Nov
28
I just finally tested out Pligg Beta. I thought it was a CMS...or at least I remembered it as such from when I downloaded it. It's a digg.com act-a-like (not to be confused with look-a-like) when used out of the box and not configured. Supposedly, according to the project leader, it is a CMS (oops). It's pretty easy to configure, install, and run. I think I might even use it as a main page for this site instead of my blog...that is if I ever get off my duff and design an actual website template for myself. This way here it's somewhat more along the lines of my site online as the domain name is supposed to suggest. Visitors would make this site their own...in a different way than I had originally intended, but since I've gone off on other areas of development desire, a packaged solution might be a second best-bet.
I also completed a proper install of Exponent CMS which has so far looked extremely versatile in its use. The only things I'm leary about with it is that I had to force MySQL5 into traditional mode (it runs in Strict Mode by default) to get the install to work properly (don't know if it will affect functionality if I turn it back to Strict mode), and I would have to imagine that because different modules can be designed independently that creating a skin/theme for this would be no easy task. Only one way to tell, play around with it!
I've been looking for the perfect "easy" content management system for some time. So far, PHPWCMS keeps coming up as the clear cut winner. Typo3, with the appropriate add-in for management might have the possibility of winning, but there's just too much of a learning curve for me to want to tackle it. The great thing about Exponent is that the entire thing is module driven...and I don't mean add-on or plugin, I mean modules. You can actually tell the script, in a visual fashion, where to place a module component in the rendering of a page...of any page. It's brilliant. You'll have to check it out to see.
I also completed a proper install of Exponent CMS which has so far looked extremely versatile in its use. The only things I'm leary about with it is that I had to force MySQL5 into traditional mode (it runs in Strict Mode by default) to get the install to work properly (don't know if it will affect functionality if I turn it back to Strict mode), and I would have to imagine that because different modules can be designed independently that creating a skin/theme for this would be no easy task. Only one way to tell, play around with it!
I've been looking for the perfect "easy" content management system for some time. So far, PHPWCMS keeps coming up as the clear cut winner. Typo3, with the appropriate add-in for management might have the possibility of winning, but there's just too much of a learning curve for me to want to tackle it. The great thing about Exponent is that the entire thing is module driven...and I don't mean add-on or plugin, I mean modules. You can actually tell the script, in a visual fashion, where to place a module component in the rendering of a page...of any page. It's brilliant. You'll have to check it out to see.
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