[cma-l] Spotlight: CMS for community websites

[Bill Best]

Hi Tony

Please see below.

Tony Wilding wrote:
> Hi Tom, Castledown Radio make excellent use of joomla for its news 
> pages.http://www.castledownradio.info/
> 
> One good thing about sites built around CMS is the freedom it allows in the 
> number of editors (each with differing admin rights). So you can truuly 
> allow listeners to be interactive with the station web-site.
> 
> As an example you could allow them basic editor privileges and allow them to 
> post content on the site. The content needing admin approval before it goes 
> live.
> 
> A great way of compiling local news and community features, especially if 
> you appoint some-one from each part of your TX area as a representative 
> commenting on local news/stories. Much better than the standard forum type 
> usage found in most CMS.
> 
> hth Kind Regards Tony 

Joomla! (don't forget that essential exclamation mark) is a great CMS as
is Mambo.

And as Tom says, Drupal is an excellent platform as well.

The advantage of using open source content management systems with an
active user/developer community means that you are not tied to only one
supplier for support and development - you can take your business
wherever you choose.

CMS Made Simple is a personal favourite of mine:

http://www.cmsmadesimple.org

This is a great site that allows you to test many open source PHP and
MySQL based CMS's:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Best regards

Bill
-- 
Community Media Association
http://www.commedia.org.uk/