[Web4lib] Content management systems

[steven turner]

I'm new to this thread, so excuse my late post. My library currently  
uses ModX, a PHP CMS and application framework. Personally, I think  
it's the bee's knees and then some. and I chose it after carefully  
reviewing Drupal, Mambo, and others.

http://www.modxcms.com

Steve Turner

On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Steve McCann wrote:

> Back on the CMS thread, I'm curious if anyone is using e107 for their
> library site? http://e107.org/  It compares well to other OSS CMS
> solutions (via http://www.cmsmatrix.org/) and appears to be used
> fairly widely, internet-wise. We're looking into a migration to a CMS
> this summer, and this is one of our candidates along with drupal and
> mambo.
> -s
>
> On 3/20/07, Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The portability of content is one of the things that originally  
>> attracted me
>> to Drupal.  Previous CMS' that I'd used seemed to be stuck in the  
>> 'news
>> site' paradigm, and had problems dealing with static content  
>> pages, leaving
>> me with no alternative but to write a 'news story' but treat it  
>> like static
>> content - a concept that left a bad taste in my well-ordered-world  
>> mouth.
>>
>> I'd used Mambo previously, and a few in between (Textpattern has a  
>> special
>> place in my heart) but it wasn't until I found Drupal that the  
>> idea of a
>> node being a page, but it can be anything (including a news story,  
>> but not
>> limited to one) that I really liked.
>>
>> Flexinode has been used extensively on one drupal site that I  
>> administer,
>> and I suspect that when we upgrade I'll move that to CCK.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
>
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Steven Turner
Library Web Services Manager
Associate Professor
The University of Southern Mississippi
Cook Library
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