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davecuse

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Feb 20, 2004
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I've been playing around with a few different content management systems, and I've found that each sort of does what I would like it to. The best two that I have found so far are Mambo and Drupal. What I'm really looking for...

1. Clean xhtml and CSS layout
2. Clean URLs
3. Intuitive admin UI
4. Easy template/module/component creation

Drupal fits the first 2 perfectly, Mambo fits 3 very well, neither fit 4 very well... What have the rest of you experienced?
 

Makosuke

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Aug 15, 2001
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I've also been hunting for a satisfactory CMS, with similar requirements. In my case, I care less about the ability to create modules (or having a pile of add-ons, particularly since there are often far better stand-alone options for the generic forum/gallery/etc plug ins), and more about the ability to create a site structure the way I want and the ability to define an arbitrary set of datatypes based on the particular page template.

That is, most CMS systems seem geared toward blog/news sites, while I want something that'll better handle a content-oriented site--organized sub-categories, each with a number of pages containing an organized data structure.

One I recently ran into is eZ Publish:

http://ez.no/ez_publish/cms

The admin interface and template editing aren't the friendliest I've seen, but it has a huge amount of flexibility in the data templates, and it's a lot easier to use than CMS systems with similar features I've tried. There's a commerical version, but also a GPL one.

Anybody tried this one?
 

davecuse

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Feb 20, 2004
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I've mentioned this in an earlier thread, but I am looking to set up a restaurant menu directory so owners can easily maintain their own. I don't really see an easy way to do this without creating my own custom module. If anyone has ideas I'm all ears.
 
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