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The question:
What’s a good user-friendly Macintosh web development program? A friend called. She’s thinking of buying Dreamweaver, but is afraid it will be overkill. She found Frontpage to be easy and needs something similar.
My answer:
If the intent is to design individual pages on an unknown number of sites, then I don’t have a recommendation.
If the [...]
New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
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Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:
Boston College
Northeastern
Bristol Community College
UMass Lowell
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We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT’s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well.
Here’s what we learned in the demo:
It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the [...]
With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four:
Joomla, a derivative of Mambo
Collage appears to have good content reuse features
OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients
Drupal: open source and turning heads
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We’re looking at the Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). The real demo comes later, but the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. Hmm.
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CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty.
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Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. Even knowledgeable people often find themselves struggling for an answer before giving up and defining a CMS by example.
The problem is that we know we want better websites, and we know technology should help, but [...]
WordPress’s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. This might be a good thing, but I’m foolhardy enough to try working around it.
Here’s how:
Find a text editor you like and open up the wp-includes/functions-post.php file.
in the wp_get_recent_posts() function, change [...]
A friend and I have been talking about what it would take to turn WordPress into a CMS. We both have our doubts, but today I found this job ad that suggests we’re not alone in at least thinking of the possibility.
Needed: Web Designer/Programmer For Our Sites
We’re growing very fast, and have outgrown our current [...]
I’ve been slowly struggling with the question of how to replace pMachine, my CMS engine here. I haven’t really liked any of the alternatives that others I know are using (link link link link), though I’ve been hard pressed to identify exactly what my complaints are. Among the points in Making A Better Open Source [...]
