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Previously on "Use 3rd party CMS Vs. Writing functionality yourself"
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Have a look at N2 Cms. It's lightweight and doesn't get in the way like other bigger Cms products.
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Originally posted by yasockie View PostThat is assuming that the 3rd party is secure.
Wordpress gets a new exploit every week, it seem, or anything else written in PHP for that matter.
Still I agree with the sentiment, Wordpress, especially hosted, that is kept updated, will be more secure than rolling your own.
The issue is plugins. Out of the box I find that WP requires at least a few of these to match the clients requirements and while they might do the job they may not be as secure as the core code. Many plugins do the same job, when was it last updated? Is the plugin author responsive to issues? No site will ever be 100% secure 100% all of the time but I need to know that what I'm using will have timely updates as issues arise.
There are security plugins that will inform you of an updates to any plugins you have installed including themes and very useful they are. So far I've never had an issue but need to do soem effort to make sure theses sites are as up to date as they can be.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postyou will be running security scans and paying bug bounties? Sometimes its easier using someone else's work and extending.
Wordpress gets a new exploit every week, it seem, or anything else written in PHP for that matter.
Still I agree with the sentiment, Wordpress, especially hosted, that is kept updated, will be more secure than rolling your own.
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you will be running security scans and paying bug bounties? Sometimes its easier using someone else's work and extending.
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI created an admin system, just downloaded a bootstrap admin theme (paid for a decent one). I reuse this or at least part of it on several projects. So the admin site looks the biz.
Use asp.net identity for login/rules etc. MVC5, dapper for DB access.
Then if i need new functionality for example a mini CMS I just add the functionality to this. Sounds like it your mini CMS is pretty basic and I would write my own.
That sounds like a ball ache to write so I may continue down the Umbraco / DNN route for the time being.
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I created an admin system, just downloaded a bootstrap admin theme (paid for a decent one). I reuse this or at least part of it on several projects. So the admin site looks the biz.
Use asp.net identity for login/rules etc. MVC5, dapper for DB access.
Then if i need new functionality for example a mini CMS I just add the functionality to this. Sounds like it your mini CMS is pretty basic and I would write my own.
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Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View PostGet the Courier Express add on that will help a bit
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Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View PostI think the main challenge is going to be training up my nontechnical client to use use Umbraco from what I've seen of it so far.
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Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View PostUmbracco is the most flexible and easiest to code on, but it comes with a heavy price of just being a bare bones CMS
But if you use it a lot, and reuse code libraries it quickly becomes a deployment platform and CMS
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Umbracco is the most flexible and easiest to code on, but it comes with a heavy price of just being a bare bones CMS
But if you use it a lot, and reuse code libraries it quickly becomes a deployment platform and CMS
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI wrote a fairly effective CMS system myself that was to be integrated into an existing application.
I looked at a few systems but in the end wrote it myself, got a java wiki library (bliki) for syntax conversion and hacked it up in a week.
A page would be a topic and that would have few text boxes for header, menu and footer which were also topics.
Integrated with bootstrap so you could put in raw html which would do your grids and stuff. Fully responsive.
Really you are talking 10-15 pages, and it works better than most of the mince out there.
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I wrote a fairly effective CMS system myself that was to be integrated into an existing application.
I looked at a few systems but in the end wrote it myself, got a java wiki library (bliki) for syntax conversion and hacked it up in a week.
A page would be a topic and that would have few text boxes for header, menu and footer which were also topics.
Integrated with bootstrap so you could put in raw html which would do your grids and stuff. Fully responsive.
Really you are talking 10-15 pages, and it works better than most of the mince out there.
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Use 3rd party CMS Vs. Writing functionality yourself
Putting a website together for somebody.
They want to be able to manage content - Edit / create pages based on 1 column or 2 column template & add a link in the nav bar. Content will go in a database, I guess.
Fairly basic stuff but I'm not that au fait with CMS & the digging around I've done has left me not being able to see the wood for the trees; I'm doing this with the .Net MVC stack so have been looking at Dot Net Nuke & Umbraco.
Half tempted to write the functionality myself - can't help thinking it'll be quicker than getting over the CMS learning curve. Anyone else doing this kind of thing?Tags: None
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