CMS for retards? (A blogger-like content management system?)

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Is there one? Every jackass that walks through that damn door wants a site they can update but they "don't have a lot of money".

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

TextPattern
Rodin
WordPress

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks. I was looking at the last two.

Have you ever used Drupal?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't...Drupal is more of a portal software; big site with multiple authors and users. I would recommend TextPattern very highly: easy to use, fairly easy to install, great community support and open-source. Plus, it's been deployed in both personal and commercial websites.

check out the TextPattern forums.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

TextPattern does look like the best thing I've seen.

Mambo has the highest ratings, but I am on the retard level when I tried to use their demo.

Thanks again!

And WordPress appears to be just a blog tool, right?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Mambo's designed more for heavy-duty commercial websites. TXP's easier and more light-weight.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah... I have no idea how to install TextPattern. Webroot? Fuck me.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my favorite message:

Warning: main(./config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/b/b/s/bbsite/html/textpattern/index.php on line 16

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/b/b/s/bbsite/html/textpattern/index.php on line 16

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This is driving me motherfucking mad!

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

LIVEJOURNAL

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Textpattern would barely fit the bill (and probably not even), so Livejournal might as well be MySpace if I try to offer it to some cheapskate client.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a CMS-for-retards system myself at the moment. A manager from another department at work: "We want a better-looking website! That we can update ourselves! Every day! But we want it right away, and we want it done internally so we can get it for free!"

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bricolage?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, that looks interesting - thanks, Ed.

It would still be a *lot* more work than they think it would be, of course. That department is full of people who think that *anything* IT-related is quick and easy, so they should be able to have what they want NOW and the fact that they don't get it is clear evidence that IT is Conspiring Against Them.

(of course, *all* departments think that to some extent, but this one is worse than others).

(example: when told "yes, we have ordered a new computer for you. it will take one or two weeks to arrive" they usually reply with: "but I want it NOW! Why can't you just go down to PC World right now and buy me one?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The register used to use bricolage, i can't remember why they switched. Pretty much any CMS, nomatter how easy it makes it for the end user, seems to be a bugger for whoever has to install or maintain it.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

anyone use CMSMS?

My experience with all of these has been that it is a pain in the ass it shoehorn in an already-existing design and their template systems are all a pain in the ass. I deal with corporate websites (small to medium sized).

― akm, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

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