Recommend me a CMS...

[zippypinhead]

Garfield have you ever tried these packages. Answer No.

1.The broad assertion that asp.net based CMS only look in IE proves you are talking complete nonsense.

2.You dont need designers to create gook looking sites with the products I am refering to. The question was posted by someone who did not have professional designers and devs at their disposal and was looking for a quick and easy solution that looked good.

3. The MS usabilty remark is so stupid it is barely worth answering and proves you do not know what you are talking about.

I knew some idiot would flame me for daring to suggest a microsoft based solution but I think these are good products for people without coding or design skills or otherwise.

 

[pk]

Well I've just commissioned a £20k motor racing website project based around CMS, it's quite simple stuff, and we need it within two months hence the larger than normal budget.

I'll ask my designer which one they're using. I haven't a clue about this kind of shit.

 

[fogbat]

CMS you say?

One Compact Muon Solenoid.

Ithangyew.

I don't know what it is, but I want one

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Garfield have you ever tried these packages. Answer No.

1.The broad assertion that asp.net based CMS only look in IE proves you are talking complete nonsense.

2.You dont need designers to create gook looking sites with the products I am refering to. The question was posted by someone who did not have professional designers and devs at their disposal and was looking for a quick and easy solution that looked good.

3. The MS usabilty remark is so stupid it is barely worth answering and proves you do not know what you are talking about.

I knew some idiot would flame me for daring to suggest a microsoft based solution but I think these are good products for people without coding or design skills or otherwise.

yawn come back when you know what you are talkign about foolio...

 

[kyser_soze]

I don't know what it is, but I want one

It's the LHC experiment where they'll find the Higgs boson...or not.

 

[zippypinhead]

Garfield.

Professional web developer or litttle boy.

Little boy

 

[MullahNasrudin]

nonsense...

you get a professional looking layout in anything if you have the dev's and designers to do that work...

moreover in any .net application you aren't user acessable or follow standard usiblity actions as it's M$'s way or nothing...

sites that look great in IE only are destined to be under used as more and more people move away from what could only be described as the worlds worst browser...

Not that I use .Net as I favour LAMP et al, but all the .Net stuff I've seems to be very standards-compliant on the client-side, which came as a surprise to me. So I vote with Zippy and say you are talking a load of Garfield LeShite!

 

[zippypinhead]

All content management systems regardless of the server side language used process the server side code on the server and return HTML to the browser. It is possible that a CMS could be designed that did not serve up html that was compliant with the major browsers but you could not give away such a product much less sell it.

The quality of the controls and ease of use of telerik and kentico free versions has impressed me and for someone starting without professional help or resources I think you could get a better looking CMS faster than using Joomla which is also a very good product.

 

[pinkychukkles]

I've installed textpattern to use as a CMS, haven't had a chance to put up any content as yet. What's everyone's opinion on it? Worth it or has been superceded by some other open source CMS?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Well I've just commissioned a £20k motor racing website project based around CMS, it's quite simple stuff, and we need it within two months hence the larger than normal budget.

I'll ask my designer which one they're using. I haven't a clue about this kind of shit.

I'd be interested to know what CMS they are using for this project

 

[boskysquelch]

http://stefdawson.com/cockmuffbumhole

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I've installed textpattern to use as a CMS, haven't had a chance to put up any content as yet. What's everyone's opinion on it? Worth it or has been superceded by some other open source CMS?

Textpattern is pretty good - easy to understand (especially for a front-end developer familiar with HTML), large and active community, pretty simple to get it to do most things, and it's easy to extend it with additional functionality via plugins.

Drawbacks are a fugly admin area (IMO, others have said they prefer it to more complicated types), no WYSIWYG content editing (AFAIK, this might have changed), and the admin is entirely focused on being a blog so if you're using it as a CMS you might have to hack the language files to change some of the labels.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Garfield.

Professional web developer or litttle boy.

Little boy

Not that I use .Net as I favour LAMP et al, but all the .Net stuff I've seems to be very standards-compliant on the client-side, which came as a surprise to me. So I vote with Zippy and say you are talking a load of Garfield LeShite!

intresting...

thanks for the constuctive input...

 

[pk]

I'd be interested to know what CMS they are using for this project

I asked him - he's custom written one for this project, based upon tried and tested models of previous CMS shells he's designed before.

Which is good, because much of it, most in fact, is to be encypted for subscribers only, so the added security is good - nobody can crack it open like they could a Joomla system, for example.

He did go on to explain the process, but I glazed over and said I'd take his word for it...