What, if any, content management program are you using? How do you like it, and what features do you like the best/least?
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What, if any, content management program are you using? How do you like it, and what features do you like the best/least?
We use a custom script right now which should soon be available to other webmasters ;)
Regards,
Lee
So is anyone using any commerically available scripts? Or is everyone having someone write one specifically for their paysite content management?
we are using a script our tech people made for our sites. However, I want to change it to a php based one that my best bitch made. (He knows who he is.)
My friends over at Jizz4U use something called Mambo. Other then the name i know nothing about it.
Yea, I am hearing that using php based would be the best bet.
php, to me is so much easier then some messy perl script. Haven't used much asp stuff. From what I was told it is the php of the windows world.
At the risk of exposing my ignorance, what does a content management program do?
manage content :evil:
I'd think using PHP would be a lot easier if you need to tweak things. PHP is a lot easier to read and understand than the perl vomit. :)
I'd think using PHP would be a lot easier if you need to tweak things. PHP is a lot easier to read and understand than the perl vomit. :)
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Originally posted by andymike
manage content :evil:
Can you give me an example of how you use it?
www.jocksnow.com and rateajock.com
All content is handle by the CMS and can be movied arround at any time to anywhere i wish it. CMS for paysites work in almost the same way.
You put content on a server, you tell it when and where, and it put it there. Based off your templates.
Thanks, Andy. Still somewhat over my head, but I'll eventually get it. :dunce:
ugh, wrong button... Lee delete me :specs:
Hit me up in PM. I'll go over it more with you. :angel:
Sent ya some info in PM Tony. Hope it helps ya! Let me know if you want to know more about them. :specs:
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Originally posted by Hotpopporn
Thanks, Andy. Still somewhat over my head, but I'll eventually get it. :dunce:
Was trying to organize my favorites links (they're massively out of control lately) and saw the one for Hotscripts .... so went over and started doing some searches for a couple scripts I've been wanting, and happened to punch in content management in their search box and WOW!! Listings out the butt for any platform you could possibly want!
Saw some kewl stuff for designers wanting to build sites their not so savy clients might like for a way for them to maintain their own sites too! Here's just what came up under PHP based (over 15 pages)
PHP Content Management Programs
Hopopporn,
Here's what a good content management system should do:
-catalogue pictures for you by some user pre-set criteria, i.e. type of guy, cock size, activity
-resize pictures and generate galleries
-you should be able to request a gallery of pictures consisting of 12" cocks, for example, prepared into thumbnail galleries of x thumbnails per page
-it'd be nice if it would fish out duplicate images for you
-it should be able to optimize images so they're web ready
Those are just a few of the things I'd like from a content management system.
One that I hear of now and again is called ContentGod.
Cheers
Dzinerbear
You can find out all you want to know about Content God here. There is even an online demo you can play with.
If you have questions about Content God, you can hit me up on ICQ at 146838770. We are a couple of weeks away from releaseing a new version that handles video.
The creators of Content God live in what country?
Just wondering because I just bought a very different kind of script, I was sold by the sales pitch on the website, but disappointed when I got the manual and I had to try and figure out what a Russian might be trying to say when he writes ... That's two weeks of my life I'll never get back, so this time I'm asking.
Content God, where were you created?
Thanks
Dzinerbear
hi there PornoDoggy - welcome to the GWW board ... here's hoping you'll stick around and give us more information on this program of yours ... it looks like it does everything but make coffee!
We were created in the U.S.A.
Pornodoggy,welcome to the board. I bought content god about a year ago but have never got one update.....is this video update the one that was supposed to be released 2 months after i got it??
Myexperience with it has not been very psoitive (to say the least)
I actually brought this up on another board the other day. One of my resellers (who is a wanna be designer) decided she had to have a CMS. I put one up & the she decided she needed something to manage photos. And then she wanted a portal.
I did have one gentleman actually put it the best I had seen:
I think CMS is so over-used right now. Sure, every program out there manages content to one extent or another.Quote:
In my opinion, most of the so-called "CMS" systems out there are misnamed. The definition of a CMS is Content Management System. 99% of the ones out there should more accurately be called Community Management Systems.
