And just as a final (from someone who regularly builds
sites for NGOs) I'm going to give the same opinion I always
do.
Visit http://cmsmadsimple.org . This ripper of a
CMS, though still in its infancy, has finally gone to
v1.0.1.
It assumes you, or someone else with XHTML/CSS knowledge,
will build or modify the default templates but otherwise requires little
technical expertise. It's accessibly by default (templates and WYSIWYG) and can
be made even more so by the site developer. It's also covered by the GPL (read:
free).
It has a good News engine with an RSS option and everything
else you're looking for. The one thing it's light on is a blog module. One
exists but I've not tried it because I've never had the
need.
If a blog or forum is what you want then I would point
you towards something more specific, like SimpleMachines or
Wordpress.
Ask yourself who your audience is and what sort of traffic
you expect to get before making any decision. Also, if you've got no in-house
technical expertise, you'll also want to strongly consider the platform
requirements.
--
Paul A Noone
Webmaster, ASHM
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Getting off topic for Elle (who I hope has had enough ideas now to help with the decision), I'm going to add some comments about Wordpress.
Quoting Chris Williams :
> Don't want to come off as the WP zealot here, but some of the busiest blogs
> in the world are run on WP... It has the horsepower...
Quoting Lawrence:
But does it have the horsepower for 20,000+ articles ? (With dynamic caching)
If so.. where do I get the bits and pieces to customise it to do exactly that ?
The import scripts I'm using do correctly place the data. It's just the output
and polling of the DB takes an awful long time.
Worpdress is highly configurable and can handle large, busy blogs. BUT none of the freely available caching plugins is worth bothering with. If you want decent caching, you have to write your own. I like Wordpress for some uses, and use it as a CMS BUT would never want to manage thousands of articles with it simply because of the lack of structure in the backend. In that regard, it really shows itself to be a blog, not a system designed for managing content.
Like everything, its a matter of choosing the tool best suited for the job in hand.
Regards,
Lynne
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