[LRUG] Though on CMSs

[Graham Ashton]

Erin - I was going to recommend Slices in my reply, but when I went to check the web site (slices.withassociates.com) I didn’t realise you’d open sourced it. Fantastic news!

Ed - Slices is excellent; ideal if you want to hand an admin UI to the site’s editors.

On 4 Nov 2014, at 18:30, Erin Staniland <erin at withassociates.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
>> However, if you have a site, you must have some system for managing its
>> content, so it becomes a debate about using existing solutions vs rolling
>> your own. The main things I'd like to know are:
> 
> 1. Do you use a CMS?
> Yes, Slices - https://github.com/withassociates/slices/
> 
> 2. Is it custom built or off-the-shelf?
> It's custom built by us.
> 
> 3. Do you use the same CMS for many projects, or are they project-specific?
> The same CMS (Slices), it's easy to customise if needed.
> 
> 4. If you do use publicly-available CMSs, which ones, and would you
> recommend them?
> We only use Slices...
> 
> 5. Any other comments/experiences etc
> 
> It's aimed at non-technical end-users, the CMS gives them a pallet of
> "content types" or slices which allows them to create complex page
> layouts without having to know any HTML or use a WYSIWYG editor. The
> slices themselves are simple enough to be built by a front-end
> developer.
> 
> Slices is a Rails Engine and tries to keep out of the way so that you
> can use it in projects which don't just need a CMS.
> 
> Best
> Erin
> 
> 
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> Erin Staniland
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> On 3 November 2014 20:40, Ed Lepedus <ed.lepedus at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Evening LRUG,
>> 
>> As the title suggests, I was wondering what your thoughts were regarding
>> CMSs, and on content management strategies in general. Having spent some
>> time with Wordpress and Drupal in the past, I find myself somewhat
>> prejudiced against them.
>> 
>> However, if you have a site, you must have some system for managing its
>> content, so it becomes a debate about using existing solutions vs rolling
>> your own. The main things I'd like to know are:
>> 
>> Do you use a CMS?
>> Is it custom built or off-the-shelf?
>> Do you use the same CMS for many projects, or are they project-specific?
>> If you do use publicly-available CMSs, which ones, and would you recommend
>> them?
>> Any other comments/experiences etc
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ed Lepedus
>> 
>> 
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