They are focused around a userbase - forums, user management, user submissions, etc. etc. A content management system should allow you to create, edit, delete, move, categorize, etc. content on your site - it should have nothing to do with users, other than giving them the ability to publish content (and there's no login on the site for this type of thing).
Mambo is a good example of a Content CMS. PHP-Nuke is a good example of a Community CMS (but a poor example of PHP coding).
We looked at every script out there before deciding to write ours in house. If you are cool with changing the way you do things a bit, you should look at some of these:
Monolith - http://www.speira.com/products.php
Site Depth - http://www.sitedepth.com/
MAS - http://www.mansionproductions.com/mas/
I believe that the NATS (http://nats.toomuchmedia.com/index.html) guys are also bringing one of these to market sometime soon.
The nice thing about writing your own (or having it custom coded) is that you can make it conform to your work flow rather than the other way around. Still, for the money, that Site Depth seems to be a pretty nice package. I have no affiliation with any of them, in case you're wondering. :-)
nima uses MAS, and it does a LOT of stuff. besides the normal csm stuff, it has a built in popularity poll, so that the most voted for video gets placed in our "members favorite video" spot.
anyone here ever see updatem? i only know one guy who uses it, but this is some cool stuff! each member sees a different number of updates, depending on how often he visits and stuff. you can control how often they see them, and one guy who visits once a week will see one update per week, while another guy who visits three times a week might see three - if you set it to show updates three times a week.
We're fairly tech savvy (though I haven't ever claimed to be a programmer by trade and haven't actually programmed for about 20 years) and have been looking at various content management solutions for quite a while.
As we've explored different options, we've more or less come to the opinion that most of the systems currently out there aren't ideal for our needs.
From my perspective, unless you're doing something fancy like showing different galleries to each member based on their viewing patterns, all the members are going to look at the same galleries, so there's no need for those pages to be generated on-the-fly, yet most of the content management systems I've seen store all the image data in a database and generate the galleries on the fly when they're viewed.
From my perspective, this has two potential problems, server load and database failure. If you have a site with a couple hundred members and you're on your own server, you'll have no problems. But if you have a site with a thousand or more members and/or multiple sites on the same server, you may find that at peak periods, the load on your server from the additional overhead required for the PHP preprocessor may cause it to get noticeably slow. And the databases do develop errors or corruptions every now and then... and so if something goes wrong, your whole site can go down.
That's not to say that there aren't some excellent PHP-driven sites out there with great reliability... but I'm pretty
much of the school of thought that if there's a choice of a simple approach that will do the job well, I'd rather choose the simple approach.
So what we're in the process of implementing is something that will automatically take the source images, rename, resize, watermark, and create thumbnails, place them into a static gallery page, and then update the other static pages (updates page, "our boys" page, etc.). It's not quite as elegant as a fully database-driven solution, but it's easier to back up, and if something goes horribly wrong, easier to restore to another server.
We probably will have a few pages that customize the user experience using PHP, but those will be just a small portion of the pages, and will be designed so that even if the database fails, the pages will still display properly.
Having been on the other end of the phone from unhappy webmasters (I also own a small hosting company), I know that the static sites, for me at least, mean more restful sleep :)
Just my 2 cents :)
So who has experience using the Mambo open source content management system? I recently learned a little about it and am considering trying it.
I have not experienced it (I am an ASP guy here) but I have heard great things about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by willwest
Latecomer to this post, but I am now trying to work with Mambo to handle my paysite as I make the move to Bad Puppy. It's totally cool but, unfortunately I am having a problem with my config file I can't seem to get past.
Mambo's open-source competitor is PostNuke which is much better supported by a developer/tech community but seems much less user friendly to those of us who need Dreamweaver to create an HTML table!
BTW, if anyone is an expert on Mambo, I would love your help on my issue. Ok, maybe I should be clear since I have more than one "issue"...the one involving the config file! :wacko: