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[syredronning]

Oh...oh. I'm checking a new, very interesting CMS candidate named "Plone". Not only does it have a beautiful user manual for beginners, but it also seems to offer multiple categories per page and all! It sounds almost too good to be true *holds breath while installing*

Oh, and is it already Thanksgiving again?!

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[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I shall monitor your progress. We seem to end up building each client their own CMS no matter how hard we try to use something off-the-shelf.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

We seem to end up building each client their own CMS no matter how hard we try to use something off-the-shelf.

I can imagine that! There are so many, but for a certain purpose with certain demands, only very few seem to qualify. And as much as I love blogs etc, their overall features are just not on the CMS level.

I had a look at PHPFushion and PHPNuke again and both suck regarding their community support. Plone seems to be really well-established right now, with support by companies and users in an official foundations.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't been happy with PHPFusion either.

We end up building a lot of custom CMS partly because we specialize in clients who have no clue what they're doing. *g* They've generally got one or two programs (Word or Quickbooks, for instance) that they're comfortable with (which doesn't mean they actually use them very well), and they *really* don't want to learn any more than they have to. So we often custom-build a bridge between their system and whatever they need online, protecting them from as much technical knowledge as possible.