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["William Lester" <wlester AT engenderhealth.org>]

Stan,

 

For our bilateral projects, we've been using an open source CMS called TYPO3. While it may not be the best CMS out there, it certainly has met our needs. Here's an example of a web site set using templates we designed with TYPO3:

 

http://www.aware-rh.org/

 

http://www.typo3.com/

 

Now, if I were to do this again today, I would strongly consider DRUPAL or PLONE A good friend of mine (who's tech recommendations I really respect) at ONE/Northwest has become a PLONE guru. He has nothing but good things to say about both products. I've attached a thread from the Riders-Tech listserv which discusses some of the products.

 

Hope this info helps.

 

Cheers,

 

Bill Lester

 

 

 

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William A. Lester
CIO/Director of Technology
EngenderHealth
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>>> smierzwa AT popcouncil.org 1/20/2006 10:49:37 AM >>>

Hello.

Hope you are all are doing well.

We are beginning to evaluate content management systems for use on our web sites at the Population Council.  We are eager to move to a full DB driven model for managing our sites content, and I am querying this list to determine if any of you have already undertaken such a project.  If you have, would you please share what product and technology you selected to provide CMS?  Are you content with the selection? 

Thank you and best regards,

Stan

Stanley J. Mierzwa
Director, Information Technology
Population Council
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
New York, New York  10017
(212)339-0538
http://www.popcouncil.org

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• From: "Jon Stahl" <jon AT onenw.org>
• To: <riders-tech AT npogroups.org>
• Subject: RE: [RIDERS-TECH] php portal/content system recommendations
• Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:17:17 -0800

At ONE/Northwest, we're actively testing both Drupal (which we like for
the reasons bob describes below, plus its excellent taxonomy features),
as well as Plone (www.plone.org) which is distinguished by its very
robust Zope backend as well as its best-in-breed strict adherence to
CSS, cross-browser support, 508 accessibility, etc.

best,
jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schmitt [mailto:bob AT groundspring.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:35 AM
To: Kent Livingston
Cc: <riders-tech AT npogroups.org> <riders-tech AT npogroups.org>
Subject: Re: [RIDERS-TECH] php portal/content system recommendations

We're actively testing Drupal for use in a number of sites, including
the back-end for the ebase community. So far, I like it a lot. Once you
have your LAMP stuff in order (versions, modules, permissions), Drupal
installation is a breeze, most of the code is understandable (!) and the
user community is really helpful.

bob

On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 06:53 AM, Kent Livingston wrote:

> Thanks, I'm still experimenting so appreciate further input and
> experience.
>
> I've put the most time into postnuke and while there are some great
> features some things like it's permission system seem like it was
> developed on Pluto. I'll check out mambo.
>
> Kent
>
> On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:41 AM, Dan McQuillan wrote:
>
>> hi kent
>>
>> you might also want to have a look at mambo
>> http://www.mamboserver.com/
>>
>> some possible advantages are:
>> - aims more at regular sites, and not just blogs and/or community
>> portals
>> - user-friendly back end for the non-techies
>> - active community
>> - uses templates
>>
>> a downside is that, although it uses templates, it still uses html
>> table layout and some of that is mixed up in the php code.
>> OTOH, the developer of a fully css/xml compliant fork has now joined
>> the core development team.
>>
>> i think drupal http://www.drupal.org/ is overall a more powerful
>> system, and a few geeks i know are using it to run their own sites.
>> but i don't think it'd be so easy to make it suitable for a non-tech
>> administrator.
>>
>> HTH
>> dan mcquillan
>> [Dr. Dan McQuillan / Multikulti project / 020 7377 1226 /
>> www.multikulti.org.uk ]
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kent Livingston [mailto:klivingston AT worldwebsystems.net]
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 04:57
>>> To: riders-tech AT npogroups.org
>>> Subject: [RIDERS-TECH] php portal/content system recommendations
>>>
>>>
>>> Over the last few months I've started working with phpbb (message
>>> board/forum - phpbbb.org) software for a number of clients. Both the
>>> clients and I are pretty happy with the way it can be adapted and
>>> tweaked to fit their needs in unexpected ways that are improving
>>> communication, reducing email, and making organizational process
more
>>> visible.
>>>
>>> What are the current recommendations/thoughts on 'mature' (strong
>>> support community and stable add-ons/mods) portal/content management
>>> software? Before getting to phpbb I went through a number of other
>>> forum software packages and the process is time consuming ;-0.
Nuke,
>>> Postnuke... is it mostly stylistic differences? If you have a link
>>> to
>>> an old item that covers this topic if you could re-send it that
would
>>> be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Kent
>>>
>
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