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[_] Open CMS systems

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 09:56:57 BST 2006

On 03/10/06, Dan Efergan <dan at subsubskills.co.uk> wrote:

> What are people's favorite Open Source CMS's. Is Drupal the one?
> I've had a look though Open CMS but thought to get a bit of real
> world feedback.

I've used Drupal. What's good: the community and the architecture of
the system (APIs, modules etc.). What's not so good: its usability.
I've been asked to train someone (an office admin) in adding events, a
task that I find tedious in the extreme. I'm >< this close to ditching
the Drupal site and replacing it with an iCal-parsing event display
page, with Google Calendar as its data store.


> I guess end purpose is quite important, I'd love to find a Compliant
> (No god damn tables) CMS with a Client friendly back-end. Any
> suggestions?

Good luck. Minimal googling seemed to indicate that all the major CMSs
have incredibly poor usability.

Take a look at my cms tag on del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/t1mmyb/cms

Tim