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Use 3rd party CMS Vs. Writing functionality yourself

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  • MicrosoftBob
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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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  • minestrone
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    Help:Wiki markup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  • Gumbo Robot
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    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.
    What did you need the java library for? Not familiar with syntax conversion...

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  • minestrone
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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?

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