Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
SilverStripe CMS
Category: Showcase
SilverStripe is an opensource CMS from Wellington, NZ.
The admin piece is built using Prototype, Scriptaculous and the TinyMCE rich text editor. It uses Object Oriented PHP5 and talks to MySQL backend.
There is a nice feel to using the explorer interface to manage files (e.g. hit rearrange and you can drag and drop), and then seeing your site in preview mode. A really nice touch is being able to see your site in draft, and compare it to the published version.
4.2 rating from 50 votes
Check Nenest.com, which offers you much more power but ask for much lower price.
“much lower cost”? SilverStripe is a free, open source (BSD) download!
Haha, someones making some pretty big assumptions there tony..
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he is spamming…he made the same suggestion on a completely unrelated article also.
Now that the article posting is fixed, maybe we can lobby for a function to allow us to “vote down” these posts, so they display as hidden.
I didn’t visit Tony Y.’s site, and I’m not going to, but checked it out with whois. The domain has only just been registered. Probably some scam.
Used Silverstripe a bit, switched from Joomla and very happy we did. As they are fellow wellingtonains, we have the joy of getting some first hand looks at Silverstripe as well… it rocks!
I too have used it, it’s great! Started using it for all client’s websites by default now. I find it much easier to understand than the likes of Joomla…
Thanks to Dion, this story got silverstripe.com onto del.icio.us and so I thought it should be digged too :)
http://digg.com/software/Using_AJAX_to_make_updating_websites_easy_SilverStripe
I have been looking for a easy to use CMS for creating simple content based websites myself. 2 things that I couldn’t figure out in SilverStripe:
1. How to create a template and apply it on the site. There is nothing in the demo to do the same.
2. Is there any support for workflow management? i.e. one guy writes content and submits for approval and the second guy approves it and then the content goes live.
Thanks
Sanjay
Your point in #1 is true with the demo; it is an idea to leave to the wider SilverStripe developer community but for the past 5 years we have used rich IDEs to edit templates and “configuration” files.
SilverStripe templates are essentially static, valid XHTML with a few tags inserted (rather than restrictive files that you try to bash in the head to look like what you want). Configuration files are PHP Objects; you use your PHP knowledge in a way similar to Cake.
Read Tutorial 1 at http://doc.silverstripe.com to get an idea of this.
Workflow management: yes; in the Security model you can set groups to to be SilverStripe Users which doesn’t give them the “Publish” button, and you can set up email notification to the publishers.
Feel free to email me directly email me at sigurd@silverstripe.com so that the conversation goes more quickly :)
I’d appreciate anyone’s thoughts on the AJAX/PHP CMS I’ve just published. It’s not free, at GBP100, but it’s extremely quick to use to make a client-updatable site. We’ll have some demo videos up in the next week. All feedback welcome. Cheers.
http://cmsfromscratch.com/
As someone who has worked on the CMS produced by “CMS from scratch” in Ben’s post above. Obviously I full endorse its use, but I would like to tell you why its brilliant.
Every system has its floors, no arguing here. I mean even the Linux OS has bugs. So the CMS is great because like Linux the turn around time for bug fixes is speedy and the company provide free support to anyone using their CMS.
However Linux is bulky and hard for the average user to use, this is where the CMS is better because it has a simple interface that anyone can pick up the most advanced of its features in about five minutes.
As having built several sites on the CMS I can tell you that it isn’t a hindrance to make it on the CMS as most developers find that CMS’s are either to advanced or hold you back, it can bring the right amount of level to you.
This makes it a great tool for developers to resell, because the end user loves its inviting looks and simplicity but the advanced developer can set up the CMS no fuss and develop at their own level.
I hope that might help you in understanding why I like it so much.
Thanks
Jonathan
someones making some pretty big assumptions there tony.
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My future CMS. I'’ll wait until the release of bilingual feature. From the demo, its simple & easy to use. Great cms for now
CMS is better because it has a simple interface that anyone can pick up the most advanced of its features in about five minutes.
As having built several sites on the CMS I can tell you that it isn’t a hindrance to make it on the CMS as most developers find that CMS’s are either to advanced or hold you back, it can bring the right amount of level to you.
This makes it a great tool for developers to resell, because the end user loves its inviting looks and simplicity but the advanced developer can set up the CMS no fuss and develop at their own level.
I hope that might help you in understanding why I like it so much.
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I like this one. It’s easy to use and there are great functions. I think I will have plenty of use for it.
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I like this one. It’s easy to use and there are great functions. I think I will have plenty of use for it.
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