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Posted by JDS on 04/10/06 20:11
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:34:47 +0100, Usenet wrote:
> What's the general thought on these?
It depends.
Ho ho ha ha hheeehehehe! Haa hahaha!Ha! ooh i crakka me up. but seriously,
"it depends"
For me, if I have a smallish project that I know will not grow beyond a
coupla dozen pages, and will only ever be maintained by one person or so,
and does not need any features like calnedars or RSS feed or workflow
management or editorial oversight or whatever, then I go as simple as
possible -- a "header", a "footer", and include those into each page
using PHP's include() function. (Or the other way around, a "template"
that includes the *content* into the page based on one query string
variable).
If the project has greater needs, a CMS is probably the most scalable,
flexible, robust, featureful, etc. way to go.
Ask yourself:
What are your needs?
Who is updating the site?
How big is the site going to be?
Will it need additional features that a CMS could provide? (take a look at
all the "plug ins" for open source CMSes such as Mambo, NucleusCMS,
WordPress, and you will see what I mean)
If your needs are simple, then a CMS may be overkill. Tweaking a
full-blown CMS to work (and look) exactly how you want can be a lot of
work. Also, some are easier to tweak than others. And by "tweak" I don't
necessarily mean "program complex features" but, rather, more basic stuff
like adding your own templates and layouts. This can be rather involved.
(Over complicated, IMO)
But if you are happy with the out-of-the-box features and layouts of a
particular CMS, then by all means, use it.
Personally, I have found NucleusCMS to be the right balance of easy to
install, easy to use, easy to tweak (relatively easy), and yet flexible
and powerful. WordPress is similar. But go to http://opnesourcecms.com
for some more info.
later...
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