Okay, I plan on creating a Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 website and want to use a CMS (Content Management System) such as PHP-Nuke or Mambo, but there are hundreds of them! Which is for me?
What I need:
Downloads/Uploads (with pictures) with Categories
Poll
Images
I am also looking for customization ability.
PHPWebSite will give you flexibility that you want with the things you need. Best of all, it takes up less space than Nuke. It'll give your site a bit more of a unique look than all the other CMS copycats using ununique templates that come preinstalled with the system. My suggestion, install a server (like Aache) PHP and MySsl on your computer, download and install several CMS's and test them, then use the one you like.
Last edited by The Conspirator on Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:56 pm; edited 2 times in total Joomla is quite good and it is easy to make changes through the admin panel.
You can use Webinsta CMS, you just need to add the poll and gallery system by using the modules system... the best thing is that you can handle the whole look of your website Joomla is -without a doubt- the best free cms out there. It's highly customizable and their support forums are very active and friendly. There's loads of skins out there too.
| Soulfire wrote: |
Okay, I plan on creating a Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 website and want to use a CMS (Content Management System) such as PHP-Nuke or Mambo, but there are hundreds of them! Which is for me?
What I need:
Downloads/Uploads (with pictures) with Categories
Poll
Images
I am also looking for customization ability. |
In my opinion, the best cms (content management system) is "PHP-Nuke"...
It's very easy to use and also very customizable...
I use it and I like it very much...
Try it!!!its only Joomla i have tried so far. Many have said that PHP nuke is better. What is their difference anyway, what makes PHP nuke better than other CMS.
go try them alll before you choose.
www.opensourcecms.com has every cms you could possibly want already installed for you to test. Not my thread but I was also looking for a CMS. vln004: that link you posted is awesome. Thank you!
I'm currently in the process of vetting a number of CMS solutions for a large scale national website. For the past week, I've been installing and testing different content systems on a home LAMP setup. Anyways, I've tested all of the above, and, at least as of this writing, I can definitely say that Joomla comes out strongest. It is a more complicated system, but more robust and extensible. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT AND UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAMBO AND JOOMLA! They are no longer developed by the same community.
if cutomization is what your looking for, then search no farther. mabo is the best. after you pick a template, you can totally redesign the whole site however you want. plus, lots of addons, and they are easy to install, since mabo does it for you. the only downside is the fact that mambo is hard to admin when you first start out. you'll get the hang of it eventually, but it might take you a couple weeks. but you can sort your webspage however you want, with as many or as little parts as you need. and you can decide how it all looks, since the whole system is flexable. but is probably best to use a differant system while you learn mambo.
Amoung the opensource CMS Typo3 (http://www.typo3.org) is the best one, which is used also by many companies. You can get extensions for nearly everything. But especially the template handling is better than that of Mambo or Joomla, because sometimes the templates does not work as they should (some CSS-orders are ignored). This was the cause, that I changed from Joomla to Typo3.
But the system is more complicate. You need some hours to read the tutorials, but then it should not be a problem to make your own page.
| bboy_nycb wrote: |
| Joomla is quite good and it is easy to make changes through the admin panel. |
its maybe good but its hard to understand the control panel. i used 4 CMS and still one CMS is in my test server to test. what i found, JOOMLA seems not so friendly when it comes to CP. i found it complicated for normal user. | vln004 wrote: |
go try them alll before you choose.
www.opensourcecms.com has every cms you could possibly want already installed for you to test. |
vln004 IS THE MAN OF THIS THREAD! 
