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Help Needed: Advice about New CMS/Blogger Software
Well, as you can plainly see, Armchair Arcade is back to constant "max connections errors" (we love you, Modhost!). Anyway, we've decided to get very serious about moving to another CMS or blog package, and I'd like to get your advice about which one would work better than Drupal, which, unfortunately, needs much better hosting than we can afford to work properly. In Drupal's defense, it seems to do everything we need fairly well (though not perfect), and I'd sure hate to end up with something worse.
Essentially, what we're looking for is something that utilizes very little mysql database resources, does good caching, and can let us easily work with text and images. You've seen the kind of posts we make here; what software would let us do this most effectively and efficiently? It'd also be nice if it really made commenting easy, and perhaps had good support for a forum.
So far, I've heard people mention a few different options, particularly WordPress, phpnuke, and something called Zune (I think that's right). Anyway, just let us know your thoughts, particularly if you have lots of experience working with one of these engines. PLEASE chime in with your thoughts and suggestions. Even if you don't know much about this topic, at least let us know what features you'd like to have as a user. If you're having problems getting your response posted, feel free to email it to using the "Contact Us" button on the menu.
(Bill, Mark, please paste your "wish lists" here as well. Might as well get all the help with this we can.)
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We are currently testing
We are currently testing DragonflyCMS. Anyone have any thoughts on this one?
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
(A PC Magazine Top 100 Website)
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Mark wrote:I would like our
The only thing they've recommended so far is Movable Type. I'm not sure what you mean about a dedicated server. I think you'd need a special type of internet connection for that, maybe a T1 or at least a "static IP." Last time I checked into that, it was thousands per month.
Matt Barton wrote:gameCMS: A
This one looks pretty interesting. Apparently, the full commercial version with integrated forums is only $50, and the lite version is free. It looks like it's also integrated with phpbb2.
Sounds good and might even let us easily put up that museum site I wanted to, but it still sounds a bit immature:
* At the moment only IE6 or FireFox are officially supported - gameCMS should work in other browsers but has not been officially tested yet. The gameCMS community has reported that it does seem to work well in both Opera and Safari.
* You are expected to be running your browser maximised or in fullscreen mode at a resolution of 1024x768 or better while using gameCMS. If you open gameCMS in a smaller window then you may need to refresh for gameCMS to fit the window if you resize it.
I'd hate to be a beta tester for someone. We've done that twice before.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
(A PC Magazine Top 100 Website)
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Matt Barton wrote:gameCMS: A
This one looks pretty interesting. Apparently, the full commercial version with integrated forums is only $50, and the lite version is free. It looks like it's also integrated with phpbb2.
I would like our host to comment on the various packages they should be able to state whether or not a CMS will work with our current hosting deal. I'd hate for us to start working with yet another CMS system and have it stop dead in it's tracks. How about having one of our own systems host the site with a dedicated server?
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Xboxlive gametag
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gameCMS: A CMS Designed for
gameCMS: A CMS Designed for Gaming Sites.
This one looks pretty interesting. Apparently, the full commercial version with integrated forums is only $50, and the lite version is free. It looks like it's also integrated with phpbb2.
The only thing I'm unsure
The only thing I'm unsure about is the lack of any good sites actually running dragonfly. I looked at their list of links, but most of them were dead...! Also, I didn't see a way to upload/insert an image into a post and add a caption. I'm not sure if there IS no way, or if that's just crippled in the demo version I looked at online. Still, I don't want to give up on it yet.
The Dragonfly CMS also seems
The Dragonfly CMS also seems to meet one of my personal requirements of being free. We certainly can't afford some of the prices on the full versions of some of those other CMS'.
As for openserving, it's a nice idea, but that's more of a thing to do if our move to a version 3.0 on our own failed. We'd have to consider that and other opportunities where AA subordinates itself in the interest of being free from the hassles of administration.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
(A PC Magazine Top 100 Website)
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Mark Vergeer wrote:I came
That's a very interesting engine. From what I can see, the sites are hosted by the Wikia foundation. We'd have to get in touch with Buck to have him switch the DNS if we wanted to go this route. Still, it looks like a very promising setup. I really like the bottom-up administration, though I'm not sure it would work well for a small community like ours (you'd need a great many participants to make it really sing). I found an article on it here.
But hold the tacos...Check out DragonFly CMS. It's voted tops in performance on the CMS Matrix, plus listen to this:
PhpBB! Yay. I also like the idea of being able to use bbcode, and the built-in support for images should help us tackle getting them into articles.
I'm salivating:
50% fewer! I think if we're really looking for something that'll run fast and give us that phpbb feel, this is the one.
I came across this
I came across this http://www.openserving.com/ created by the people behind Wikipaedia, they are offering tools for building your own community.
But what is it? According to the company Openserving extends the essence of the open source model — free software and content — to all aspects of web-based computing. You can set up your own collaborative blogging site. All articles are sorted democratically.
Sound good?
Here's a bonus: keep 100% of the ad revenue for yourself.
Sounds good maybe worth investigating. The software they use for their service is made by ArmchairGM (http://armchairgm.com/) now isn't that coincidental. ArmchairGM is a good looking sports website.
My wish list:
- easy access
- forum or discussion facilities
- easy formatting and picture / multimedia facilities
- searchable content
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Xboxlive gametag
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I assume you know of this
I assume you know of this site: http://www.opensourcecms.com/
You can test drive all kinds of CMS and forum packages.