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Are there any open-source check-in / check-out systems?

Opensource CMS?

  • Are there any good opensource CMS systems? Need to develop new CMS for a fairly big media site. Are there any open source CMS aplications that are any good? Thanks.

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    Better than a commercial system? I'm afraid I don't follow the question. They're free (as in beer), so that's a plus, and can do ... with some work, almost anything. A commercial system will probably have a support team who will build the site for you, for an hourly price. Drupal's workload to put a site up depends on how specific your needs are. You're probably going to want to write a custom theme, at the least (mostly html and css, with just a tiny bit of php in it..) A lot of functionality is offered through the Drupal custom modules that are pre-written, but if your needs are very specific, you might need to write your own modules. How much effort really depends on how much of "other people's creations" you're willing to rely on.

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http://cmsfromscratch.com/, while it looks simple, is actually very powerful in terms of what you can make with it and it's designed to be customisable.

teraspawn

Drupal is a superb CMS, but has a bit of a learning curve to use it effectively. http://www.drupal.org

frwagon

Drupal, or you can do anything with WordPress.

DarlingBri

Seconding WordPress. With plugins, you can do almost everything you could ever want.

aheckler

Drupal is the gold standard for flexible, powerful open source CMS. You can almost literally make it do ANYTHING, but the learning curve is steep. But very, very worth it. I'm using Joomla on a site as well, also open source. It's good, but has some predilections I'm not too fond of. But check it out. And, also, Wordpress. Depending on your value of "big" and your value of "media". But if big is actually big, you won't do any better than Drupal.

griffey

Are these really better than getting a commercial system? And, is there a lot of work that needs to be done to an open source system to make it work for you the way you need it to? Customize to your specific needs?

wanderlust_babe

Of all the open source CMSes Drupal is the one I have the most experience with and I have been quite impressed with it. It's quite well designed and what it does (which is a lot) it does well. But there are literally hundreds of open source CMS products that have different aptitudes and specializations. You might do well to figure out what particular features and capabilities would be of interest to you, narrow yourself down to several different candidates, and experiment with and ask questions about those in particular. Some interesting sites to take a look at might be http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ and http://www.eosdirectory.com/. (There are lots of other similar sites out there but those ones I've found the most informative.) On preview: Are these really better than getting a commercial system? And, is there a lot of work that needs to be done to an open source system to make it work for you the way you need it to? Customize to your specific needs? That's no simple question. For some applications Drupal or another OS product will be excellent and most commercial products would be a poor fit, and for many uses there are niche commercial products or commercial products with special capabilities that would be better than anything else. I am a software engineer who specializes in CMS projects - mostly ones using commercial products - and believe me, commercial products are by no means a "no customization necessary" situation, indeed there are many situations where something like Drupal would require far less customization because some's released a module which does exactly what you need.

XMLicious

You may also wish to check out http://www.djangoproject.com/, first developed for the Lawrence World Online, open-sourced, and now in use by washingtonpost.com, EveryBlock, and myriad others. It's not really a CMS but a web framework, and will handle anything you want to throw at it with aplomb.

The Michael The

http://bricolage.cc/ is an open source CMS widely used in the publishing industry. I think it was originally written for http://www.salon.com.

singingfish

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