content management system
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Which serverside language to learn for a non-programmer in 2013? [closed]
Introduction
Hello, I can barely consider myself a programmer, and my previous experience is just implementing simple blog engine in Ruby on Rails.
I don't plan, to work as a programmer for some ...
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Advice needed - CMS vs. framework [duplicate]
I am going to make a website for a client that wants to be able to alter the site about every week (changing pictures and textual information mostly). It is for a restaurant and so the client wants to ...
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Multisite CMS to share content - Exists? [closed]
Been researching this for a while and haven't found a solution... or an obvious one anyway. I am looking for a CMS that can be deployed with a single backend, but still manage multiple domains. Also, ...
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Should I use a CMS for a new large application with a lot of common features (login, profile edit, blog etc)?
I'm currently planning a new ASP.NET MVC3 project which will be quite bespoke. However, there will be a lot of common features (login, profile edit, blog etc).
Initially I was planning on building ...
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Website Development Process - HTML to CMS [closed]
I need some advice from experts. I recently hired someone to develop our website. She submitted and we approved a proposal for $9100 to first code the website in HMTL and host on Dreamhost and then ...
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1answer
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Who manages a CMS after a freelance project is complete?
I've been a full stack .net developer for several years now using C#/MVC4/SQL Server and have never taken on a freelance project. This is because up until now I have worked only as a full-time ...
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How deep should we dive into testing different layers
We use Drupal 7 as our base CMS tool.
For one specific product, something like an ERP, we've created sort of a non-drupal layer, to keep our specific business code in.
It would be something like ...
3
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2answers
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Is Wordpress more appropriate than Magento/Opencart for site like this? [closed]
The premise of the site is that a user pays a small fee to advertise an item that they want to sell. Therefore the user is responsible for adding the "products", not the administrator. The product ...
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Massive Affiliate Shopping Platform. Is WordPress really suitable? [closed]
I am working on an online shopping platform that acquires it's data from various affiliate programs through XML files. I am talking hundreds and thousands of items per program here that change often ...
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The different types of CMS - Pros and cons [closed]
As I understand it, there are three different "types" of CMS:
Proprietary: A CMS built and owned by a company, and altered to meet a client's needs.
Open-Source: An open/free version of the above. ...
4
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5answers
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Should we use an outside CMS?
I work at a web design/development shop. Everything we do is centered around the Joomla! CMS. I'm a bit worried-if anything goes wrong with Joomla (major security flaw revealed, Joomla folds and ...
1
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1answer
195 views
Using mod_rewrite for a Virtual Filesystem vs. Real Filesystem
I started working in a department that uses a CMS in which the entire "filesystem" is like this:
create a named file or folder - this file is given a unique node (ex. 2345) as well as a default ...
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Who is a CMS really for?
I have started lately discovering Content Management Systems, and I was wondering, who is really CMS for?
What I mean by that: is it only for companies, small businesses or individuals, that pays a ...
3
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1answer
178 views
Suggestions for a CMS markup language for PHP
As a learning experience, and as project, I am attempting to write a CMS module for ZF2. One of the functionality I would like to have is the possibility of adding dynamic contents in the pages by ...
4
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2answers
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Difference between a CMS and a Web Development Framework
The web world is flooded with CMSes. Some tout their CMS as Web Development Framework. Some say it as Content Management Solution and nowadays i m hearing Content Management Framerowk.
When we hear ...
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Drawbacks to entirely Ajax driven CMS
I'll try to keep this question as specific as possible..
I'm about to start building an API for an upcoming project. I'm currently thinking PHP/Symfony2. It will be a farily simple HTTP-based api for ...
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6answers
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Why choose an established CMS as opposed to building one from scratch?
A lot of my research over the next few weeks will be into different CMS's. I've already had a brief look at episerver and umbraco. While reading into these systems I can't help but think that ...
1
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Effective template system [closed]
I'm building a content management system, and need advice on which theming structure should I adopt. A few options (This is not a complete list):
Wordpress style:
the controller decides what ...
7
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4answers
575 views
Why don't public web applications use ini files for configuration
Almost every public CMS out there uses a .php configuration file for the database settings and so on. For example WordPress automatically creates a .php config file when you install it.
Why don't ...
0
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3answers
144 views
web content management system
Quite a few of my friends want to have their own personal website to showcase their talents. However, they don't want to deal with such technical things as writing html and managing web server. ...
0
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1answer
665 views
Storing documents in Database vs CMS in JSF, Seam, Hibernate application on cloud
I am about to start with an application using JSF 2, Seam 3, Hibernate and Hibernate search with the following characteristics:
Users will be uploading documents (pdf, doc).
There can be millions of ...
1
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1answer
199 views
Will it hurt my reputation if I don't deliver what I'm expected to? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I cannot reach my deadline. What to do?
I've been a Java developer for several years, mostly working with web applications/sites. I was offered a freelance job to do on ...
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1answer
624 views
Framework for developing front-end with back-end as REST
Currently I'm developing the back-end of a PHP application using Recess Framework. I'm almost done and I now need to do the front-end. I have many alternatives and I prefer a CMS. The alternatives in ...
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3answers
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Looking for a quality, easy to customize .NET based CMS [closed]
Our company usually works in PHP or Ruby, but a potential client wants us to build their new website in .NET as their staff works with that stack. We have only one guy in the team with .NET ...
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2answers
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Could I learn more about programming from deconstructing drupal rather than continuing with ZF?
When I was deciding how to go about learning to design PHP web applications, it made sense to sort of shoot toward the middle and go with Zend Framework so that I could be closer to the lower level, ...
