Having spent the last several days actively searching for a content mangement system (CMS) for the Kansas City Clay Guild I have come to a realization.
PhpNuke is a brute. Its huge, to the point of being bloated. Now, the plus side of that is that it is amazingly flexible and expandable. The downside is that the overhead on maintenance and development is staggering (as I can attest to).
I don’t have any plans to migrate to a different CMS because I am eyeball deep in this site and I’ve spent too much time tweaking things to my liking. The photo gallery, comics, music section and news reader are all great additions. But if I had to start over again, I’d be a little more discriminating.
I ended up using AngelineCMS for the Clay Guild site. Its small, clean, fast and the layout and appearence can be handled really easily. Its basically blog software with a gallery integrated and a simple forum and link manager. It can also handle multiple levels of access and rss feeds. Perfect for what I needed.
So a word of warning to all of you looking to run a website. Choose well. I highly recommend opensourceCMS as a tool for making this choice. They have over 20 different CMS’s installed and availble for a test drive along with helpful reviews on many of them.
