[BNM] Lightweight CMS for small website

Joe Aliferis joe at newforms.co.uk
Thu Oct 18 18:31:44 BST 2007


for CMS - read CMS !

joe

Joe Aliferis wrote:
> of all the opensource CMA apps out there, I rate webGui as the best
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> its written in Perl
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> Joe
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> 
> Hendrik Mans wrote:
>> Hiyas,
>>
>> I realise this probably is a FAQ here, but since there's a new  
>> application of this type every other day, I'm not feeling too bad  
>> about asking anyway (but if you think I should, just call me a stupid  
>> old kraut and I'll shut up.)
>>
>> Basically, I want to re-do a friend's (currently Dreamweaver based  
>> and horribly broken) website. It's a mostly static affair with  
>> nothing more complex than a PHP-based email form. She wants to be  
>> able to edit pages every now and then and also have things like image  
>> galleries and similar. (It's the website for a small language school.)
>>
>> I reckon there's probably a boatload of PHP apps out there that have  
>> all sorts of plugins which would make setting up something like that  
>> painless. I just don't know where to start! A friend of mine has been  
>> telling me to use Typo3, but that thing is simply overpowered for  
>> what I want to do. I haven't tried Joomla or Drupal, are they any  
>> good for that kind of project?
>>
>> Ironically, I have RapidWeaver for these really simple projects and  
>> it would be perfect -- but my friend doesn't use Macs, so she  
>> wouldn't be able to update the site herself.
>>
>> Any help is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Hendrik (1,5w in Brighton and loving it -- I was introduced to Tuaca  
>> at the Farm meetup last night. Heavenly stuff!)
>>


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