Screenshots and Reviews of CMS apps. Especially focused on areas where they outshine Drupal.
Getting Help in the Drupal Community
I've been thinking a lot about what the major hurdles are to learn Drupal. One obstacle I've encountered is even learning how to ask questions effectively in the forums and how to interact with the community. Someone posted this article How to Ask Questions from Hackers and it really helped me understand how community supported help systems work and what info I should include in my questions. However, the tone in that article is a little harsh and I think we could make a friendlier version that's more Drupal Community specific.
Read moreCommonSpot [Placeholder]
I'll fill this in when I get a chance to snap some screenshots back at the office.
WordPress vs. Drupal article
Drupal core developer sun has written up a nice brain-dump of initial impressions of WordPress compared to Drupal, focusing mainly on the feature set, the installation and getting started experience:
HP - Autonomy - Interwoven - TeamSite [Placeholder]
I see that batsonjay has posted a few in-depth reviews of CMS systems recently. Do you have TeamSite on your to-do list? If not, I'd be happy to fill this page in. I've been working with the complete suite since 1999.
Ektron CMS400.NET
Ektron CMS400.NET (version 8.5 as of this writing) is targeted at Microsoft-oriented IT shops & developers building marketing-oriented sites. The company makes a determined effort to have some type of widget for everything under the sun, from document management to group spaces to calendar widgets to e-commerce & order processing, and on and on (with varying levels of depth & sophistication).
Read moreSiteCore CMS
SiteCore CMS (version 6.5 as of this writing) is targeted at highly-interactive marketing sites with fast-changing content & layouts, supplying an editor-friendly .NET-based framework, with an increasing focus on Web Engagement Management (definition, "5 Pillars" of WEM).
Read moreAdobe Customer Experience Solutions
Adobe Customer Experience Solutions ("ACES" herein) is a bundle of products including:
- Web Experience Management, which is essentially CQ5 and the other products acquired from Day Software (plus some enhancements since the acquisition)
- Digital Enterprise Platform, which is the new name for the formerly-named LiveCycle and CRX platforms.
The remainder of the information on this page focuses on the WEM/CQ5 product only. However, Adobe had now budled the products, so that new customers must (apparently) purchase the LiveCycle/CRX products in conjunction with their CQ5 purchase.
Read moreWordPress media features
drupleg has done an incredibly detailed analysis of the media handling features in WordPress, which you can find in the Media module issue queue at http://drupal.org/node/1291736#comment-5052814.
Squiz CMS
Last updated by kattekrab on Mon, 2012-02-06 01:58
Description
Squiz CMS is "a revolutionary open source content management system with a highly usable interface which makes it easy to create, publish and maintain engaging websites."
Here is a demo video:
Below follows a detailed breakdown of the main features, as well as what Drupal equivalents exist for replicating functionality.
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