Sunday, February 17, 2008

CMSMS = CMS Made Simple

This past week I've been on a search for a CMS that I could get my hands wet with, I looked at Drupal and CMSMS and ended up trying out CMSMS (CMS made Simple) - it was pretty easy to install and offers installation checks and tips along the way to make sure you get it installed right and points out pitfalls to you so you don't have to deal with them later. After downloading it I got it installed on my test Fedora box under Apache in less than 20 minutes. I had a nice test page looking at me that I could customize and am now left with the task of finding a good template for the client I'm setting up this CMS site for (as an Intranet) - so I looked around and while the template sites that exist for this software have some neat stuff, a Google search found even more interesting ways folks have setup templates and done their pages. Here are the top six I could find looking around. Each has common CMSMS signatures, but some have gone quite far with customizations and neat features. Check these screenshots and links to the actual sites:


http://www.fairgroundsessions.nl/ http://www.nectre.com/ http://feigin.us/

http://www.mchsband.com/ http://www.cnwcentral.com/neopets/ http://www.springfield-nj.us/

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