New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
Serena Collage Customer Sites
Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:
The Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite Demo
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 […] » about 800 words
Kim’s CMS Shortlist
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
Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite
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.
1,800 CMS Vendors!
CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty.
CMS Pitfalls
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, […] » about 500 words
Editing WordPress “Pages” Via XML-RPC
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 […] » about 300 words
WordPress As CMS
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 […] » about 300 words