CMS

[Stueh]

Well, next year I have to do a project on what ever I like really. I quiet like the idea of a new content management system. So id like your thoughts/experiences on any CMS's you've used? Also what kind of features would you like to see in one?

Few of the ideas ive had:

- Dynamic Pages (create your own kinda thing)
- Gallery (pics etc)
- Forums

[JazzyJay]

What is the intended use/market if any?
What is the platform it should run on? (independent?)

[bambam]

back to planet earth... is the CMS project supposed to do something new or are you supposed to implement something that could just as well be done with wordpress ?

[Stueh]

back to planet earth... is the CMS project supposed to do something new or are you supposed to implement something that could just as well be done with wordpress ?

I was planning an easy to use interface for general use. So like I could develop add ons (such as one for gaming, or blog sites) so users could have what they want. Just getting my head around what could come "as standard"... if that all makes sense

[IXL]

Hmm..

Well, just a few things spring to my mind.

1, What can you offer, thats not already out there being done.
2, POD. Point of difference. If you cant beat the above, what can you do thats being done, but make it better/easier.

I got lots of ideas, but wanna keep some to myself, but just keep an open mind of what your doing so it can appeal to a much wider audience/user...

[JazzyJay]

What is the target platform dude?

[Stueh]

What is the target platform dude?

To start off it will be an asp based system as I don't know php at all, and I have to do a project for my course next year (which is vb/c#/c++ based).

If other people are interested in doing one then id be happy to help out and find a different project to do for my course The main aim would be to make it asynchronous so the user has to wait as little time as possible. I hate going to a CMS based site and waiting for the page to load (my clans for example -- link not posted obv).

Bullet, I can understand what your saying mate dw.

[Stueh]

ajax

indeeedy

[JazzyJay]

ajax

indeeedy

Ermmm, Ajax doesn't necessarily mean faster/more responsive website (however in many cases it is faster). There are many ways how server side processing can be speeded up (M$ platform is harder to optimise/scale than a LAMP one), and also front end page generation by the browser. Asynchronous interaction with a website can be a complex task that requires advanced knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, XML/JSON.

Now that I know that your platform is ASP (perhaps .net), in opinion, it's rather tricky to be in CMS business within this platform. As you know, most of M$ software is paid for therefore your product would hardly reach open source community and you'd be competing with corporations and their CMS solutions.
PHP is a C/Perl-like language that may be ugly at times but does its job very well and there are number of frameworks available that speed up the process and enforce certain design patterns.

Have you reviewed any existing CMS software and made your analysis on how it can be improved and what are the features that are requested by users?

If you haven't built a web application before, a CMS as your first project may be just a bit too much to start with.

JJ

[Legato]

u nerds!

[JazzyJay]

u nerds!

It is my job. Pays the bills and pays them well

JJ

[JazzyJay]

Jolteh.

Flatfile, or db ?

CMS with a flatfile? Hellooooo, welcome to the 21st century! )