CMS

tony

i was thinking of using a CMS on my site or atleast having a play around with 1 first, ive never used 1 before.
Basically what i want is something that i can easily edit to change the theme/look of my site.
i have a choice of
Drupal
Geeklog
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
Xoops

as these are what come with fantastico and makes life easier for me

CannonBallGuy

All those(or at leats most) are regarded as pretty crap by most experienced masters...
Only n00bs would relaly use 'em...

tony

i am a newbie

ok well could you suggest a few others i could look at?

SEbasic

Mambo is actually pretty good.

What do you actually want the CMS to do for you?

Do you have a budget?

tony

i was looking at mambo thats the 1 i was thinking of going with
i just want to practice really so long as i can edit it to look how i want and can have my ads in there and link and a main part then thats about it

my budget is erm £0.00

summoner49

ADA Baby tony!

zero $$$ is the way I go too!

Looks like we have something in common... lol

Anyways, I have worked with PHP Nuke before, and wouldn't particularly recommend it compared to Mambo, though I have never used it, I have only heard good things about that one.

tntcheats

Mambo's good, though I'm waiting for it to become a little more flexible before I start to actually make websites with it.

It has a lot of nice features, and stuff, but you kind of have to work harder at the start to make it do what you want.

I'm thinking of actually using something like WordPress on my website, it may be blogging software, but it seems like it could get the job done, and displays things like I want them. It's SE-Friendly (I think.. I'll have to double check on that one) it has categories, so I don't need to install a different WordPress for each folder. I also like it better than MovableType, and NucleusCMS (which by the way is BLOGGING software, and in fact not a CMS unless you edit it to become one).
Oh and it's easy as hell to skin.

tony

ive tried 4 CMS and the ebst i can mange is it displaying text...JUST text on a page
so ive given up on the idea

SEbasic

Why give up?

Learning how to do new things is why I enjoy my Job so much.

If it all worked first time, I'd probabally get real bored real quick.

Keep at it. At least the page is displaying. Even if it is only text.

tony

ive been trying for 4 days, and ive tried that many CMS i cant even remember which 1 it was with

im gonna pick 1 find some tutorials and stick with it...but not till after the weekend

voorma

tony wrote:

ive been trying for 4 days, and ive tried that many CMS i cant even remember which 1 it was with

im gonna pick 1 find some tutorials and stick with it...but not till after the weekend

i have thesame i tried so many scripts and cms's i forgot how they called