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hsapiens
18 November 2005 @ 05:25 pm
Content Management System Recs?  
I'm pondering using a CMS for my website. Mostly, I'm curious about it. I don't really have a lot of content or a wide variety but I want it to integrate better -- and I want to avoid the need to mark new items with pics and update an index page or three every time I add something.

Anyone have recommendations for programs they like? Or is this really a huge investment of time that's worthwhile only when you have an active community site that generates piles of content? My website co-owner is delving into drupal, which seems quite powerful, but perhaps more powerful than I need.
 
 
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[identity profile] bassfingers.livejournal.com on November 19th, 2005 12:19 am (UTC)
Back in my programming days I wrote my own content management system that I used on my personal web-page for a while. It eventually got replaced with MovableType, since most of the content I was updating was bloggish text anyway. Once the comment and trackback spammers started attacking, though, I pretty much left that behind and moved more of my updating to LiveJournal. I've played a bit with some others, but didn't commit to the switch. There was a recent write-up here comparing some of the current players in the market (again, with a blog bent more than anything else, but in a lot of cases, they can work for general content as well).
Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on November 20th, 2005 02:09 pm (UTC)
Thanks for the link! I'd never thought of using my Word Press installation as a CMS. I looked at the example they cited that seemed to involve photos and I see the guy had integrated his Word Press and Gallery to work together. I like that - and had read that Gallery was well-suited for integration - but I hadn't thought of that sort of application.

I wonder if Coppermine would do that (reasonably) easily? The Coppermine help boards crash my Mozilla, forcing me to read them using IE. I haven't explored the program's full help as a result. I'll look over at Word Press's support boards. Thanks for the thought food.