https://www.locomotivecms.com/ is great, _AND_ it's Ruby on Rails :) Win-win. Good luck!
--Murk On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Paul Suh <pl...@goodeast.com> wrote: > Folks, > > Completely off topic, but I'd value input from this community in > particular. I need to recommend a (replacement) CMS for the public-facing > web site for my day job. My wants: > > 1) NOT Wordpress -- I don't need the security headaches. > 2) Allows updates by users who don't know HTML and for whom Markdown is a > stretch. (Marketing people.) > 3) Has commercial support and hosting available -- if it was just me I > could run almost anything on my own. For my day job, however, I need to > make sure that the rest of the IT department can still handle things if I > get hit by a bus. > 4) Minimal customization -- certainly no custom code or scripting. Again, > if it was just me..., but it needs to be maintainable down the road. > > The site has very little necessary in the way of server-side processing; > in fact, a CMS is borderline overkill. A good templating system would > almost do the trick. A really good templating system that can automatically > post selected news item links to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. would > be great. The only problem is that the marketing types can't be trusted > even with Markdown. :-P > > The site needs to be really flashy and eye-catching for marketing > purposes, so whatever solution needs to support (or at least not get in the > way of) the latest & greatest HTML5/CSS/JS. (I know that the crowd here is > generally going to pooh-pooh that, but it's actually appropriate for > selling to the target audience. I'm mostly the same way, and have to check > my first instincts when dealing with this site.) > > I've used Plone in the past, but support seems a little thin these days > and it's pretty heavyweight for this project. > > I saw the thread about "Creating a blog..." a year ago, but time has > passed and his use case is significantly different from mine. > > I'm looking for actual, recent experience with a CMS, not "I know a guy > who used to run..." kinds of things. > > Suggestions? > > > --Paul
