Searching for right Web CMS - Standards Compliant, SEO Capable, Extendable
We’ve been on a hunt for a Web CMS for the past 3 or so months at work. Admittedly it hasn’t been nose to the ground that entire time, but I’ve been abit frustrated by some of what I’ve found. Here are my top 3 requirements.
- I want it to support Web Standards, which in my mind means that it’s not going to add garbage code in to the templates we define for it, and it will support whichever client side DOM libraries we want to use - be it jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, or whatever.
- It’s got to be able to support the SEO stuff we need to do - of which I do believe that the average content editor is still not going to be aware or have knowledge of all the things that will need to be done in that realm, as well as not knowing how much the WCMS would be able to “automagically” support some of the things (Google sitemaps, adding links to all the navigational structures that need them, etc etc).
- We need to be able to plug-in or adapt it to our needs. We’d need to plug in custom code/scripts that hit other databases of info that we have.
I know there are already a ton of articles out there on this subject but my former boss (same company we’ve been moved around) has passed along an email with some links to check out from our new CIO (who’s trying to help support the mission as well).
I’m not sure how many of these I’ve already seen (I know I have seen some), but instead of just forwarding the email to myself at home, I figured I’d post them here so anyone can check them out, I’ll probably add to the list later.
- http://www.packtpub.com/2007-open-source-cms-award-finalists
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/pirillo-starts-large-scale-community-cms-project/
- http://www.modxcms.com/
- http://www.alfresco.com/
- http://www.silverstripe.com/
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/silverstripe_open_source_cms_google_summer_of_code.php
- http://textpattern.com/
- http://drupaltutorials.com/books/why-drupal
- http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lastnode/Wordpress_CMS
- http://mambo-foundation.org/
- http://www.idatatechnologies.com/SEO_Friendly-Content-Management-CMS.htm
- http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
- http://drupal.org/
- http://www.joomla.org
- http://www.hotbanana.com/
- http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/164-WCM-Marketplace