Packt Publishing has selected WordPress as the overall best open source CMS for 2009. The thing to note here is that it is in the category of overall CMS, not just blogging. Hopefully this will make it easier to convince those executives to consider WordPress for web sites. [Continue]
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CMS Is Not At Fault, As Much As Wrong Choice Is
Clay has insightful thoughts about why CMSs don’t work. More often than not, off-the-shelf CMSs become a hurdle in the things we want to do our way. However, I do not think it is only the CMS to blame. [Continue]
Oxite – Microsoft’s CMS Platform
Microsoft has released Oxite – an open source, standards compliant and highly extensible content management platform (via Amit). Also, Oxite is being marketed as a blogging engine. However, the language used seems to put it more as a CMS platform targeted towards developers than a blogging engine for the end users. [Continue]
Content Management Requirements Are Important
Many developers in the CMS domain do not realize that CMS is primarily for those who manage the content. The web site visitors/readers/users benefit from what the content managers can do with the CMS. In short, as a CMS developer, the web site visitors/readers/users are clients of your client, who manages the content. [Continue]
Searching The Meta-Content
While thinking of search strategies for a web application, I realized that a lot of queries can be handled by searching the meta-content instead of the content itself. By meta-content, I mean content about content, e.g., classification, tags, title, intro or authors of an article. Especially in the case I was looking at the meta-content was rich enough to accurately answer a lot of search queries. [Continue]
Will CMIS Strike?
The content management world got proposal for a new standard, CMIS, backed by the three giants in this domain. The introduction reminded me something of the Java world, that was supposed to take the content management world by storm. It has progressed to the next version, but it has not become exactly popular. [Continue]
Tell Drupal What You Want
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]
2007 Open Source CMS Nominees
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]
Pre-built Or Custom?
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]
WordPress And Drupal In Python?
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]
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