I am IT literate but have never used them before. Is it easy to write information and load them up onto the website or is there specfic information that I should know before using one?
All CMS are written to be as versatile as possible. As such, they do contain HUGE amounts of functions you will never use, and require HUGE amounts of space to be loaded (Joomla is 27Mb of code!!!).
Although very versatile, they NEVER solve ALL your specific needs, and you always end-up adding functions yourself.
Their use require you to understand exactly what you are doing, or face the problems of “finding why” the CMS does not perform as expected, by going through megabytes of scripts only prefessionals with experience can understand.
Conclusion?
I have removed many CMS, from Joomla, Drupal, Miva and others, and replaced them with my own, taylor-made code.
Result?
A clear and understandable code, 100 to 200kb only, specifically adapted to client’s needs.
If you can use Joomla, you CAN write code.
And if you can write code, why would you use any off-the shelf CMS but your own????
Writing your own may take you a few days, but understanding another CMS and finding a bug in them WILL take you weeks.
Your choice!
yes of course, that’s true, expect some bugs that exist, that’s why the CMS codes u use will be more hackable and non-secured, because once anybody knows how that open source script is written code-by-code it’s easy to track some bugs and use somekind of SQL injections that steal your data in an easy way.
Actually, I didn’t use these CMSs scripts and i will never do that, but i am sure that you can make stronger scripts and more suitable to use, i know that it takes time but it will be more secured and reliable for personal or corporate use.
good luck.
Hello,
Most of the time, these open source products are very powerful and you should be able to use them without programming. But often people or companies want some specific features that are not out of the box.
In that latter case, you should evaluate more thoroughly each product (a shortlist) in terms of technologies and features.
One of the most popular PHP Web CMS are :
– Drupal
– Joomla
– eZPublish
– PHPNuke
If you want to see the whole list and compare some of the features visit the CMS matrix web site which will show you many CMS in many technologies.
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just "JR"
February 26th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
1All CMS are written to be as versatile as possible. As such, they do contain HUGE amounts of functions you will never use, and require HUGE amounts of space to be loaded (Joomla is 27Mb of code!!!).
Although very versatile, they NEVER solve ALL your specific needs, and you always end-up adding functions yourself.
Their use require you to understand exactly what you are doing, or face the problems of “finding why” the CMS does not perform as expected, by going through megabytes of scripts only prefessionals with experience can understand.
Conclusion?
I have removed many CMS, from Joomla, Drupal, Miva and others, and replaced them with my own, taylor-made code.
Result?
A clear and understandable code, 100 to 200kb only, specifically adapted to client’s needs.
If you can use Joomla, you CAN write code.
And if you can write code, why would you use any off-the shelf CMS but your own????
Writing your own may take you a few days, but understanding another CMS and finding a bug in them WILL take you weeks.
Your choice!
Wordpress Autoblogging Software
February 26th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
2yes of course, that’s true, expect some bugs that exist, that’s why the CMS codes u use will be more hackable and non-secured, because once anybody knows how that open source script is written code-by-code it’s easy to track some bugs and use somekind of SQL injections that steal your data in an easy way.
Actually, I didn’t use these CMSs scripts and i will never do that, but i am sure that you can make stronger scripts and more suitable to use, i know that it takes time but it will be more secured and reliable for personal or corporate use.
good luck.
prx_187
February 27th, 2010 at 4:08 am
3Hello,
Most of the time, these open source products are very powerful and you should be able to use them without programming. But often people or companies want some specific features that are not out of the box.
In that latter case, you should evaluate more thoroughly each product (a shortlist) in terms of technologies and features.
One of the most popular PHP Web CMS are :
– Drupal
– Joomla
– eZPublish
– PHPNuke
If you want to see the whole list and compare some of the features visit the CMS matrix web site which will show you many CMS in many technologies.
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