I apologize for this page's lack of visual appeal, but I basically just need a place to collect links and information regarding content management systems.
www.cms-forum.org is a collection of information gleaned from the cms-list.
www.cmsml.org is an attempt to create and XML standard for describing content managed markup languages. It includes a link to a Gilbane Report on CMS systems as well as a listing of open source CMSs.
I've been trying to use OpenCMS for a project I'm working on but am frustrated by the lack of documentation. I acknowledge the project is open source, but the absence of documentation of peculiarities important to people starting out with it is of glaring annoyance.
To that end, here are some comments:
In the online tour of OpenCMS, a really slick news module is shown and was one of the attractions to using OpenCMS. Later, after much looking around, I discovered the news module that figures prominently in the tour is not available as open source, but instead must be licensed separately (at cost) from OpenCMS' creators, Alkacon.
There is no documentation about how to import an already existing site into OpenCMS. As it stands today (11Feb2004) there is none. HTML files don't exist inside OpenCMS as HTML files, but instead as OpemCMS-formatted XML files. Loading HTML does not translate into the required form.
It's difficult for me to believe no one using OpenCMS imported a large website that already existed. Are the only OpenCMS users using the product building their sites from scratch?
While loading .zip files into a package be mindful of the BLOB size of the database. My configurations are using MySQL. MySQL's configuration must be changed to use a packet size larger than your largest file. Mine is set to 8MB.
Beware of files with illegal names. My directories contained multiple .nsconfig files. I don't know what they're used for (frontpage, maybe?) and deleted them.
The alert box that displays errors from OpenCMS is not resizeable. This makes it difficult to examine stacktraces inside the alerts details.
When errors happen unzipping files (during uploads) the offending filename is not included in the exception report. This makes it difficult to see how far the upload progressed before crashing, or again, what filename caused the problem.
There will likely be other things that work pleasantly or not. I'll attempt to record them as I discover them.