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Thread: Suggest a CMS

Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago by maggiebroon
Hello. Am working on a site for a client and am not sure what CMS to use. It needs to have: Customer Sign Up Limited content unless you are signed in When customer signs in takes them to the page they last viewed I am confident at building this in Joomla or Wordpress. I'd love to do it in Wordpress but am not sure about the last two points on my list there. Does anyone know of ...
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c2uk replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
To be honest, I'm no fan of customising Wordpress or Joomla beyond their basic uses, and only with some of the better supported and developed plugins. I personally would use Drupal - and have built a similar system using Drupal before. Though this again needs some customisation and definitely the use of some additional modules, and Drupal isn't as easy to start with as Wordpress and Joomla but...

maggiebroon replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thanks c2uk. I am reading the manual for Drupal right now as that was in the back of my mind. I just fear that as its got to be a quick build I might be better using something Im familiar with.

c2uk replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Quote: Originally Posted by maggiebroon Thanks c2uk. I am reading the manual for Drupal right now as that was in the back of my mind. I just fear that as its got to be a quick build I might be better using something Im familiar with. If you don't need much more customisation then you can do it fairly quickly, it's ...

maggiebroon replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the reply. It doesnt need to have e-commerce, I'm totally comfortable with how to build the thing in either Wordpress or Joomla except for the points stated. I think we are now going down the Joomla road as it has to be a quick build.

Jgardener replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
It really depends on how you want to present the content of your site. One person here might like the blog style of WordPress, while another likes the pages of Joomla. It really isn't something that can be decided by consensus. Just as we suggest people download phpBB and do a test install to see the features firsthand, you should do the same here. Neither offer ecommerce solutions built in, so ...

 

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Thanks for the reply. It doesnt need to have e-commerce, I'm totally comfortable with how to build the thing in either Wordpress or Joomla except for the points stated. I think we are now going down the Joomla road as it has to be a quick build.
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Quote: Originally Posted by maggiebroon Thanks c2uk. I am reading the manual for Drupal right now as that was in the back of my mind. I just fear that as its got to be a quick build I might be better using something Im familiar with. If you don't need much more customisation then you can do it fairly quickly, it's just a matter of identifying the right modules - definitely need Content Access (in combination with ACL if you need...
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It really depends on how you want to present the content of your site. One person here might like the blog style of WordPress, while another likes the pages of Joomla. It really isn't something that can be decided by consensus. Just as we suggest people download phpBB and do a test install to see the features firsthand, you should do the same here. Neither offer ecommerce solutions built in, so if you want to sell products that would need...

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