[thelist] Searching for a Light Customer Friendly CMS

[Jose Hurtado]

Rob, Chris and Steve,

Thanks for the suggestions.

I had never heard of Seagull but will most certainly try it, thanks Rob.

About Wordpress, I have used it before, but I find it is mostly a Blog, with
some static content support thrown in, not a real CMS, not even a light CMS
really, mostly a very good Blog system with some static page support.  I
have browsed v2.0 but I see nothing major in that direction now.

Textpattern is very close to what I would want, but I would prefer if it
were much more friendly, and if it had a reliable WYSIWG editor for
articles...

What I find are powerful but too complex CMS systems like Drupal, Zope,
Mambo, Typo 3...nothing that the everyday office worker will swallow.  So
what I would like is some way to isolate the user from the 1000s of features
and give him access to the sections he needs, with as little jargo and extra
stuff to learn as possible, the rest of the interface can be complex but it
should be for the admins only.

I haven't found this yet, as I said, Textpattern looks OK, but still the
user has to learn to understand the whole thing, and even though it is not
very complex, it isn't so simple either.

So I guess no easy answer yet... thanks for the advice!

Jose L. Hurtado
Webdesigner / IT Specialist
Toronto, Canada

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:27:23 +1000
From: Rob Agar <robagar at westnet.com.au>
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       System
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hi Jose

Personally, I like Seagull (seagull.phpkitchen.com), as it's open source
php. But if you have stick that need shaking there are plenty more at
www.cmsinfo.org

hth
Rob


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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:25:59 -0500
From: Chris Johnston <fuzzylizard at gmail.com>


Give WordPress a try. It hits all of your needs except for the access
control and it is very easy to use.

http://www.wordpress.org

Chris

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www.fuzzylizard.com


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:37:43 -0800
From: Steve Lewis <nepolon at worlddomination.net>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Searching for a Light Customer Friendly CMS
       System
To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
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Actually WordPress 2.01 just hit yesterday.  The WordPress 2.0
generation supports more access controls.  The question remains, does it
support enough?



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