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I have a reasonably popular website and currently I'm using Joomla as the CMS.
While it does an essentially decent job, there are a few flaws which are niggling at me. Especially the lack of a proper SEF (search engine friendly) function which leaves me with two choices; either have my image and video galleries quite broken or have my site unable to be indexed by Google and the like.
WordPress is decent but, well, everything looks like a blog (duh) and I don't find it appealing for image and video galleries. Mambo is just Joomla all over again and Drupal appears to lack even the most rudimentary features for a medium-sized image and video gallery (or at least one that integrates into the layout properly).
The only other CMS I know much of anything about is Plone and, bless my little heart, I have no idea how to do anything with it anyway.
If anyone can help or drop some handy little breadcrumbs of advice, that would be awesome.
Can anyone recommend a decent CMS?
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Can anyone recommend a decent CMS?
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Manager pro is a good one, and very, very easy to use. (The version I used was in Hebrew though).
There's another very powerful and versatile one, but damn if I can't remember it's name, something with an E... (I reserve the right to point out "That's the one!")
There's another very powerful and versatile one, but damn if I can't remember it's name, something with an E... (I reserve the right to point out "That's the one!")
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Typo3 is a very good one. Very powerful, but also more complex than Joomla, for instance.
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Drupal has a halfway decent image gallery. Be sure to have pathauto setup appropriately before the new version goes live. It takes some tinkering to figure properly. There are separate modules for determining page titles and meta tags.
For videos... you'd probably have to hack apart the old video module, unfortunately, to get it to work with Drupal 6. While Drupal is insanely awesome, it does not have quite the developer base that Joomla does.
But of course that means coding.
I've gone through boatloads of CMSes, and I ended up writing a custom one for a video sharing site I was hired to do. I'm not aware of anyone outside of Joomla that has a solid video gallery module out for a modern version.
For videos... you'd probably have to hack apart the old video module, unfortunately, to get it to work with Drupal 6. While Drupal is insanely awesome, it does not have quite the developer base that Joomla does.
But of course that means coding.
I've gone through boatloads of CMSes, and I ended up writing a custom one for a video sharing site I was hired to do. I'm not aware of anyone outside of Joomla that has a solid video gallery module out for a modern version.
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Unfortunately it tends to take a lot of that to get what you really want out of a CMS. I was rather disappointed with everything I found out there and eventually settled on Drupal, or rather a modified version of it that would integrate with vB software.Xeriar wrote:But of course that means coding.
You'll likely have to settle on whatever you think is most versatile and hack the shit out of it to get what you want.
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