Saturday, April 19, 2003

Impressions of Geeklog: Geeklog sure is fast! It really makes my Postnuke installation feel really tubby. It's a great CMS for someone who wants an instant portal - it features a nice calendar, 6 skins out of the box, some simple customisation, and clean user interface. If it had better multi-lingual support, I would seriously consider it. They seem to have pretty good docs, so I could probably bake in the multi-linual suppport I am seeking.


11:41:50 AM    

I am currently testing a few open-source content managment systems. Some requirements:
  • Good developer documentation
  • Multi-lingual support:
    • ability to target a post to different language versions of a site
    • User may select preferred language form home page
  • Simple template editing - does not necessarily need to be forms-based
  • Developer can easily add fields to user database, as well as to article/file submissions
  • html or php files created outside the system can be easily integrated into the CMS's permissions system
  • Flexible permissions system
  • New posts e-mailed to subscribers
  • Database abstraction layer, with ability to work with mysql or others
Wishlist:
  • xml-rpc or SOAP interface to CMS internals (or at least suppport for Blogger API)
  • Ability to implement user blogs
  • News aggregator

11:33:46 AM    

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