Comments on: A Simple CMS http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/ Fri, 06 May 2011 07:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PHP Projects http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-174111 PHP Projects Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:18:52 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-174111 And after testing and reading numerous systems I found Concrete5 :) which is without doubt the best CMS for medium to small websites, no doubt it can’t compete with Drupal for large feature rich websistes ala the BBC, but for everything else the user friendliness and easy template system makes me wonder why I ever had to lose so many brain cells and endure headaches setting up a Joomla system And after testing and reading numerous systems I found Concrete5 :) which is without doubt the best CMS for medium to small websites, no doubt it can’t compete with Drupal for large feature rich websistes ala the BBC, but for everything else the user friendliness and easy template system makes me wonder why I ever had to lose so many brain cells and endure headaches setting up a Joomla system

]]> By: justinjools http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-172818 justinjools Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:58:09 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-172818 Try concrete5: next generation CMS, with user friendliness, easy interface and easy development in mind Try concrete5: next generation CMS, with user friendliness, easy interface and easy development in mind

]]> By: Necie http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-172355 Necie Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:48:20 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-172355 I have experience with php, Wordpress and others. I have not been successful at creating a CMS site. I would like to create a light user friendly CMS site and I'm afraid I'm going to have to fork out a lot of money for it too. I have experience with php, WordPress and others. I have not been successful at creating a CMS site. I would like to create a light user friendly CMS site and I’m afraid I’m going to have to fork out a lot of money for it too.

]]> By: JustinJools http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-166200 JustinJools Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:03:56 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-166200 Concrete 5 will make you smile :) Concrete 5 will make you smile :)

]]> By: JustinJools http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-166199 JustinJools Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:01:21 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-166199 Having used Joomla (what a mess) and Wordpress, I recently researched the best CMS for a client. And after testing and reading numerous systems I found Concrete5 :) which is without doubt the best CMS for medium to small websites, no doubt it can't compete with Drupal for large feature rich websistes ala the BBC, but for everything else the user friendliness and easy template system makes me wonder why I ever had to lose so many brain cells and endure headaches setting up a Joomla system (I am still unfortunate enough to be migrating a Joomla site from test to live but hopefully my last view of Joomla's big fat hairy arse I have to see again. Wonderful C5: clean, light and a breeze for both user and developer. I wonder what the future of Joomla will be if it doesnt take not! Having used Joomla (what a mess) and WordPress, I recently researched the best CMS for a client. And after testing and reading numerous systems I found Concrete5 :) which is without doubt the best CMS for medium to small websites, no doubt it can’t compete with Drupal for large feature rich websistes ala the BBC, but for everything else the user friendliness and easy template system makes me wonder why I ever had to lose so many brain cells and endure headaches setting up a Joomla system (I am still unfortunate enough to be migrating a Joomla site from test to live but hopefully my last view of Joomla’s big fat hairy arse I have to see again. Wonderful C5: clean, light and a breeze for both user and developer. I wonder what the future of Joomla will be if it doesnt take not!

]]> By: Simon Hildebrandt http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-64662 Simon Hildebrandt Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:01:42 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-64662 I think Ian's describing something a lot simpler than any of these suggestions - maybe something more like scratchSite, a quick hack CMS I wrote a few years ago. It's a single PHP file, a single JS file and a single CSS file. It does a single flat list of pages based on a single template. You download it, customise the template, stick the lot on some cheap PHP hosting and you're done. Stupidly simple auth, in-place content editing and serialised data store - as a Zope/Plone developer these days I'm horrified at how ugly a hack this is, but it's exactly what the doctor ordered for the user. Wow, I've even got the code still floating around: http://code.google.com/p/scraps/source/browse/#svn/trunk/scratchSite/source A sequel with hierarchical pages, better auth and fancier editing was planned - maybe someday, if enough low-tech friends ask me to do websites for them. :) I think Ian’s describing something a lot simpler than any of these suggestions – maybe something more like scratchSite, a quick hack CMS I wrote a few years ago.

It’s a single PHP file, a single JS file and a single CSS file. It does a single flat list of pages based on a single template. You download it, customise the template, stick the lot on some cheap PHP hosting and you’re done. Stupidly simple auth, in-place content editing and serialised data store – as a Zope/Plone developer these days I’m horrified at how ugly a hack this is, but it’s exactly what the doctor ordered for the user. Wow, I’ve even got the code still floating around:

http://code.google.com/p/scraps/source/browse/#svn/trunk/scratchSite/source

A sequel with hierarchical pages, better auth and fancier editing was planned – maybe someday, if enough low-tech friends ask me to do websites for them. :)

]]> By: Karl Voss http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-18817 Karl Voss Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:51:13 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-18817 Maybe nanoc? http://nanoc.stoneship.org/help/manual/chapter-1/ Maybe nanoc?

http://nanoc.stoneship.org/help/manual/chapter-1/

]]> By: bycco http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-18399 bycco Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:54:54 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-18399 What about LTSun, snewscms or webyep? What about LTSun, snewscms or webyep?

]]> By: Daniel Ritchie http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-15981 Daniel Ritchie Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:00:27 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-15981 Ian, I thought of you again, when I reached the end of the GoPHP5 projects list, and found [Thacmus](http://sourceforge.net/projects/thacmus/). Ian, I thought of you again, when I reached the end of the GoPHP5 projects list, and found Thacmus.

]]> By: Daniel Ritchie http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-15768 Daniel Ritchie Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:27:45 +0000 http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/02/05/a-simple-cms/#comment-15768 I checked out [PureEdit.com](http://www.pureedit.com/) and found that a page on that site, built in PureEdit, is sitting open with world writeable edit feature. I didn't look for more pages, and the other people who found it before me were nice about it too. He's lucky. I checked out PureEdit.com and found that a page on that site, built in PureEdit, is sitting open with world writeable edit feature. I didn’t look for more pages, and the other people who found it before me were nice about it too. He’s lucky.

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