Re: Social media and RPG

Blake,

Our church site is a Wordpress site. You can see what it looks like here: http://www.rlcs-slc.org/

There are so many plugins and utilities for WP that just about everything we need to do we can do in WP. I particularly like the email an article/update option. Makes the whole thing very easy to manage.

There are a couple of basic CMS's for Ruby on Rails as well. I am running Radiant on i here: http://www.roroni.com but there is also a Refinery CMS as well. Rails apps run quite nicely on i as well (much like PHP apps).

Plenty of options on i.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 11/12/2010 12:35 PM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks, Bryce. I was under the impression that Wordpress was targeted more
for blogging vs. corporate websites, but I will check it out. The number
of open source CMS solutions available is enough to make one's head spin.
I've found www.cmsmatrix.org helpful for making comparisons. Still, I
think going with one of the more popular solutions (e.g., Joomla!,
Wordpress or Drupal) is the best way to go. TYPO3, for example, appears to
offer just about every feature in the base product or as an add-on, but
I'd be concerned about availability of documentation and information
online.

Blake

Blake Butterworth | Senior Programmer Analyst | Kansas Turnpike Authority
| 9401 E Kellogg | Wichita, KS 67207 | (316) 652-2740


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message: 3
date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:35:15 -0500
from: Bryce Martin<BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Social media and RPG

I've used both Joomla and Wordpress. I would go with Wordpress. Wordpress

is much easier for doing custom templates and I like their API way better.

I'm actually starting up a hosting service based around Wordpress so that

you won't have to worry about the database administration or updating the
software. As far as running on the IBM i, that shouldn't be a problem. If

you are going to look at CMS's then take a serious look at Wordpress as
well as Joomla and Drupal.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777