Nick W
10-12-2004, 07:07 AM
Hi,
This post is for those of you that are either CMS savvy or not. If you're
still building sites by hand, then I hope you'll find this particularly
useful.
Please add your favorite SE Friendly CMS software
I can only really comment on the ones that I know about ;-)
SE Friendly CMS Systems
Drupal.org (http://drupal.org)
This is community building software but can easily be "dumbed down" to act as
an information site, shopping site or almost anything else you'd care to
mention. It's my personal favorite. It's SE freindly straight out the box,
you just need to enable some modules in the admin panel. I wrote a tutorial for this here (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=1823) The
new drupal 4.5-rc1 is now out, i can tell you from personal experience that it
ROCKS!
Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com)
A couple of my friends really like this one, i've not tried it but I
understand that with a mod-rewrite module added it'll be totally SE friendly.
Has all the standard features you'd expect from a CMS package.
Typo3 (http://typo3.com)
For larger, multi authored sites this looks like a dream, has one varible in
the urls straight out of the box but i beleive there is a mod for this. The features
list (http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html) proves this and is quite a read! - Looks tough to get to grips with initially but
for large corporate websites this one just looks Wicked...
XOOPS (http://www.xoops.org)
Similar to Typo3 in the web applications it's best suited for (larger sites)
XOOPS is *not* as SE Friendly as the above 3. URLs typically have 2/3 vars in
them and the modules have a deep directory structure. Why am i listing it
then? - because it's a serious bit of kit is why! I've used it personally and
it really is quite somthing. There are mods to make it SE Friendly.
Please add the CMS you use to this list!
So, if you're looking for an FREE CMS system that's SE friendly, start
with the 4 systems above and then work your way through the other suggestions
that i hope will follow this post, have fun!
Nick
This post is for those of you that are either CMS savvy or not. If you're
still building sites by hand, then I hope you'll find this particularly
useful.
Please add your favorite SE Friendly CMS software
I can only really comment on the ones that I know about ;-)
SE Friendly CMS Systems
Drupal.org (http://drupal.org)
This is community building software but can easily be "dumbed down" to act as
an information site, shopping site or almost anything else you'd care to
mention. It's my personal favorite. It's SE freindly straight out the box,
you just need to enable some modules in the admin panel. I wrote a tutorial for this here (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=1823) The
new drupal 4.5-rc1 is now out, i can tell you from personal experience that it
ROCKS!
Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com)
A couple of my friends really like this one, i've not tried it but I
understand that with a mod-rewrite module added it'll be totally SE friendly.
Has all the standard features you'd expect from a CMS package.
Typo3 (http://typo3.com)
For larger, multi authored sites this looks like a dream, has one varible in
the urls straight out of the box but i beleive there is a mod for this. The features
list (http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html) proves this and is quite a read! - Looks tough to get to grips with initially but
for large corporate websites this one just looks Wicked...
XOOPS (http://www.xoops.org)
Similar to Typo3 in the web applications it's best suited for (larger sites)
XOOPS is *not* as SE Friendly as the above 3. URLs typically have 2/3 vars in
them and the modules have a deep directory structure. Why am i listing it
then? - because it's a serious bit of kit is why! I've used it personally and
it really is quite somthing. There are mods to make it SE Friendly.
Please add the CMS you use to this list!
So, if you're looking for an FREE CMS system that's SE friendly, start
with the 4 systems above and then work your way through the other suggestions
that i hope will follow this post, have fun!
Nick