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Content Management

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  • 30-08-2006 12:36am
    #1
    DaveH
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭


    Hi,
    Can anyone recommend a good content management package. www.rahenyshamrock.com is a site i administrator(this verision isnt mine). We currently looking into an upgrade. What were looking for is so that the PRO can upload news stories easily and all users can upload pictures.

    We using mambo at the minute...which is crap imo. I know its free!
    Also would preference to have the site written in html, due mainly to uploading results etc.

    Any advice please?


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    I always though mambo was bollocks tbh, you'd probably be best off just using wordpress and fleshing it out a bit.


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    cianuro
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭cianuro


    Why do you think Mambo is Crap?
    Mambo/Joomla are some of the best, world class content management systems out there. I use Mambo for about 20 sites.

    yours seems to have just a pretty basic install. You can use the built in wrapper to display your results or get a custom coded module for updating them.


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    never liked joomla/mambo...too much bloat and not enough functionality on the default installation imo

    A CMS should be lightweight. I'd go for either Wordpress or Drupal. Nice and small and a lot easier to design layouts for.

    You can spot a Joomla/Mambo site in an instant /generalisation


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    cianuro wrote:
    Why do you think Mambo is Crap?
    Mambo/Joomla are some of the best, world class content management systems out there. I use Mambo for about 20 sites.
    Perhaps it's just me, but they're quite inaccessible for a new user or someone with only one website. The admin interface isn't very intuitive, and there's very little in the way of help while you're working on it. Granted, it's a community effort, but it's so polished and stable you think they'd make it easier than having to read the entire manual before you can begin.


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    tomED
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭tomED


    Personally I suggest Typo3. We use this on most of our client sites and find it very easy to use.

    I have to admit, it's not lightweight and when you are starting out, it's a pretty big learning curve.

    But, in saying that, it's a very very powerful CMS that gives a developer a lot of control.

    www.typo3.org

    Tom


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    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    www.xoops.org

    Have a look through the modules section a child can do it.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    tomED wrote:
    Personally I suggest Typo3. We use this on most of our client sites and find it very easy to use.

    I have to admit, it's not lightweight and when you are starting out, it's a pretty big learning curve.

    But, in saying that, it's a very very powerful CMS that gives a developer a lot of control.

    www.typo3.org

    Tom
    I'd have to agree. It's really powerful and flexible.

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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    CuLT wrote:
    I always though mambo was bollocks tbh, you'd probably be best off just using wordpress and fleshing it out a bit.
    from what I have seen - you would have to have an idea of a php to get it to not look like blogging software.

    I would go with either Drupal or Joomla. I have used Joomla alot and find it excellent but I have yet to try drupal - I hear great things about it. Typo3 is very impressive alright but takes a long time to get the hand of.
    DaveH wrote:
    We using mambo at the minute...which is crap imo.
    What makes it crap?
    DaveH wrote:
    Also would preference to have the site written in html, due mainly to uploading results etc.
    Please explain.


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    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    try SOeditor


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    heggie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭heggie


    i happen to like textpattern.


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    DaveH
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭DaveH


    axer wrote:
    from what I have seen - you would have to have an idea of a php to get it to not look like blogging software.

    I would go with either Drupal or Joomla. I have used Joomla alot and find it excellent but I have yet to try drupal - I hear great things about it. Typo3 is very impressive alright but takes a long time to get the hand of.


    What makes it crap?

    Please explain.

    We organise a few big races every year. The software that produces the results produces over say 2000 results "finish no. Race no. Name. Club. time) in a basic HTML document. That why I have that preference.


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    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    There's another vote for Drupal here - very nice system, I've found.


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    DaveH wrote:
    We organise a few big races every year. The software that produces the results produces over say 2000 results "finish no. Race no. Name. Club. time) in a basic HTML document. That why I have that preference.
    You can copy and paste the html into the wysiwyg editors that come with joomla and drupal.


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