Comments on: Content Management Systems – a bad idea?

By: content management system

content management system — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:23:31 +0000

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By: Josef Telmer

Josef Telmer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:17:36 +0000

It’s a very interesting subject I was looking around about more information but you got really what i was looking for in your article so thanks and keep it up you have a great blog .
I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

By: John conrad

John conrad — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:16:42 +0000

I found your blog by chance . but i have to say that it’s great blog very useful information and very interesting subjects just greetings and good luck
i’m not going i will be always checking for updates.I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

By: Andrey Nikolov

Andrey Nikolov — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:06:26 +0000

Good developers are used to have full control on the code and modeling onto a bunch of generated resources is not efficient as the CMS providers claim to reduce time-to-market. So these CMS systems might be useful for a small sized less complexity and less business logic web sites. The benefit would be for web designers, content providers or other CMS users with no HTML/Javascript/CSS and related background.

By: bozhobg

bozhobg — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:44:04 +0000

Andrej, for my needs, WordPress is ready-to-use software. I’m not customizing it – only write articles. I could do it manually, but then I wouldn’t have the fancy .wordpress.com

Nemanja – I guess you are right to make that clarification – I am talking about general-purpose CMSs, those of the kind I mentioned.
Of course it is better to have a ready issue tracker, calendar, etc, etc, instead of writing those. But these are big systems themselves, here’s why I wouldn’t label them “cms modules”

By: andrej

andrej — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:44:50 +0000

So, why are you using wordpress for this website?

By: philip andrew

philip andrew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:56:34 +0000

I think your using the wrong CMS, I found CMS Made Simple the user could work out how to use it easily.

By: Nemanja Kostic

Nemanja Kostic — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:16:54 +0000

CMS is complicated and overhyped area, but still you need to make a difference between “private-use” and “corporate-use” content management systems.

Claims that you are mentioning are valid for “private-use” CMSs where most of the things can be done manually. Systems like Joomla, Mambo, DootNuke etc. are quite simple and feature poor CMSs.

As soon as you step into corporate world websites (intranet, internet) you will see the true power of CMS s like FileNet, Oracle UCM, Vignette, Communique etc. Some of the features that they offer are workflows, scheduled posts, personalization, high-volume document management, integration with legacy content repositories and really easy to use WYSIWYG editors for non-technical pulishers.

You need army of people to do these things manually.

Nemanja

P.S. no, I don’t work for any of those vendors.