Comments on: The Plumber’s House http://www.composibility.com/2006/05/04/plumber/ IT Solutions should assemble like Lego's. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Travis http://www.composibility.com/2006/05/04/plumber/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Travis Wed, 24 May 2006 19:28:37 +0000 /?p=4#comment-11 My comment about joomla and managing many content assets is a usability issue not technical. Joomla doesn’t have enough security restrictions against content categories or sections so anyone can do anything to all the content in the “administrator” application. Joomla has no folder structure for content in the administrator application. Joomla has no search for non published content in the administrator application. So when you have a bunch of content it may be difficult to find content in the administrator application. I am by no means an expert in joomla so their may be a way to easily administer a lot of content in joomla I just haven’t figured it out. There are many other OSS WCM’s out their. I guess for many pieces of content I would look into, in this order, drupal, midgard, typo3, plone, and opencms. The last two are not php based and may cost a bit more to host. My comment about joomla and managing many content assets is a usability issue not technical. Joomla doesn’t have enough security restrictions against content categories or sections so anyone can do anything to all the content in the “administrator” application. Joomla has no folder structure for content in the administrator application. Joomla has no search for non published content in the administrator application. So when you have a bunch of content it may be difficult to find content in the administrator application. I am by no means an expert in joomla so their may be a way to easily administer a lot of content in joomla I just haven’t figured it out.

There are many other OSS WCM’s out their. I guess for many pieces of content I would look into, in this order, drupal, midgard, typo3, plone, and opencms. The last two are not php based and may cost a bit more to host.

]]> By: Dennis Bragg http://www.composibility.com/2006/05/04/plumber/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Dennis Bragg Wed, 24 May 2006 04:46:41 +0000 /?p=4#comment-10 I am in the process of choosing a CMS package for www.roovle.com. The site will be very similar to a cross between www.consumerreports.org and www.consumersearch.com with hundreds (and eventually thousands) of research articles published by remote content publishers. I would like to understand your comment "In my opinion if you have a hundered plus pieces of content then Joomla is a little difficult to manage all that content." The limitation of not being able to update / handle hundreds or thousands of articles would make Joomla a non-start for me. What CMS package would you recommend as a low cost way to go. My/our funds are very limited for start-up. Thanks a bunch for considering my question. Dennis I am in the process of choosing a CMS package for http://www.roovle.com. The site will be very similar to a cross between http://www.consumerreports.org and http://www.consumersearch.com with hundreds (and eventually thousands) of research articles published by remote content publishers. I would like to understand your comment “In my opinion if you have a hundered plus pieces of content then Joomla is a little difficult to manage all that content.” The limitation of not being able to update / handle hundreds or thousands of articles would make Joomla a non-start for me. What CMS package would you recommend as a low cost way to go. My/our funds are very limited for start-up. Thanks a bunch for considering my question. Dennis

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