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["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd AT syndicat.com>]

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Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk> schrieb:


>I would add that the enormous power and flexibility of a C.M.S.
ack.

>(Wordpress is also my favorite)

wordpress isn't a CMS, it is a specialized web blogging application - not 
less, but nothing more.

I know that many applications was incorrectly and are called a "CMS" today - 
especially as this term was widely coming up. But a CMS does much more then 
offering some formulars to create websites.

The "nice" thing of these LAMP apps are that they usually could hosted on 
many eco hosters hostspace and allows easy creation of small sites - the bad 
site is that they are not very well maintainable in security and very 
difficult to realize own complex web content structures. They are fully OK 
for smaller websites without the need of reliability and no higher load peaks 
etc..

There are very good reasons why i.e. organizations like RIPE, W3org and most 
others did not use someting like wordpress nor PHP
 at all.

I'm not in a position to recommend something here, but there are very good 
open source CMS as portal systems available which allows to run highly 
scalable and robust CMS websites and/or portales. From my experience i would 
recommend Plone here, but there are others very goods too.

Plone is well documented and used in even large to very large highest load 
websites on single servers or clusters. It allows easy "mirroring", data 
import/export and there are many ready to run extensions available. Defining 
your own content structures is easy, content is stored as such and in ZODB, a 
very nice oo database backend, brings multi media, multi theming, multi lang, 
a wide variety of portal features, a personal "Desk" for any user and much 
more - from my view a ideal base to found a new OpenNIC community portal 
website which can grow in each dimensions over many years.

May be it is worth to take a look at it as such a decision should be taken 
care as it usually is for years. There are several demos out and installation 
and setup of a new website incl. importing/selecting themes is easy too. 
There are theme importing tools out which allows to importing existing themes 
from others theme collections aso..

Just my two cents...


best regards,


Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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