OK, this is for work - I'm at a loss for what are next steps. We have a CMS to deal with that runs our main site, it's not really a CMS though - it's in .NET and contains some key modules for our site users (searchable directory, event calendar, etc.) and is set up for secure logins etc. which was a big pain, so we can't really get rid of it.
But the stupid thing doesn't have a functioning content manager for actual text content, of which we have plenty and would like to add more - news articles and updates, for the most part.
The CMS vendor is rather.. short of resources to be able to do everything we ask them to do, and reprogramming some other modules has taken priority over making the content manager actually manage content.
Meanwhile I'm stuck updating text by hand, setting up a new page per article and coding the thing in HTML and dropping it in there as a blank control. It's horrible and if we had a real CMS our editors could just use a form and do this themselves.
Is there any way we could use blog software to handle this? We can display an RSS feed.. the trouble is.. if you click on a story in the feed it'll take you offsite, and then users won't be logged in..
I have no idea what to do, am sick of fighting this system, and realistically can't get a new job until December.. Help!
― daria-g, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)
C'mon, I know there are some tech savvy people here.
if nothing else where the heck should i repost this question..
― daria-g, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
I don't know a lot about this but have heard other people talk about using it (I think it might only be for non-profit though: drupal
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)
http://opensourcecms.com/
also OpenACS http://openacs.org/
and the ubiquitous Movable Type http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)
wordpress.org might do the trick as an open source bloggin platform/cms, Not too sure how it would work with the exisiting cms mind.
If you do go for wordpress do a quick search for some seo plugins to make it a bit more search engine friendly
― secondhandnews, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.ddj.com/dept/opensource/199201603
WHAT IS A DRUPAL
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)
actually I apologize that's a terribly written article. you can write a book on anything nowadays I suppose
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)
I know.. I guess I didn't explain myself very well.. I did plenty of research into other solutions and we can't just full on adopt a separate CMS - I want a solution to somehow work *with* the one we're stuck with now.
Basically.. I want to find if there's some software I can use as a CMS for our text content, and then.. feed it into the news page template(s) on the *actual* CMS we're using right now.
Make sense? Like.. can I set up Movable Type for our content editors, feed the content into our current CMS as an RSS feed so that, from a user perspective, it looks like it's in our site.. but then, if someone clicks an article it'll kick them out of the site, won't it? arrgh
― daria-g, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)
Movable Type sux
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)
if the cms supports frames you could display the external text content within the same window transparently. your main issue would be securing the externally hosted content from the general population.
― Edward III, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)
ps I hate frames
― Edward III, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)
Dream on.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 7 June 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)
Thanks, all, I guess. I have to work with software that sucks. I'm aware that it sucks. The software that sucks that I haven't yet tried, it would be helpful to know why it sucks, because that would maybe save me some time or actually be helpful in some way. I can't make the entire organization hold another year long RFP process and come up with the money to change it or roll our own. I'm just trying to keep my head above water here and not be a roadblock for our content writers getting their stuff to the site.
― daria-g, Friday, 8 June 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)