OT: CMS recommendations?

a bit off topic but I'm looking for windows based CMS recommendations.

obviously http://www.cmswatch.com/ is always a good start, but is
anyone using something their customers really like? or as SEO's do
you not get involved at that level? I find after I do a design and
need to hand off, I dont want them mucking around with dreamweaver too
much.

any suggestions? mid-priced and useful-- is that an oxymoron in this
software field yet?

thanks
dale

"Dale Helstrom Hotmale.com>" <DHelstrom@FixThisFirst--> wrote

a bit off topic but I'm looking for windows based CMS recommendations.

obviously http://www.cmswatch.com/ is always a good start, but is
anyone using something their customers really like? or as SEO's do
you not get involved at that level? I find after I do a design and
need to hand off, I dont want them mucking around with dreamweaver too
much.

any suggestions? mid-priced and useful-- is that an oxymoron in this
software field yet?

Typo3, but it is resource intensive. Might not be able to put it on a shared
server. (Requires 25 available meg memory. Many/most hosts will limit
script memory usage to 8 meg or less.) http://typo3.com/

phpWebSite, but it is not SE friendly. Have to do some hacking and mod
rewrite. http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

Contentor - Lightweight, customizable and SE friendly, but somewhat limited.
Have to run multiple scripts in different folders if you are doing a large
site. http://contentor.net/

All the above are Open Source.

John Merrell
Gateway Farm Alpacas
http://www.gateway-alpacas.com

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:30:36 -0800, "Gateway Farm"
<johnwmerrell (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:

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a bit off topic but I'm looking for windows based CMS recommendations.

obviously http://www.cmswatch.com/ is always a good start, but is
anyone using something their customers really like? or as SEO's do
you not get involved at that level? I find after I do a design and
need to hand off, I dont want them mucking around with dreamweaver too
much.

any suggestions? mid-priced and useful-- is that an oxymoron in this
software field yet?


Typo3, but it is resource intensive. Might not be able to put it on a shared
server. (Requires 25 available meg memory. Many/most hosts will limit
script memory usage to 8 meg or less.) http://typo3.com/

phpWebSite, but it is not SE friendly. Have to do some hacking and mod
rewrite. http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

Contentor - Lightweight, customizable and SE friendly, but somewhat limited.
Have to run multiple scripts in different folders if you are doing a large
site. http://contentor.net/

All the above are Open Source.

John Merrell

Thanks for the suggestions, John. gotta love the "brave gnu world" of
open source, huh? typo3 looks very interesting, im going to give
it a test run in a couple of weeks when i have a few spare minutes.

thanks for the heads up on script size, certainly something i would
*not* have thought to check upfront. good call, that.

dale

"Dale Helstrom Hotmale.com>" <DHelstrom@FixThisFirst--> wrote

a bit off topic but I'm looking for windows based CMS recommendations.

obviously http://www.cmswatch.com/ is always a good start, but is
anyone using something their customers really like? or as SEO's do
you not get involved at that level? I find after I do a design and
need to hand off, I dont want them mucking around with dreamweaver too
much.

any suggestions? mid-priced and useful-- is that an oxymoron in this
software field yet?

Ours is pretty seo friendly and easy to use. We run our own site on it
http://telford.RuntimeUK.com and have about 25 or so out in the wild!

Contact us for pricing options.

--
Andy

"The Smiths" <andy (AT) runtimeuk (DOT) com> wrote

Ours is pretty seo friendly and easy to use. We run our own site on it
http://telford.RuntimeUK.com and have about 25 or so out in the wild!

Contact us for pricing options.

Aaaack!! asp pages?

I'll stick with open source and php, thank you...

JM

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Ours is pretty seo friendly and easy to use. We run our own site on it
http://telford.RuntimeUK.com and have about 25 or so out in the wild!

Contact us for pricing options.


Aaaack!! asp pages?

I'll stick with open source and php, thank you...

JM
And of course you are quite welcome to it.

--
Andy