Content Management (5)
Posted in: Content-Management The-architect
Well, it’s been a couple of months and I can only conclude that I never got around to actually completing my comparison of CMS systems. I got side tracked a few times by other activities, and in the end I made a very simple choice. I got rid of Joomla on my company site, because it contained too many features for what I need. Instead, I spent one afternoon and one evening creating a very simple web site based on the CodeIgniter framework, with a backend that allows me to update pages and upload content if necessary. All tailor made, and perfect for my needs.
Check out the front-end results on http://www.delphino-consultancy.nl.
Sorry to those expecting a CMS evaluation, I can only conclude all of them were too bloated for my purposes.
Posted Jun 6, 10:54 PM by Angelo · Comment
Content Management (4)
Posted in: Architecture Content-Management
For some weird reason, I cannot add comments to my own blog at the moment, so I’ll just use a small post to respond to a question posed by Mark Stacey on my initial post about the content management evaluation.
He asked: “what about a free edition of commercial product – like free edt. of Kentico CMS or Sitefinity?”
The answer is short and simple. I am not ignoring commercial products – after all, TypO3 and KnowledgeTree also offer commercial packages with additonal service, and in the case of KnowledgeTree additional functionality. I didn’t come across Kentico and Sitefinity in my initial searches, but maybe I’ll add them in a second batch.
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Posted Jan 11, 02:10 AM by Angelo · Comment [1]
Content Management (3)
Posted in: Architecture Content-Management
In relation to content management, here’s a short update.
In order to test drive the product I’m evaluating, I will perform the following set of ‘tests’
- Installation of product on a local web server
- Account creation and role based acess configuration with an administrator, a content contributor and a visitor
- Create a web portal (if supported) for visitors, based on plain HTML or template
- Create a main page
- Create a news page with a few updates
- Create a documentation page, with 2 documents (non-HTML) and 2 version updates of one of them
For all pages created, I will check how they are accessed as contributor and visitor, and I will evaluate how easy each step is to implement from the roles involved.
Posted Dec 24, 02:13 PM by Angelo · Comment
Content Management
Posted in: Content-Management Architecture
The content management system I use for my company web site is Joomla 1.5. It doesn’t really fulfill my needs at this time, so I figured it was time to start comparing some alternatives.
Right now, I’m using my home system to install five systems next to each other, and see which one does meet my requirements best. Next to these five, a sixth will be installed out of interest, but not for production use, due to some limitation on the part of my hosting pacakage (i.e. it requires a Java environment and I don’t want to spend money on that just now).
The five are:
The sixth one will be Alfresco.
Apart from these six, two options have been discarded based on past experiences on this blog: WordPress and Serendipity.
In a follow blog post, I will introduce my requirements, and over the coming weeks or months the comparison will be completed.
Posted Dec 14, 04:00 PM by Angelo · Comment [2]
