Content management systems recommendations?

[Sonars_UK]

Hi,

I'm building quite a few websites now (Using FP2003) and occassionaly a
client will ask for a content management system. Currently I just farm the
work out to a local developer who will produce the CMS and integrate it into
the website for me. This is VERY convenienet but it is starting to become
rather expensive.

I understand that there are off the shelf WHSIWYG packages available that
make the creation of a CMS reletively easy and I would appreciate a
recommendation from anyone who has used a package with FrontPage.

My current enquiry is from a client who sells new and used farming equipment
and they would like to have control over the products that appear on their
catalogue pages. i.e. being able to add, amend and delete entries. Each
entry will have a thumbnail (which links to a larger image), a description
and a price.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.


Regards,

Sonars UK

 

[Paul C]

Hi
There are basically two types of cms, one that uses a database to store the
content and one which uses tags on the page to edit the actual text and
content. I prefere the latter, less hassle with Db setup and security. here
are a few. I have come across a few free ones but these sre usually in
development stage and are full of bugs. One word of advice make your pages
so that aclient can add as much text as they need and the page does not
pull appart I usually have a fixed width table so the content stretches
downwards .

All platforms
http://contentseed.com/default.asp

PHP
http://www.flyspeck.net/

Good luck
Paul M