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Recommend me a simple CMS

Canuckkev

Canuckkev

Doctor Hexagon
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I've played the whole CMS game a few times. Never found one I liked.

Mambo/Joomla was always just too damn hard to get working properly.

This is what I need:
  • Simple cms. Not really a 'blog' style. Something I can build a simple (maybe 5 category) web site, with the possibility of having a second level of content. So I could have a "About site" as one of the main 5 categories, then say 5 or 6 sections below the "About site" category.
  • Navigation on every page...maybe have the current category "expanded", others collapsed. That might be skin thing, might not.
  • Multiple skins available to get me going.
  • Don't need user accounts and whatnot. Only going to be one user.
  • Don't need anything else fancy, like..forums, RSS feeds, uploads, any of that.
  • As for the backend...it isn't a big deal. PHP/MySQL would be good. But really, anything that I can get going on a Linux box.
  • Also, I'd prefer if it had some nice URLs. Not things like "cat=Category&page=1". If it can handle Apache URL rewriting, that would be good. Then the page could be something like "domain.com/Category" or whatever.
 
Gopzap said:
This is what you need.

http://www.cmsimple.dk/

More skins are available at http://www.dotcomwebdesign.com/.
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Excellent, thanks, I will check it out. I also was trying out http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ . It seemed okay, haven't given it a good spin yet.

As for building one, well, that wouldn't really be building a CMS. It would be building a site. I can hack together any PHP code to do what I want, but I figure I would check out if there is anything good enough for my needs already. Plus, I really lack the skill and patience to be a designer. If I can find a purdy skin, with maybe some minor tweaks, I'm sure it will be better than what I can produce from scratch.
 
Hmm, the cmsimple one didn't leave me feeling very confident in the quality and security of the code.

It looks like I'll go with http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ . It is some very nice software. Probably not all the features of some of the fancier CMS's, but I could stand it enough to get going. Works as expected, without any bugs so far. In other CMS's I've tried, when setting up just the SIMPLEST website, I often have run in to numerous bugs. Worth checking out, I'd say. Any looks like it has some nice ways to plugin custom content into the pages.
 
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