rcjordan
10-30-2004, 06:30 PM
Lately the top prospects for well-supported, high-end opensource CMS systems (3 php/mysql, 1 perl/mysql) have been drupal, ezpublish, typo3, and webgui. If I want to control multiple domains (some of them large) from the same admin panel and database, the list appears to get short very quickly: ez and typo. Of those two, speed of page rendering just feels faster with typo3, so I'm leaning that way.
Anyone have any experience with typo3? It's known to have a steep learning curve, but I'm really more interested in the speed.
BTW, you can compare the features of the above CMSs and others on http://cmsmatrix.org/
mediatech
11-04-2004, 02:50 AM
Anyone have any experience with typo3? It's known to have a steep learning curve, but I'm really more interested in the speed.
TYPO3 is the fastest I've experienced however you will need more server resources to power TYPO3 for a high site traffic. I recommend a VPS if you are planning on high traffic web sites. I use DINIX (http://dinix.com). TYPO3 caches page content and can produce static files.
I fell in love with TYPO3 the second I saw how easy it was to manage content with. I soon discovered the administration, configuration of add on features and template design in general took a bit more learning.
I was able to reduce template design to an HTML and CSS file and created with the intent of reducing the learning curve a year ago and left it in limbo until now. I'm in the process of redoing the site to keep it current. Feel free to post any questions on the forums which I recently set up for future tutorials.
http://mediatech.net
For the amount of power and flexibility TYPO3 offers it is very easy to use once you get through the large amount of documentation and learn the shortest path between 2 points. There is typically 2-3 ways to achieve the same results in TYPO3... the trick is finding the "easiest" one.
Here's a post on http://www.sitepoint.com (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1470499) regarding the complexity and learning curve of TYPO3 and some links to current community discussion on how we can make TYPO3 easier to learn here. (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1470499)
As for SEO advantages and speed I find TYPO3 excellent for Google. I targeted the keywords "typo3 template" and "typo3 templates" and have scored a #1 rank so far.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=typo3+templates
Regards,
Gregory Remington