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Hi All, another request for info and recommendations.

A mate (yes, really, it's not me) is looking to revamp a website and wants to use a Content Management System or even Wordpress to do so. He needs to have certain parts of the web site passworded so only certain members can get access. And it has to be relatively straightforward to use. He's not worried if it is mySQL or some other flat database format. It just needs to work. It will not be a large site, fairly small to be realistic.

I use Wordpress on a site, mainly as a CMS with the blogging bit fenced into a corner. I was wondering if anyone out there has used a CMS appication and has any recommendations.

Cheers!
 
Well since I use Joomla i'd recommend that cms, you can choose whether people have to register/login etc, in fact you can configure it in all ways, plus you have the added option of all the add on components, modules etc around aswell, but this is just my opinion since im used to Joomla now.
 
Drupal is pretty interesting... its kinda out there but its not that bad... altho in perspective lm not the lazy type (l dont mean that rudely) l tend to design my own stuff or massively build upon things depending on the design.
 
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Esselbach is a good one too, very lightweight on the server which is why we may adopt a custom version of it in the future. However I'd wait for v2 as the current v1 code has had its day.

For me the problem has always been forum integration, you only want one member database and incompatible systems can limit your choices. One downside to Wordpress is that the forum integration options are limited, it just hasn't been designed with that in mind.
 
Cheers guys.

Another suggestion, by "she who must remain nameless" is found at

http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/

So there appears to be a number of options. I will point my mate to these options, then I guess we will be having a get together to check out the options (I'm the helpful type) He also needs to persuade the organisation to move to a hosting package that supports mySQL.

Timeless... lazy? :eek: :mad: :drool: Well, yes I am. I changed my church website to Wordpress because the people who did Wordpress themes are much better at design than me, and I can change the design very easily. I was able to give church members accounts so they could add content without doing ftp and web authoring, or bothering me to do it for them. Still didn't galvanise them into providing content though.

I think my mate wants to use CMS for a similar reasons, plus he wants "protected" content like organisation information to be available to the right people.

MarkJ (all hail the leader) Always wondered what the move to server based scripts would be doing to the servers! I've never had an inkling to do a forum (why should I? I have ISPR) but my mate might want to.

Thank you again, guys. I always get useful answers on here.
 
OK, found what I think is a brilliant site:


http://www.opensourcecms.com/


This actually lets you run online demos of CMS / Blogs and a whole lot of other things I dont understand. It actually allows you access to the admin side of things so you can see how they work.
 
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