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    Content Management help please.

    Hi there,
    I have a website called Tech- Reviews -i won't post the link as it may be considered spamming.
    At the moment when adding a review to the site i have to hand code it in and add it to the correct directory, this isn't really ideal anymore as i'd quite like to expand.

    So really i guess i'd need a content management system, a cms which allows me to add sections, categories and pages. I'd want something really lite though, with no modules or anything...just somehting that allows me to add content easily and writes it to a friendly URL like> /reviews/cases/antecp190/index.html

    However i can't find a CMS that allows me to have sections, categories, pages and which writes URL's like that.

    If anybody could help me find one that would be super. Or perhaps, help me build one and i'll you some cash...

    Thanks
    Rhys

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    You've got two options really, as you say, find something out of the box, or code your own.

    I've seen people use PHPNuke as a CMS system, which has themes and the such like, but that will pretty much become your website and you may well have to drop what you currently have, or invest some time integration the PHPNuke output into your existing site.

    The other way is to obviously code your own, but you would need some database and scripting knowledge to achieve this - depends on your background knowledge really and how much time you have spare!

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    I believe CMSMS.org will do what you're looking for, or PHPNuke as above.

    Wordpress is supposedly good too.

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Have you looked at the Wikipedia software? It doesn't produce .html references, but they're still quite straight-forward to setup.

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Something I've certainly dealt with

    Any decent system will allow a good Content module - to allow Sections and categories.....

    Many will allow out-of-the-box friendly urls - but sadly not all of them.

    Although I'm not involved with it (I am actually tester on another CMS project) - Drupal has quite friendly urls... i'd avoid mambo/jamoola as they are not.

    I do have my own suggestions - but they're biased

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    I used joomla a while ago and thought it was pretty easy to use. Easy to set up but as david said the urls arent the most friendly

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    It's one of the things that makes it very unfriendly.

    (That and it's rather complex for its own good... and the permission structure is rather limited to me)

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Wordpress is pretty good system - designed for blogging, but sounds as if it would do what you require - publish a review and then invite comments. You can use it ready to run at Wordpress.com or install it on a suitable host. It needs MySql and php to operate, so your host needs to support those applications, and it works well with apache, so although not essential (as all those will run under a windows platform, it works really well under unix or linux. If your host doesn't support Wordpress 'natively', you can download the code from wordpress.org and upload it - or you can host it yourself (which is what I do) - but you still need MySql and PHP support. (Wordpress, MySql, php and Apache are all open source)

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    Another more flexible approach might be drupal, which gives greater customisation to generate the look that you want. (Drupal is also open source)

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Wordpress is certainly a recommendation for purely text sites.

    Don't let it being a "blogging tool" put you off...

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    I'll have to have a look at wordpress then as it sounds like it could be a good quick option. I use to use joomla for my site but got so fed up with all teh additional modules and stuff which i didnt really need i just decided to ditch it. So It looks as though with a mixture of wordpress and custom php pages i should be able to create something to my requirements.

    My ICT teacher has also just recommended Drupal so I guess I may as well give that a good try as well.

    Cheers for all the help though guys and keep making suggestions, maybe someone should create a sticky for recommended CMS's ?

    Thanks
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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Droopy is ok - but I don't think I'd recommend it for a new beginner.

    Wordpress could be a good starting block for a new user..

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Cheers for the help... i've just taken up a challenge and decided to build my own CMS for the site. So far i've coded a poll, news submission system, reviews submission system and am now doing ajax rating stars

    So far so good, i'll show you when im done

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Take a look at ExpressionEngine - very flexible, simple to start with but you can go very far with it.

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Ap0llo - what language are you using?

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidM View Post
    Ap0llo - what language are you using?
    PHP 5, XHTML and CSS if thats the answer your looking for...

    Quote Originally Posted by chadders View Post
    Take a look at ExpressionEngine - very flexible, simple to start with but you can go very far with it.
    I'll google that now... cheers chadders

    At the moment ive got a poll done, phpnews for adding news to the front page and am now working on a way of managing the adverts and easily adding reviews to the site.
    It's beginning to be trickier than i thought although i am starting to like working with php.

    I need to work out some sort of quick solution that will enable a reviewer to easily add a review to the site.



    I was thinking of maybe having some admin section on the site where the reviewer simply fills in an online form with all teh details for the review where it then gets submitted to a database and is loaded through the site...only thing is i'm not quite sure how im going to do this :S

    I've just been looking at some more news management scripts which i could perhaps use and found this one> SimpCMS - heavy
    Last edited by Ap0llo; 24-12-2007 at 08:53 PM.

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    Re: Content Management help please.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ap0llo View Post
    I was thinking of maybe having some admin section on the site where the reviewer simply fills in an online form with all teh details for the review where it then gets submitted to a database and is loaded through the site...
    Yes that sounds really quite plausible

    Post some questions, i'm sure there are people who can help.
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