CMS Design Resource » Lite CMS http://www.cmsdesignresource.com Resources & inspiration for designers who use content management systems Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Frog CMS http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/cms-list/frog-cms/ http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/cms-list/frog-cms/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:59:34 +0000 CMS Design Resource http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/?p=16 Current Version: 0.9.5 
Cost: Free
Development: Community
Specialization: Lite CMS
Hosting: Own Server
Source: Open Source
License: GNU Affero GPL
Programming: PHP
Database: MySQL

Our Impressions:

Frog’s strength is in its simplicity. As soon as you log in you’re brought to the page listing, pages can be in any kind of hierarchy and they’re super easy to reorder and move. “Snippets” are little blocks that can be dropped anywhere in the website you need and give the system its flexibility. It has a small but active community that answers questions quickly and helpfully.

Frog’s development team lately has been mostly absent lately. Use a fork of Frog CMS called Wolf CMS.

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Development: Commercial
Specialization: Lite CMS
Hosting: Own Server, Service
Source: Closed Source
License: Custom

Our Experience:

If you don’t want to take the time to figure out all of the mumbo-jumbo of all the other CMS’s (such as installing software, creating databases, learning their tags, etc.)  this is the CMS for you. (It took us about 10 minutes to convert a site for Cushy to use) It is extremely client friendly, and easy to figure out for simple, static websites. It can handle a few various types of content including headlines, text, images, and code.

That’s about it though. If you’re looking for anything more dynamic, or more complicated then this probably isn’t for you.

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Cost: Free
Development: Community Driven
Specialization: Lite CMS
Hosting: Own Server
Source: Open Source
License: MIT License
Language: Ruby on Rails
Database: MySQL

Our Impressions:

Radiant is quite simple and elegant in its concept and interface. Any user, no matter how computer literate, immediately understands how to create new pages and edit them. As soon as you log in you’re brought to a hierarchical listing of pages. Snippets allow you the flexibility to create sidebars and menus that would be repetitive other wise. Layouts help you to manage you templates.

Radiant is only meant to do so much. If you’re trying to build a complicated site with a lot of pages, this is not the answer. You also have to be willing/ready to figure out how to install Ruby on Rails applications, which is quite different than the normal PHP installation.

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