The Ultimate Open Source CMS

Nathan WhiteCarleton College

nwhite@carleton.edu@natepixel

•Carefully designed. Easy for editors.

•Powerful. Nothing extra to download.

•A site is built from pages. Simple. Intuitive.

The Tale of Goldilocks

And the Three CMSs

Any CMS can break, butwe sit on them anyway.

Goldilocks sits on each ofthe CMSs to see how

they feel.

Not much there to sit on.

But add some of the 8911 available modules.(as of October 23, 2011)

Drupal

If you like cobbling together modules, Drupal is for you.

Used with permission of the artist - Pepe Heykoop

Sumo Sack Gamer by Flickr user SunToad - available under creative commons license

A comfy toolfor blogging.

Not a CMS.

Wordpress

Reason

Just Right.

Rocking chair on the deck by Flickr user Ed Yourdon – available under creative commons license

Next, Goldilocks puts on her “user” hatand digs into our

three CMSs.

How do they taste?

Drupal

•Nodes don’t taste very good.

•Many steps to make a web page.

•Blocks, views, menus, nodes, oh my!

•Drupal is hard.

Wordpress

•Tasty spices, but not enough substance.

•Creating blog posts is easy.

•Tools to create / manage pages limited.

•Content sharing is hard.

•Mmmm. Just Right!

•Publishing content is easy.

•Page navigation is automatically created.

•Goldilocks only sees the tools she needs.

Linking to other content is easy.

Goldilocks is a slugabed.

When she puts on her “administrator” pajamas, she wants a CMS that lets her

sleep at night.

She crawls under the covers.

•Goldilocks sleeps peacefully.

•She gazes at beaming faces during a Reason training.

•She explains - “You can do it yourself, here’s how!”

•Visions of happy templates, themes, and modules dance in her head.

Wordpress

•Goldilocks sleeps nervously ...

•The Theater Director calls, requesting online ticketing.

•Another call, the Dean, asking for a centralized campus event calendar.

•Yet another call, Off Campus studies wants a searchable directory of programs.

Drupal

•Goldilocks has a full blown nightmare.

•She relives the installation of a twitter module.

•A failed upgrade to Drupal 7 haunts her.

•jQuery 1.2 becomes a monster. Eeek!

Or maybe that’s the bears...

The Ultimate Open Source CMS

•Carefully designed. Easy for editors.

•Powerful. Nothing extra to download.

•A site is built from pages. Simple. Intuitive.