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The 6 problems I’m having with our move to WPMU (can you help?) When I announced that the Temple News was moving to WPMU, I promised to keep the world updated.

The 6 problems I’m having with our move to WPMU (can you help?)

So consider this a progress report of sorts. Overall, the site has given us the freedom and flexibility we thought it would. There is no limit to the kind of content we want to deliver. If I had to do it again, I would in a heartbeat. We are getting more daily content, more multimedia, and we are on the cusp of launching an advertising program. Courant News. Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems - Nettuts+ There are plenty of options when it comes to picking a content management system for a development project.

Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems - Nettuts+

Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it's built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the "perfect" CMS for a project. However, some CMSs have a slight edge over the rest of the competition because of the usability of the software. Some are just easier to install, use and extend, thanks to some thoughtful planning by the lead developers. Here are 10 of the most usable CMSs on the web to use in your next project. What is there left to say about WordPress that hasn't already been said? And super-quick installation wizard. For those users not familiar with HTML or other markup language, a WYSIWYG editor is provided straight out of the box. For developers, the theming language is fairly simple and straightforward, as well the Plugin API.

The WordPress Community is a faithful and zealous bunch. Drupal. OpenACS Home. XOOPS Project! Powered by You! Home - typo - GitHub. CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework. Simpleview, inc. Content Templates (Contemplate) - Drupal Module Reviews and Rati. Find I will post a link to this page on my blog.

Content Templates (Contemplate) - Drupal Module Reviews and Rati

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Javascript Tools. Javascript Tools provides a common set of methods extending those available in Drupal core (drupal.js) for Javascript and AJAX module development in Drupal.

Javascript Tools

Note: you should not install this module for Drupal 6 unless it is required by another module. Note: As of Oct. 20, 2009, the 5.x version is no longer supported. Prior to Drupal 6, Javascript Tools included an integrated set of Javascript and AJAX modules. For Drupal 6, modules previously part of Javascript Tools now have the following separate projects: Active menus, (requires Javascript Tools 6) Collapsiblock, (requires Javascript Tools 6) Tabs: Active edit, (prototype only as yet, not usable) Ajax submit, Install Javascript Tools 6 only if you use Active menus or Collapsiblock or another module that requires it.

Content Construction Kit (CCK) Views. You need Views if You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.

Views

You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically. You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type. You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like. You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some particular type. Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views. Drupal - Content Management System. ExpressionEngine - Publish Your Universe!

10 Free powerful Content Management Systems. Content Management Systems help web developers create, manage and publish quickly blogs, portal or social collaboration websites.

10 Free powerful Content Management Systems

Probably you know the most popular CMS tools such as WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla! Zen. Zen is a powerful, yet simple, HTML5 starting theme with a responsive, mobile-first grid design.

Zen

If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Garland or Stark. This theme has fantastic online documentation and tons of helpful code comments in its PHP, HTML, CSS and Sass. At many points in my Drupal career I’ve loved, leaned on & learned from the Zen theme. Version 5 takes that to a whole new level. - Jen Simmons The theme “Zen” turned out to be the public favorite and won the “Best Drupal Theme” title. - Award announcement for the Drupal Hall of Fame Award by Packt Publishing Zen now comes in two flavors!

Documentation The Zen theme is wonderfully documented. Drupal.org/documentation/theme/zen 7.x-5.x features at a glance: Note: There seems to be a conflict between some host installations of the SiteZen site builder and the Zen directory name which causes broken tabs, css files to be "not found", and other issues. Newspapers on Drupal. Beta portal - download. A place to learn Drupal.

DotNetNuke / DNN - Home. MODx Content Management System. Home. CMS. A lot of colleges are using College Publisher as a content management system, but is it the best choice?

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Well, College Publisher is free, so it can’t be that bad of a choice (that automatically makes it a pretty good choice actually). I’ve heard a lot of complaints about College Publisher as a CMS, but honestly Ellington is the only CMS I have heard journalists praise. Let’s take a look at a few papers who have either switched to College Publisher or are switching from it: Lehigh University – My college newspaper switched to College Publisher this past fall from a proprietary CMS (disclosure: I was editor in chief of the paper three years ago).

It has been a rocky transition. The new Web site for The Brown and White could use a lot of work. Apparently, however, that is not the case.