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Podcast CMS needed

arniec — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:52:31 -0800

What CMS would you recommend for my podcast company? I've searched the previous Asks and not found a solution that fits my needs, so here goes:

I run a start-up company with 5 regularly published podcasts and we need a CMS. I have tried phpNuke and I am currently using, and very unhappy with, Joomla.

Here are the requirements I must have:
--VERY customizable look and feel so that while all 5 of our sites will be on the same CMS, they shouldn't feel like the same site. I have a graphic designer who has come up with some tremendous site layouts, but I need them implemented.
--EASY to customize templates (I know php, HTML, CSS, SQL... but still Joomla templates are a nightmare for me).
--Must be able to store the Podcast RSS feed in its database, while still handling non-podcast items, such as news articles, etc.
--Must be PHP based with a MySQL back-end
--Must have image gallery functionality
--Must have a fairly easy to use (blog or forum like) "Article add/update" feature so my podcast hosts can add content themselves without need for web design help.
--Site statistic logging (number of views, banner rotation, etc)

Features I would like:
--Blog integration
--Topic database search (with possibly thousands of topics)

After looking at solutions such as Drupal and Joomla and none of which do what I want without heavy modding and customization I am on the verge of starting my own Podcast-specific open source CMS (I have several experienced programmers on staff with me who can do this), but I have absolutely no desire to reinvent the wheel if the perfect CMS is out there for me and I'm just missing it.

Suggestions?

Find me a content management system that can hide posts!

aprivateperson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:30:06 -0800

Find me a content management system that can hide posts! I'm looking to install a simple Blog/Content Management System to create a blog which will hide certain posts or categories from unregistered users, and ideally allow some users to view all posts, and other registered users to view some posts. A lot like LiveJournal's friends-post system.

I've installed Movable Type and Wordpress, but neither of them seem to do the job. So any suggestions? :)

FCKeditor and PHPlist for Dummies

zharptitsa — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:11:49 -0800

Does anyone know where I can find REALLY BASIC guides for using (not installing) FCKeditor and PHPlist? Because I happen to be slightly more tech savvy than everyone else in my small, nonprofit office, I have been the default webmaster for our six-month old website. Now I'm taking another job. Before I depart, I must write a manual with very simple, step-by-step instructions on how to use our web editor and mailing list software. The problem is that while the other people in the office are proficient enough in Word and Excel, they have no other computer skills. If they were to cut and paste some text from Word into the editor and the formatting got messed up (as it often does), they wouldn't know how to fix it without some serious instructions (e.g., "Don't press Enter when you want to go down one line as you would in Word, use Shift+Enter").

If possible, I'd really prefer not to have to write FCKeditor and PHPlist for Dummies if it already exists somewhere out on the web. I've done a whole lot of searching and haven't found anything that is simple enough for my purposes. The wiki documentation and forums aren't much help since they mostly deal with installation and are written for people with far more advanced skills.

Any ideas? Even if you know of documentation that isn't for FCKeditor or PHPlist per se, but could still be helpful, that would be great too. Thank you!

Using WordPress as a CMS for non-blog sites.

lychee — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:37:29 -0800

I'd like to use WordPress as a CMS for non-blogging sites, but I can't seem to break out of the blog structure. Help, tips, and/or examples needed. I'd like to set up WordPress as a default CMS at work for the small sites I build for classes and professors. The problem is that most of these sites are not blogs, and are going to be pretty customized in terms of presentation and layout. The reason I want a CMS in place is because our department should not be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the site once we've produced it. Ideally the professor should not have to fiddle with HTML or FTP into our servers to update his syllabus.

WordPress seems like a pretty user-friendly CMS that is free for educational use that I can work with to get in place. Stuff like Drupple seems to be overkill for what I want, but I can't get a handle on how to customize WordPress so it's less blog-like. The sites need complex HTML and CSS for design and layout, and I need to be able to add video/PDFs/misc files. But the most important consideration is to make it easy for a professor to go in and change content.

Any examples of using WordPress for non-blogging sites would be wonderful.

How do you convince your boss that his website sucks?

godawful — Wed, 25 May 2005 10:10:47 -0800

How do I convince my boss that our site needs a major overhaul? I hate using and updating our site. I'm sure most of our users feel the same. It's got frames, it's poorly organised, there's far too much .pdf and .doc content, it comes nowhere close to standards compliance. I'd like to start from square one and get all this working in a good CMS. I can already see it in my head.

But as a poor technical communicator working for an old school, academic dragon, I'm having trouble verbally outlining the problems to my computer illiterate boss. He's dismissive of technology in general (he harbours an irrational grudge against Google), though he does recognise the value of having some sort of website. I've decided to write a memo summing up the site's problems and outlining the benefits of a new system.

So my question: Could anyone share experiences of communicating the benefits of standards compliance and other web issues with such people? With reference to our site, can you think of any benefits of switching to a good CMS which a non-technical authority figure would latch onto?

Many thanks.

Question number 8315

bob sarabia — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:52:03 -0800

I'm looking for a a cms like phpnuke or postnuke that offers selective membership. something like a membership form is emailed and reviewed before membership is allowed. or maybe a field in the form has to be filled out correctly or something. I think i'm just being an idiot and not looking in the right places, but i can't seem to find what i so desire. send help

Question number 4772

signal — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:44:31 -0800

I need a small scale content management thingie which will allow a large corporate client to easily update news items on their homepage, something simple where they just drop in a file into a folder and it shows up as a 1 line link on the homepage with a link to the full article.