On 09/25/10 16:55, Miles Fidelman wrote:
There's 2 simple CMSs which may fit your needs better than Drupal. Firstly look at phpsqlitecms.
The other one I like is cmsmadesimple.
Nice pointers. Any sense of whether either of them are any good at email and list integration (e.g., subscribing to content updates by email)?
I'm sure phpsqlitecms does none of that. The author has built a forum using it. This CMS is unusual in that it is focussed mostly on serving static pages. It's like an templating engine with a config GUI.
Cmsmadesimple has plugin modules. There are modules for newsletters as well as a forms module, blogs, polls etc.
I tend to need that in a lot of the work I do - which tends to
push me to WordPress and Drupal, though their respective email and list integration modules always seem to lag the main release (I miss the OG2list module). For some reason folks who develop CMS software don't seem to do email very well, and people who do list managers don't seem to do web interfaces very well. About the only good open-source combination I've ever seen is groupserver
Yes, I agree, there's some 'opportunities' there.
(http://groupserver.org/groupserver), but development is by a tiny group in Australia, and they've never really built a larger development/support community around it.
Interesting, I've not seen that before. At the moment I'm stuck with mailman - see below ...
My experience with websites in a box it that they're not awfully good, but worse, you get trapped into their web hosting and domain management. If you find don't like like them you've got a hassle extracting yourself and starting again.
Can you say vendor lock-in?
LOL :) I probably could but I wouldn't!
Dick