CMS Recommendation

[LondonManc]

Away from .NET world, I had a look at WordPress v Joomla v Drupal. I've previously used Joomla and am now giving WordPress a spin. Drupal is far more technical than I'd like but is the most powerful; while it's not .NET, it could be something that you could pick up easily enough?

[woohoo]

How did it go?

I'm in a similar situation and my team have been 'evaluating' Umbraco for a few weeks now. More like to get the darn thing to work but have reached a point where it seems to be more grief than just to do without a CMS.

I didn't get much further than looking at Orchard and Python.net. I'm also not entirely convinced I can do what I want in a CMS, well at least if it would be a time saver. It may be I can achieve what I want by changing the way the pages are designed. So make sure the designers do the html/css and they maintain that. And the developers fit the code in the html design.

A big issue I'm having is the designers are pumping out different designs or variations then the developers have to get them working in a responsive/adaptive website. The designs then have to work on hybrid iOS/Android apps with various screen sizes. Also, other websites themed differently use the same pages and on top of that multiple language support.

By pushing out the html/css work to the designers it reduces the load on the developers but may also curb the amount of "different" designs we have to implement. If the designers have to get their designs working with so many devices, screen sizes etc surely they will have less time to produce new designs

And by using say something like https://github.com/RickStrahl/Westwind.Globalization I could perhaps reduce the amount of time spent managing resource files.

So in the end a CMS may just be adding another layer of complexity.

If anyone else has managed to solve this let me know. I miss the days when I only had to deal with IE and fixed width designs

[stek]

I don't think I've seen anything Opensource for enterprise that's worth the effort of dicking around with it, endless googling for answers only to find the 'answer' doesn't solve the issue because it was from some 15 year old kid pissing about with a Raspberry Pi...

[fullyautomatix]

I specialise in Sitecore which is .NET based but fairly expensive and very restrictive licensing model. Its not easy to get hold of a developer edition and it is not open source. But its extremely extensible and ranks number one.

[garethevans1986]

I've worked with Umbraco for years, can recommend it but it does put a constraint on MVC eg cant post a form back to the same controller.

GE

[DimPrawn]

Orchard is supported by the .NET Foundation, which is part of Microsoft. It's is Open Source and built on MVC.

So that's a good one to start with in your evaluation.

[zazou]

Umbraco is sh1t

How did it go?

I'm in a similar situation and my team have been 'evaluating' Umbraco for a few weeks now. More like to get the darn thing to work but have reached a point where it seems to be more grief than just to do without a CMS.

[woohoo]

My problem is that I can't actually think of any that are that good... Most still use web forms instead of MVC....

I understand Python.net and Orchard seem to use MVC - guess I'm just going to have to put in the work to evaluate them.

[eek]

My problem is that I can't actually think of any that are that good... Most still use web forms instead of MVC....

[woohoo]

I know those words, I also know that I can't think of a .net CMS system that I actually like....

How about steer clear of... or this is the least bad?

[woohoo]

Good story bro.

[eek]

I know those words, I also know that I can't think of a .net CMS system that I actually like....

[SimonMac]

[woohoo]

Hey all,

I'm looking for a recommendation for an open source or paid for CMS. The main requirement is that I have access to the code and can enhance it.

It has to be written .net and would be great if it worked well with resource files for languages. Or had some kind of 3rd party integration that would allow easy management of resource files.

The end result that I want to achieve is a CMS that would allow a designer to be able to create templates/layouts in and then drop on components/widgets created by a developer. It would be great if a translator could then pick up that page and update the associated resource files.

I'm still evaluating Orchard, Umbraco and Python.net but if anyone has done something similar would be great if you could recommend a product. Or if you want to warn me off a CMS let me know.

Cheers