[ajug-members] CMS system for church site

[Thomas, Dave]

Plone is nifty for small, relatively simple sites, as is Drupal.  For a church website, I'd look first at Drupal since it'll run on any ordinary web hosting company (keep security patches up to date though).  I've heard great things about Alfresco+Liferay too, and would really start there.

For a project that you may put hundreds of man-hours into, see if the Java route will work instead.  I worked on a Zope3/Plone project for a startup 3 or 4 years ago which a real "learning experience."  While there was a lot of user documentation for small websites, there was at the time very little in terms of developer documentation.  If you want to tweak skins, and do the exact stuff the way it's described in the book, you're ok.  We wanted to bootstrap ourselves a dot-com, but didn't have the funds to get trained by the Zope Corporation.  Note the zope.org site's down now, as is Plone.org's link to "The Definitive Guide to Plone."


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Smith [mailto:ricksmith at mindspring.com]
Sent: Thu 6/12/2008 8:09 PM
To: ajug-members at ajug.org
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] CMS system for church site
 
I've been using Joomla and find it to be relatively easy to set up and 
admin. Changing the appearance is also very easy and there are lots of 
plugins. I've heard good things about Alfresco but haven't used it.

Rick

Barry Hawkins wrote:
> You can get a *ton* of Plone feedback on the Atlanta Python User Group  
> list.  Small and non-profit groups typically are looking for a system  
> that's "set-and-forget" and runs on dirt cheap hosting.  These are  
> factors that rule out Plone for something like the group mentioned in  
> the original posting.
>
> Barry
>
> On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:23 PM, JUS YES wrote:
>
>   
>> has anyone used Plone and appreciate any feedback around this..
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:50 PM, David Chandler <david.chandler at learnjsf.com 
>>     
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>> Also Alfresco CMS is very nice. Has built-in integration with Liferay
>> portal. Both open source, run on Tomcat or JBoss.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:35 AM, mike barnes <mdb3624 at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> Can someone recommend a good Content Management System which I  
>>>       
>> could use for
>>     
>>> setting up a church website? I have considered using Joombla but  
>>>       
>> am open to
>>     
>>> other solutions.
>>>
>>> However, since it is a small church (read no budget for IT) it  
>>>       
>> needs to be a
>>     
>>> free or very low cost solution.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mike Barnes
>>>       
> [...]
>   


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