Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:46:50 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> To: scott@sremick.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <40603FCA.5020608@stevenfettig.com> In-Reply-To: <kigkdushocm9.17t3bg2fmreqs.dlg@40tude.net> References: <kigkdushocm9.17t3bg2fmreqs.dlg@40tude.net>
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Scott I. Remick wrote: >I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to >know what other people were doing. > >I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it. >Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it. > ><snip> >Most promising seems Plone, which is based upon Zope. But it seems to be >tremendously different from *nuke. The ports version is current and appears >to work, but poking around the Plone site I wasn't able to get a feel for >whether it truly can provide all the stuff I'm looking for. These are >things such as: > >- Discussion forums >- 3rd-party themes (I'm not looking to develop my own themes... I'm looking >to get this up fast. Instead I'm looking for an established community of >Plone-theme creators who like to create custom themes available for >download, so I can pick one that appeals to me) >- Polls >- a variety of other modules/blocks (strength of the *nukes, but couldn't >find a similar following for Plone). > ><snip> > Although a little late, I thought you might want to consider MovableType (movabletype.org). I originally built my own CMS using a bunch of asp and a MS Access mdb database - unfortunately, that really wedded me to a MS server and MS software - plus, adding articles/posts was an absolute pain. This was also before CSS came en vogue and site upgrades were horribly complicated. I then found *nuke and was happy for a while until I had a lot of problems with security and php hacks enabling others to 0wn my website... oh how I hated that message. I did like the *nuke style, though, because there were so many plugins that I could do pretty much anything that I wanted. Then my philosophy on web design changed and I became a minimalist... *nuke was out. A friend of mine finally convinced me to give MovableType a try about two years ago and I've been hooked since. There are a lot of plugins available - although, I really don't use any, as I simply apply my CSS theme to different things that I wanted to *plug in* to my website. So, I can't say how well some of the things you are looking for are supported. I can say, though, that the code is extremely well written and I have never worried about or had anyone hack the site. I'm sure anything is possible, but it is the most reliable and secure CMS I have run to date - and it is *really* simple to set up. Steve Fettig
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