From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 05:47:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FE116A4E0 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EA7543D45 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@stevenfettig.com) Received: (qmail 18086 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2004 13:47:19 -0000 Received: from 66-168-50-57.jvl.wi.charter.com (HELO stevenfettig.com) (66.168.50.57) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2004 13:47:19 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.168.50.57 Message-ID: <40603FCA.5020608@stevenfettig.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:46:50 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040305) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scott@sremick.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: CMS on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:47:21 -0000 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. > > >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). > > > 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