Choosing a CMS

[vva...@rivermarkcu.org]

Hi,

We're looking for a CMS that meets these criteria:

- Security
- Ease of use by lay editors
- Development speed

We have ruled out SiteCore, and are currently considering SiteFinity and Umbraco.

Would you suggest any others? Have you had any issues with the two that we are still considering?

Your help is much appreciated!

Vickie

[Luuk]

On 03-06-2013 23:41, Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <ca5bca8f-b14b-4882...@googlegroups.com>,

> All those are commercial CMS'. Have you considered Open source? What
> have you considered?
>
> "Security" is a nebulous term. If you're talking about "role-based"
> access, then that's only as secure as the main site.
>
> "Ease of use" is also a fuzzy term. I did a site using Drupal that was
> fine for simple articles with embedded photos, like a blog, for non-HTML
> literate people to do. They just dumped their content into an editor,
> added the graphics, tweeked the formattting, and saved it. Review, then
> publish. But doing complex layouts required someone who know HTML and a
> couple hours of tweaking a table layout to get it to display right. You
> won't find that skill on most resumes.
>
> "Development Speed" is also ill-defined. Some CMS have a huge community
> with extensions to the base system and a plug-in architecture to allow
> an advanced developer to "roll their own" features. Wordpress and
> Drupal come to mind. Joomla has a more commercial aspect. You'll pay
> for everything.
>
> SiteFinity is a ASP-based CMS which means you'll have to either pay the
> Microsoft tax and buy their .NET development environment, paying PER
> SEAT EVERY YEAR for the privilege to use their tools and extend your
> site. Same with Umbraco.
>
> If that's your chosen model and you got the bucks AND the people that
> can develop using those tools, great.
>
> But LAMP-based CMS which use Opensource software
> (LAMP=Linux/Apache/MySQL/Php) has developers and a large community of
> users and developers. The project I did in Drupal was for a non-profit.
> They ran the site for a number of years before moving their
> site-management to an ASP vendor that did everything. That vendor is
> now holding the site hostage. It was their biggest mistake and almost
> killed them.
>
> Rethink your requirements to be more specific and less buzz-word based.
> Look at more than just the Microsoft-centric solution. Or if that's all
> you can find to do development is ASP people, then you need to look more
> deeply. Don't have someone else do it all for you unless you have good
> lawyers and custody of their 1st born.
>

+1

But, if you dont know how to find an open source CMS, you can try this site:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

If you want to compare any/some of these:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/