Drupal is on the CMSs I like, and one that works across a range of scales and purposes. Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal is inviting you to tell what you want from it through a survey, whose results will be made public. Drupal has been already hailed as a ready-for-enterprise open source CMS. [Continue]
Packt Publishing has announced the nominees in open source CMS toppers for 2007. You can vote for the CMS of your choice by clicking on it. The voting closes on October 26. [Continue]
Matthew Magain has an interesting story of a competition between two teams, one using an existing CMS and the other doing development from scratch for a web site. The Aussie team chose to use a pre-built, open source CMS (Drupal) while the CodeBlacks (Team New Zealand) chose to build their site from scratch. The CodeBlacks won. [Continue]
I have been a fan of Python and its design right from day one. There are some nuances, but they are ignorable. However, one of the things I really miss while using Python on web are tools like WordPress and Drupal. [Continue]
CMS Watch released their latest report on various open source and commercial CMSs. You will have to buy the detailed report but you can see the criteria used, with Plone on the top. Of course, rankings are just numbers, and they will always cause speculation. [Continue]
One of the discussions with my friends hovered around what to look for in a CMS. With so many available choice surely becomes difficult. Also the fact that many RAD frameworks for Web like Ruby on Rails, Django, Symfony and many more are in the choice-land has only made the selection more difficult. [Continue]
Most of the times we consider accessibility of only the published content. Not of the interface where the content is created or managed. Most popular reason being that the published content is where the meat is, the administration interface of content management interface or the backend is only the means, not the output itself. [Continue]
Ryan Boren discusses adoption of PHP 5 for Wordpress. I see two factions here - the developers who like the goodies in PHP 5 and want to use them, and the application developers who want to make sure that it does not hurt the end users. Both of them are right in their own place, in my opinion. [Continue]
Lorelle points towards the recipe for an ezine and asks about the difference between an online magazine, an ezine and a blog. It is quite true that all these are finally forms of publishing and might end up using similar technology. However, in my opinion, the differences lie outside the technology. [Continue]
Masood Nasser elaborates on the elements of better content management. In a nicely written article, Masood explains that content management is not only about technology. It is important to understand who will use the content, how will the content be used and what content types will be used. [Continue]