iFerret
2008-01-05, 05:35
I'm a web designer, as you might know, and I offer the ability for my clients to have a CMS installed on their site so that they can manage the content, as opposed to me having to do it. Thankfully no one has asked for it, because it just occured to me that I don't actually have a CMS to offer. Whoops.
On my own personal site I use Textpattern, mainly because WordPress kept getting buggered because of my crap server and because it was free, works okay and seemed pretty. I don't actually use Textpattern to it's full potential, as I only use it to manage the blog part of my site. Everything else is just static HTML that I've handcoded, as opposed to using Textpattern's pages feature (which I assume does that sort of thing).
So, I'm looking for a CMS that fulfils the following requirements:
is free
is easy for my clients to use (they're technophobes, so it needs to be pretty simple)
has support for a pages feature - basically I design the site and then the CMS manages the content on each page
is easy enough to install and maintain
works with me creating the design, easily, with skills I already have (xHTML, CSS, a little bit of PHP, the tiniest bit of Java)
isn't Wordpress (because it doesn't like to work on my server (unless it has to be, in which case, I'll make it work))
isn't Textpattern, because I think it's probably too complicated for most of my clients
PHP - must be PHP/MySQL or PHP/TxtSQL
What can you recommend?
TIA
On my own personal site I use Textpattern, mainly because WordPress kept getting buggered because of my crap server and because it was free, works okay and seemed pretty. I don't actually use Textpattern to it's full potential, as I only use it to manage the blog part of my site. Everything else is just static HTML that I've handcoded, as opposed to using Textpattern's pages feature (which I assume does that sort of thing).
So, I'm looking for a CMS that fulfils the following requirements:
is free
is easy for my clients to use (they're technophobes, so it needs to be pretty simple)
has support for a pages feature - basically I design the site and then the CMS manages the content on each page
is easy enough to install and maintain
works with me creating the design, easily, with skills I already have (xHTML, CSS, a little bit of PHP, the tiniest bit of Java)
isn't Wordpress (because it doesn't like to work on my server (unless it has to be, in which case, I'll make it work))
isn't Textpattern, because I think it's probably too complicated for most of my clients
PHP - must be PHP/MySQL or PHP/TxtSQL
What can you recommend?
TIA