I'll chime in here since I've been evaluating several CMSs lately. I previously used Drupal and WordPress as my CMSs - now however I'm moving everything to MODx because of the increased flexibility and more-logical organization, and I'm also impressed with the demos of SilverStripe, TypoLight Typo3 - and LifeRay, which is written in Java instead of PHP. (LifeRay seems to be much more than a CMS - it claims to offer collaboration and social networking.)
Some on-line demos here: MODx - http://trymodx.com/ SilverStripe - http://demo.silverstripe.com/ TypoLight - http://www.typolight.org/demo.html Typo3 - http://testsite.punkt.de/ LifeRay - http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home It would be good to take a look at these additional CMSs as they offer some capabilities beyond WordPress and Drupal. Drupal in particular is wildly popular but it may no longer be the best candidate to imitate, as it is less well-organized and less flexible/customizable (compared say to MODx, which lets you take CSS from an existing site and use it for your site, and which lets you apply a template to a single document, unlike Drupal where a theme applies to the entire site). To keep up with advanced CMSs, Drupal has evolved to use a bunch of (often redundant or competing) modules which are not always compatible with current releases. Examples of things that Drupal treats as "add-ons" (modules) are: custom content (the "CCK/Views" modules, with their confusing albeit AJAX-y interface), multi-language, and photo galleries (I gave up on Drupal after a few days of trying out various photo gallery modules, none of which I could understand). Finally, it seems odd that Drupal, as a "content management system", lacks something all advanced CMSs have: a *treeview* of the overall site content. Instead, it only has a jumbled *list* of content, sorted by not by location but by last edited (!), with all translations also scattered through the list based on last- edited date, and this list is buried several levels deep in the admin navigation system, unlike the site content treeview navigator which is prominently displayed (usually on the left) in advanced CMSs. (Of course, I don't want to veer off-topic here and start a CMS flame war here in this liftweb discussion. :-) Regarding "dynamic site map" creation - I do know that MODx has something like this, using WayFinder to create a menu from selected branches of the site's document tree, automatically including any updated sub-branches, and I believe most other advanced CMSs have something like this too. LifeRay seems very intriguing - it claims to do a lot beyond just CMS. Since it's written in Java (not PHP), who knows if some of its code could be leveraged in Scala. So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. - Stefan Scott On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > Philip, > > I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now, it allows for content > creation using wymeditor, which can be > tagged and displayed as an atom feed. This code is runnable, simple as > it is. I'm working on adding dynamic site map creation as well. Is > this kind > of what you have in mind by a CMS system. > > I'm very interested in workiing with others on a CMS that can compete > with any of the PHP varieties out there, such as Drupal and Wordpress. > Most of these simply use plugins from one ore more javascript > libraries out there for site creation, and Lift certainly can do > javascript as well as, if not > better than, these systems. > > Glenn... > > On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, philip <philip14...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. > > > Thanks, Philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
