A ‘CMS’ is nothing more than a “content management system”
by cindy ~ December 3rd, 2007. Filed under: software.http://absolutely-australia.com.au/
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This started about 3 yrs ago using Drupal. What a pain in the butt every time you wanted to do something. Read endless pages of geek talk just to figure how to do it! I got better things to do with the very little free time I have!
Then switched to Mambo. Easy to skin. Easy to set up. Most of the module add ons were fairly easy to install. But try & make it anywhere near standards, and ya spend forever tearing it apart practically file by file.
Progressed onto Joomla. Good in so many aspects. But I wanted more skin flexibility & feed abilities, and be able to import various bits of code that it wouldn’t allow for.
Always had a directory running, and as Paul (TOLRA Microsystems) & I discussed different functionalities, and ones that he has added for other users, I found that I no longer needed a CMS… because the directory script was pretty much doing everything I wanted it to do. So everything has been taken out of the CMS & put into the directory DB, which is now also a portal & self styled CMS. (after all…. a CMS is nothing more than a “content management system”).
Even after moving domains, url’s & then going live… there were so many search engines crawling all over it.
“2 thumbs up” Paul 
