed above. Ditto for the peeps behind Linux (and various distros like Linux Mint, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva, etc.), BSD nix, GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, frameworks (like JQuery, CodeIgniter, KohanaPHP, Django, RoR, ModX and tons more), and a plethora of projects too numerous to mention. U guys TRULY rock & deserve a Nobel Prize award instead of these frigging bureaucrat jokers who do jack squat. In the grand scheme of things, where would the world be without open source IT professionals pushing the envelope and developing some truly useful apps for the masses? Just look at the hundreds of thousands of small to large-scale websites that are on the Net thanks to FREE apps like WordPress (or Drupal, Plone, Zope, Joomla, Mambo, etc.), MySQL and languages like PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, etc. as well as with the HELP of these other CMSs listed in this insightful discussion. BTW, nice WordPress blog you got here Jacob...I love the theme!! See folks...WordPress rocks!! :-) Cheers! - Max (aka Max "The IT pro") PS--> I also downloaded Serendipty (aka S9Y) after seeing CMSMatrix (or some similarly named site) using it in an IMPRESSIVE manner. http://www.s9y.org ============ QUESTIONS for CMS Developers: 1 a) Which CMSs allows one to easily implement a rotating header images?? I'm able to do this using the WordPress K2 theme with images of 780 X 200px. Who else does it? Very important! b) Which CMS has a built in facility for rendering the site to Mobile devices (cell phones, PDAs, etc.)?? This is VERY IMPORTANT because most people in Africa are accessing the Net via EDGE/3G cellies!! 2) I use lots of pics in my sites. Which CMSs has a built in gallery that does slide shows and kool Lightbox effects, etc....in an intuitive manner without having to install a damn plugin?? 3) Which CMSs allows me to create forms that can be emailed to me after submission or populates a database? 4) Which CMSs have social bookmarking features built in so that I don't have to install the AddtoAny plugin or something similar for my posts and pages? 5) Which CMSs allows me to do an excerpt (read more) post with an image in an nice, easy manner?? Happy New Year & greetings all the way from East Africa via Canada.
Since I came down in these parts for a ONE WEEK business trip in Nov 2005, I got into blogging via Blogger to highlight my “Africa experiences” but I quickly moved over to WordPress after it reached the evolutionary version 2.7 release. Suffice to say, I’ve been parroting WP down here like crazy and have done quite a few sites using it.
My biggest use of WP so far on the web is the Charlie Claw’s/Wasini Island company based on the Indian Ocean coast of Shimoni (about a 90 minute drive from Mombasa, Kenya) that offers day tours for dhow sailing, scuba diving, dolphin spotting, snorkeling, etc. Take a peek here: http://wasini.com.

But it’s 2010 and I’m looking to explore other CMSs that are not necessarily blog oriented from the start. So, after reading this most EXCELLENT article, I’ll be taking Concrete5, Typolight (not TYPO3!!), FrogCMS, and some others for a spin on my sexy Linux Mint 8 (based on Ubuntu 9.10 which has Debian roots) laptop, which I’m LOVING after permanently ditching Windoze around November ‘09. Talk about LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES — no viruses, worms, trojans, excellent hardware detection of my Huawei 3G USB modems, my Nokia celly, printers & other devices that I’d have to get Windows drivers for, etc.

Anyhow, I just wanted to THANK all the coders in the open source movement who really step up to the plate and bring us these great CMS products listed above. Ditto for the peeps behind Linux (and various distros like Linux Mint, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva, etc.), BSD nix, GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, frameworks (like JQuery, CodeIgniter, KohanaPHP, Django, RoR, ModX and tons more), and a plethora of projects too numerous to mention. U guys TRULY rock & deserve a Nobel Prize award instead of these frigging bureaucrat jokers who do jack squat.

In the grand scheme of things, where would the world be without open source IT professionals pushing the envelope and developing some truly useful apps for the masses?
Just look at the hundreds of thousands of small to large-scale websites that are on the Net thanks to FREE apps like WordPress (or Drupal, Plone, Zope, Joomla, Mambo, etc.), MySQL and languages like PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, etc. as well as with the HELP of these other CMSs listed in this insightful discussion. BTW, nice WordPress blog you got here Jacob…I love the theme!! See folks…WordPress rocks!! :-)

Cheers!

- Max (aka Max “The IT pro”)

PS–> I also downloaded Serendipty (aka S9Y) after seeing CMSMatrix (or some similarly named site) using it in an IMPRESSIVE manner. http://www.s9y.org
============

QUESTIONS for CMS Developers:
1 a) Which CMSs allows one to easily implement a rotating header images?? I’m able to do this using the WordPress K2 theme with images of 780 X 200px. Who else does it? Very important!

b) Which CMS has a built in facility for rendering the site to Mobile devices (cell phones, PDAs, etc.)?? This is VERY IMPORTANT because most people in Africa are accessing the Net via EDGE/3G cellies!!

2) I use lots of pics in my sites. Which CMSs has a built in gallery that does slide shows and kool Lightbox effects, etc….in an intuitive manner without having to install a damn plugin??
3) Which CMSs allows me to create forms that can be emailed to me after submission or populates a database?
4) Which CMSs have social bookmarking features built in so that I don’t have to install the AddtoAny plugin or something similar for my posts and pages?
5) Which CMSs allows me to do an excerpt (read more) post with an image in an nice, easy manner??

]]> By: Optimizacion Web http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-55086 Optimizacion Web Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:42:04 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-55086 And Drupal? j greetings And Drupal? j

greetings

]]> By: Flash CMS http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-54138 Flash CMS Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:37:58 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-54138 First of all thank you for the useful reviews, Jason! But let me add one more thing. These alternatives are great. But I all the same I love Drupal. I’ve chosen exactly this CMS when I had to create a website urgently and had no time to read the documentation. Drupal is mostly intuitive. Also I want to add that any content management system should also provide SEO options for easy search engine optimization. And now CMSs that provide deep linking, 301 reditects, google analytics integration and other important features have more advantages over simple website control panel. In regards to this I want to reccommend FlashMoto Flash CMS. Once again thank you for the awesome article. First of all thank you for the useful reviews, Jason! But let me add one more thing.
These alternatives are great. But I all the same I love Drupal. I’ve chosen exactly this CMS when I had to create a website urgently and had no time to read the documentation. Drupal is mostly intuitive.

Also I want to add that any content management system should also provide SEO options for easy search engine optimization. And now CMSs that provide deep linking, 301 reditects, google analytics integration and other important features have more advantages over simple website control panel. In regards to this I want to reccommend FlashMoto Flash CMS.

Once again thank you for the awesome article.

]]> By: Joseph Freeman http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-53274 Joseph Freeman Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:47:00 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-53274 Great list. Perhaps having included BestSiteEditor CMS(www.bestsiteeditor.com) at least at #11 should be super! Great list.

Perhaps having included BestSiteEditor CMS(www.bestsiteeditor.com) at least at #11 should be super!

]]> By: Game http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-53091 Game Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:09:45 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-53091 Go team MODx. I have experimented with it and am looking forward to using it for a website. Go team MODx. I have experimented with it and am looking forward to using it for a website.

]]> By: Websitestory http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/#comment-52132 Websitestory Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:33:15 +0000 http://sixrevisions.com/?p=198#comment-52132 What about MySource Matrix (http://matrix.squiz.net) or MySource Mini (http://mini.squiz.net)? What about MySource Matrix (http://matrix.squiz.net) or MySource Mini (http://mini.squiz.net)?

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