cms
Favorite web management software (CMS)
28/11/05 04:40
While not having tried every brand of web site
management software there are a few that I find to be
my favorites.
Postnuke offers a secure and feature rich Content Management System but I have also found it to be a little difficult to administer and write templates for. That being said it has met my needs and I use it frequently.
WordPress is a great and simple blogging tool. Mix that with the possibility to email in your blog articles I like it, especially for its simplicty. There are however some areas that can get a little complex but there has always been a solution.
OSCommerce is a very dynamic E-Commerce solution but it also has a slow moving codebase with most interesting things happening in the Contributions/ add-ons. Very flexible.
phpBB is, overall the best solution. Easy to understand help forums, clean install and easy to understand administrative interface. Then again it doe not try to offer as many features as these other web site management tools and focuses exclusively on being a forums/ bulletin board type information solution.
Finally, more and more people are trying to get me to use Joomla (a recent spinoff from Mambo). While it looks nice from the adminitrative side and is the easiest to use for installing add-on solutions with, I am still too new to it to give much feedback. However, I do like what I see.
- Postnuke: Content Management System
- WordPress: blogging
- OSCommerce: E-commerce
- PHPBB: bulletin board/ forums
- and maybe soon Joomla: Content Management system
Postnuke offers a secure and feature rich Content Management System but I have also found it to be a little difficult to administer and write templates for. That being said it has met my needs and I use it frequently.
WordPress is a great and simple blogging tool. Mix that with the possibility to email in your blog articles I like it, especially for its simplicty. There are however some areas that can get a little complex but there has always been a solution.
OSCommerce is a very dynamic E-Commerce solution but it also has a slow moving codebase with most interesting things happening in the Contributions/ add-ons. Very flexible.
phpBB is, overall the best solution. Easy to understand help forums, clean install and easy to understand administrative interface. Then again it doe not try to offer as many features as these other web site management tools and focuses exclusively on being a forums/ bulletin board type information solution.
Finally, more and more people are trying to get me to use Joomla (a recent spinoff from Mambo). While it looks nice from the adminitrative side and is the easiest to use for installing add-on solutions with, I am still too new to it to give much feedback. However, I do like what I see.