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Dec
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2007
Adventures in CMS
I was wondering if there was a Personal Content Management System (CMS) available that liked me.
As of late I have installed Mambo and Joomla! Both systems seemed a little extreme. Not that Mambo and Joomla aren’t pretty nice, they are. All I’m saying is they seemed a little overkill for a personal site. I installed Joomla! for the Powder River Conservation District in Kaycee, Wyoming, and my fear is that (easy and useful as Joomla! may be) no one will read the manual.
Whatever system you use time has to be taken to understand it.
That being said it is my experience that systems have ‘intangible’ properties that do or don’t match up with the user; and it is these ‘intangibles’ that result in a user accepting a system or rejecting it.
I want a personal CMS that I can build a full fledged relationship with.
Just last week I installed Zen-Cart for my wife at www.billycreek.com so that she could sell some really tasty mixes, and I must say that Zen-Cart fits like a glove for what it is intended to do – sell stuff.
Is Textpattern going to ‘fit like a glove’? Am I going to really enjoy Textpattern? Are the intangibles and I compatible?
At this point I guess I would say I enjoy Textpattern more than Mambo or Jooma!, the backend seems cleaner. I still have to figure out a lot of things, like image manipulation and such.
While it may be too early to say for sure I seem to enjoy working in Textpattern; and that’s a good start.
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