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1answer
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If multitenancy is a priority, should I store site content in the database?
I have a multi tenant ASP.NET MVC website and all client specific text is stored in resource files. Every time someone wants to change text I have to jump through hoops and fill out forms and let ...
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5answers
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Using a CMS that I'm not familiar with just for the sake of the job?
I've been designing and developing with Wordpress for about two years (and I love it). Recently, a respectable designer told me that I could work for him. He works with Joomla! My job was to create a ...
6
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8answers
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Website development from scratch v/s web framework
Do people develop websites from scratch when there are no particular requirements or they just pick up an existing web framework like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc.
The requirements are almost ...
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2answers
8k views
What's the difference between CRM, CMS and ERP [closed]
I know that CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, CMS stands for Content Management System and ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planner. I would like to know what each of things does best ...
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1answer
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Custom web development for third-party CMS and turnkey systems [closed]
The web shop I work at does a majority of their work with turnkey website systems, ie. Wordpress, Drupal, Business Catalyst, e-Commerce platforms etc. to deliver websites to clients.
I'm interested ...
2
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3answers
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Easy to customize .NET CMS with ecommerce facility
I have tried DNN and nopCommerce. After going through their source-code, I realized they are not that easy to customize and need a fair amount of time to their documentation before any changes can be ...
2
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5answers
564 views
How to automate a tasks system in a CMS software
I'm currently developing v2.0 of my personal cms. However, I'm stuck. I strongly feel that my old solution for "tasks" is not very dynamic and must be revisited. Currently I'm looking the whole ...
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1answer
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Should CMS be coupled with presentation?
There seems to be a growing trend for CMS systems to manage not only data capture and workflow, but to be an end-to-end product that manages presentation and end user content (like comments/forums). I ...
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Is it a good idea to use Header(“Content-Type […]”); in the core file of a CMS?
I have been working on content management systems for about 7 years. 2 years ago created my own. Currently building a newew, better and bigger version.
However, fell into dilemma. I have a core file, ...
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1answer
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How to create a centralized update mechanism for a hosted CMS?
We're a team developing a hosted CMS (something like WordPress.com, but in .NET platform), and we want every site to get updates as we update our software.
Our CMS is not multi-tenant, i.e. each site ...
1
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4answers
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Is there any HTML editor (WYSIWYG editor) which can do all these tasks? [closed]
I want an HTML editor on the .NET platform which:
Support RTL languages (like Arabic and Persian)
Be a rich text editor (many formatting tools, not few)
Have client-side events
Have server-side ...
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Should I build my own CMS or rely on a pre-built one? [closed]
Related: As a beginning programmer, should I favor building my own libraries over using 3rd-party libraries?
As an intermediate to advanced level PHP web-developer and a young one at that ...
2
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3answers
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Is there a canonical book for CMS design patterns and concepts?
I've been trying to understand the fundamentals of content management systems: I've looked into APress's Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS, but it dives into implementation, dedicating a lot of time to technologies ...
2
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1answer
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CMS and Databases vs. DIY
I have been programming for many years now, primarily in PHP and the like and would consider myself an intermediate programmer. Some of my online projects have now gone global and very widely used, i ...
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Can non-IT people handle a wiki?
My company is looking to improve their market research data management.
Current data management style:
"Hey Jimbo, where's that picture of our WhatZit 2.0?
"yeah I remember that email about that ...
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2answers
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Right tool for small size Content Management System Project
I'm starting a new project in my head. It will be an events calendar. It will get info from openData sources the local goverment provides and will allow registered users to add aditional events to the ...
2
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1answer
113 views
Anyone know about webs.com?
I have a friend who created a website with web.com which use to be called freewebs.com. He also has his domain name registered through them as well. Are theses one of those dangerous sites to stay ...
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CSS in a CMS - Pros/Cons
I am a regular user of Wordpress and whenever I feel the need to change the look of a DOM element, I prefer to use it inline. This is just because I don't want go back to the stylesheet and create new ...
3
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1answer
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Suggestion needed to create a website that makes podcasts
I going to create a project that has the following features:
Create Audio and Video Podcast
Create & Browse Podcast Hoster's Profile
Manage Hoster's Profile ( add podcast , remove podcast , ...
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When (and when not) to use Wordpress?
For the sake of simplicity, my question is focused specifically on Wordpress instead of focusing on all Content Management Systems including Joomla, Drupal, Concrete5, or you-name-it.
Wordpress is ...
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Is it a good idea to implement OpenID services in internal and/or customer applications?
I've been discussing with my colleges about logging in by using your OpenID account, Google account etc. in our customers CMS and/or the internal systems we use, as we've had a few requests regarding ...
2
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ROI in choosing a CMS solution
At the company I work for we need a CMS.
We have to choices, first one, work with an existing CMS ( Drupal, Joomla, whatever ) or develop our own.
I know for sure that developing our own is the ...
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How to promote an open-source project?
First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong section of network to post this question. If it is, please feel free to move it to more appropriate location...
Question: I would like to hear your ...
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Transitioning from Oracle based CMS to MySQL based CMS
We're looking at a replacement for our CMS which runs on Oracle. The new CMSes that we've looked at can in theory run on Oracle, but
most of the vendor's installs run off of MySQL
vendor supports ...
2
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5answers
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Work @ Java shop. Tasked to redo intranet. I only know PHP - CTO says use that; Ops Says no - we have JSP, use that - Thoughts? [closed]
So I work as a project manager and was given the opportunity to redo the intranet and Internet site... I'd love to , great addition to my resume. However.... I am not familiar with java nor JSP... I ...
