syawilim — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:11:34 +0000

Chek out Drupal it has built in a blog, forum, search and collaborative book features along with all the standard CMS stuff. There are heaps of contributed modules. It's pretty easy to configure and there are a lot of templates available which are also not to hard to customise once you get your head around it.

As with most open source support can be a bit of a problem unless you ask the right question in the right way, but with a bit of seaching you can find answers to most questions.

dojo — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:36:19 +0000

Well I use Nuke for 3 sites, although I have made the forums standalone phpBB since I had some issues with the mods I wanted installed.

Since I don;t have the time to learn PHP so well in order to develop a good CMS and I don't have the disposition I just use it. It's free and good. I'd rather spend my time creating articles, taking care of my members and so on than to try to deliver a CMS that would be good. The CMS communities are huge and there are some people who really know what they are doing. I don't want to compete with them, I just want to use the result of their hard work

Dorn — Wed, 18 May 2005 20:40:42 +0000

I think that the best is Wordpress. Not hard to use. Good templeting system and lots of other good stuff that is to lengthy to go into now.

It is by far the best that I have used.

All valid CSS and XHTML! Good stuff!

andy206uk — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:21:22 +0000

Text Pattern is quite complex at first, but it's good when you get into it. Have a search in the text pattern forums, theres loads of guides and tips that should help you out.

timjpriebe — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:56:02 +0000

I use PHPNuke. Easy to make new modules. Only big downside is you have to keep code pretty current to avoid hacking. But I imagine that's true with any open-source CMS.

StudioWorks — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:53:24 +0000

Thanks andy for you reply.

Im amazed that only you replyed to this message. I was hoping to see more people interested in this issue.

I've done some searching on the web these past few days and I found a open-source cms called TextPattern. I've seen around 20 websites all using TextPattern

I've downlloaded it and played with it a little but it seams very difficult to use .

Anyone here is using it ?

Cheers,

StudioWorks

andy206uk — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:15:18 +0000

I'm hooked on Pmachine Pro. It's free and sexy as hell.
(see pmachine.com) I use it to power my blog greendezire.com

Pmachine has a big brother called Expression Engine which has a lot more options. (same site)