[Web4lib] About CMS...

[Robin Hastings]

On 8/13/07, Pierre Nault <pierrenault at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     The university library where I'm working for is actually searching for a
> CMS to manage our library web site and intranet. This is our first
> experience with a CMS and we're searching for an Open Source Solution. We
> are experiencing with Joomla (on a local machine) but we found that there
> are some limitations on what you can do with it (few types of users, degrees
> of profoundness of the site (actually two levels); lack of respect for web
> standards; limited workflow; few out of the box options; etc.). We have to
> manage a very big site with different types of users and different types of
> pages (dynamic content), we were thinking about Drupal or SPIP. Is there
> anybody working with these two CMS? Do you have any suggestions regarding
> the choice of a CMS? If you're running your library's web site with a CMS,
> which one are you using?
>
> Thanks.

We are using Drupal for our Intranet right now and planning to migrate
our current site to Drupal in the near future. I tried out Joomla and
Mambo as well, but Drupal seemed to be the easiest for people to get,
and the easiest for me to administrate.

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Robin Hastings
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http://www.rhastings.net