<p>I recommend <a href="http://werc.cat-v.org">http://werc.cat-v.org</a> as cms alternative.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Anselm</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 8, 2009 12:02 PM, "Hone Watson" <<a href="mailto:hone@codingstore.com">hone@codingstore.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Having used a lot of php and python cms, including Joomla and Plone,<br>
I would recommend anything other than Joomla or Plone. These are both<br>
pig cms's. Drupal or even Wordpress are better options than Joomla.<br>
Django over Plone.<br>
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Cliff Wells<<a href="mailto:cliff@develix.com">cliff@develix.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:39 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:<br>
>> >> - php-based<br>
>><br>
>> Because right now i know a little PHP, so if a PHP-based CMS happens<br>
>> to crash or if there's something i might want to change, i'll know<br>
>> what i'm looking at when i open the hood.<br>
>><br>
>> > For this and other reasons, we usually prefer Plone (Python-based,<br>
>> > <a href="http://www.plone.org" target="_blank">www.plone.org</a>).<br>
>><br>
>> Which would mean i'd have (or want) to learn Python. It's on my list,<br>
>> but not checked yet. Plus, this is obviously my opinion, i feel<br>
>> scripting languages make much more sense than programming languages as<br>
>> far as web-content goes. I like how PHP is embeded in HTML and<br>
>> vice-versa, makes sense to me.<br>
>><br>
>> I've barely explored Python, though, but i'll check out Plone.<br>
><br>
> Plone runs on Zope, which is pretty much the opposite of "lightweight".<br>
> It's huge and slow (although quite powerful if you want to dedicate a<br>
> goodly portion of your life to learning it).<br>
> You won't be able to handle any significant amount of traffic without a<br>
> dedicated server (better yet, two dedicated servers, one server running<br>
> Squid as a caching proxy in front of a Zope cluster on the other<br>
> server).<br>
><br>
> If you want lightweight and easy, I'd stick with a PHP blog or CMS<br>
> (although you'll want to be *very* wary of security flaws) *or* if you<br>
> are willing to learn Python (pretty easy), I'd consider using a lighter<br>
> Python framework such as Pylons or Turbogears.<br>
><br>
> Cliff<br>
><br>
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