maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed:
> Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.net> writes:
> 
> >> I'm trying to find a good website management system.  Content
> >> management.  I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl
> >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.
> 
> > http://www.opensourcecms.com/
> > I'm probably going to try a few out, since there's only a couple in the
> > ports.  Among my top candidates are Mambo, geeklog (in ports), drupal
> > (also in ports), opencms, Etomite, and Magnolia.
> 
> While I'm no expert on it, I think Plone may be the most well thought
> out and fully-featured CMS out there; it also looks real nice, right
> out of the box, and is fully buzzword-compliant :-). It runs on top of
> Zope, so there are lots of ways to extend functionality. There are
> also a bunch of add-on Products which can do all sorts of stuff, from
> Wikis to PhotoAlbums.  Zope's written in Python, so it would not be
> leveraging your Java and Perl stuff.  I front mine with Apache but
> it's not required to do so.  Plone's in ports. There are now three
> books on Plone which should help you if you want to go this way;
> McKay's is available online if you want to take a look at what you can
> do with plone.
> 
> http://plone.org/
> http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook

Hmm.  Plone didn't exactly rise to the top at opensourcecms.org, but
since you saw fit to plug it, I'll give it a chance.

I'm not familiar with Zope at all.  Isn't it an Apache *alternative*?

> If you want to stay on the Java side, you could check out Jakarta
> Slide, which calls itself a "low-level content management
> framework". But  that does sound a bit low-level to me.

I thought the same thing.  I was thinking of trying it anyway, but I
think Magnolia and OpenCMS might be based on it - Magnolia is extremely
rich in features, and looks very clean.

> I'm not generally keen on large Perl and PHP suites, even though I've
> written some myself.  Probably just my own phobias.  There's another
> well-featured CMS I've read about -- but haven't played with -- called
> Bricolage.  It's in Perl IIRC. 

I'm with you there.  I've never written PHP, but I've written some perl
mods.  Still, I suppose I should keep an open mind with them, if only to
see if they can beat out the JSP kits.

Thanks for the feedback.

Lou
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