Thursday, July 17th, 2008
For some time, I have been looking for a versatile CMS (content management system) that would allow my mind to wander. So far, I have set up some pretty nice systems. They are meeting my goals, but I wanted to see how things would be outside the realm of business. I mean, a new website would certainly be set up under the business name, but it would be sort of a hobby site in the beginning and we would see what it looks like after a year or two.
There is a blurry line between CMS applications and blog applications now. I understand blogs are becoming actual CMS applications, so who knows what will happen with that. I can see WordPress staying my favorite for a while, but I feel like learning something new.
Here are some of the top open source CMS applications I looked at:
- Joomla
- e107
- Drupal
- Plone
- Mambo
- PHP-Fusion
- PHP-Nuke
- XOOPS
After going over a bunch of these, I decided upon Joomla (along with about a million other people). Just to let you know, there is a really great website that lists many top content management systems, along with blogs, wikis, etc… All listed systems are open source and the website has a link to their homepage as well as a demo of the front page and the admin. This helped tremendously during my research.
I really don’t know what I am going to do with this website yet, but I am sure that once I go through all the plug-ins, I will start forming a plan. For now, I am just going to do the install and document the process here. After that, I will document all the exciting things I come across.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
What’s a Wiki? That’s easy…a Wiki is a website that holds a bunch of articles that are able to be edited by anyone on the web. A Wiki is kind of like a little universe unto itself. It’s own pages are linked together making browsing similar topics very easy to grasp. Of course, there are links to outside websites too. That’s what makes it so much fun.
Here’s a list of some of the more popular Wikis.
Wikipedia (encyclopedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Wikibooks (textbooks):
http://en.wikibooks.org/
WikiHow (how-to guides):
http://www.wikihow.com/
DotWiki.US (seo, internet marketing, ecommerce):
http://www.dotwiki.us
Wikimapia (map annotations):
http://www.wikimapia.org/
Wikinews (original reporting and analysis):
http://en.wikinews.org/
Wikiquote (quotations from famous people and texts):
http://en.wikiquote.org/
Wikisource (library of previously published texts):
http://en.wikisource.org/
Wikispecies (species directory):
http://species.wikimedia.org/
Alternative Energy Wiki (alternative energy):
http://www.sun-volt.com/wiki/
Wikitravel (travel guides):
http://www.wikitravel.org/
Wikocracy (fantasy legislation):
http://wikocracy.com/
Wiktionary (dictionary):
http://en.wiktionary.org/
Uncyclopedia (satire):
http://uncyclopedia.org/
Lostpedia (TV’s Lost):
http://www.lostpedia.com/
Muppet Wiki (Jim Henson’s Muppets):
http://muppet.wikia.com/
Scifipedia (All science fiction):
http://scifipedia.scifi.com/
Wookiepedia (Star Wars):
http://starwars.wikia.com/
Conservapedia (Christian conservative):
http://www.conservapedia.com/
dKosopedia (Liberal Democratic):
http://www.dkosopedia.com/
SourceWatch (anti-corruption):
http://www.sourcewatch.org/
Take a look and let me know what you think.
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