tutorial notes - Content Management System (CMS)

Free stuff

Linux
Apache
Mysal
Php
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JAVA -> Free/Commercial
J2EE
ASP -> Microsoft
ColdFusion


Related links:

CMSMATRIX -> good tool to find out stuff for CMS
open source CMS -> try out Mambo

Mambo:
- easy to set up and use (sells itself as)
- but tend to make things very genaric (?)

Joomia:
- similar to Mambo

Drupal:
- GOOD
- widely used (used by Bill)
- flexible
- can tag your information
- searchable (have search tool bar on your site)
- publishing option available (post can be chosen to be 'public' or 'private') <- nice!
- can create content, upload video and images all in one website <- cool!
- can have different style sheet for different types of post (easy to edit and set to your own preference) e.g set up rules and fonts etc...
- themes that can be configured (but customizing it is not that simple!)

Plone (wrong link.. to be edited)
- powerful system
- easy to run

wordpress (to be edited)
- widely used for blogs



Note: for web journal, making it for viewers to access you stuff easily can be a bit tough. Hard to arrange. (But i shall try and challenge it..)