DIY web pages

[goodhead]

We are looking for an open source content management system for our external web site.

 

Our host only supports asp.

 

It needs to be quite easy to setup as i dont have any knowledge of asp.

 

Any reccomendations???

[beeswax]

Try this link. I don't know if it contains any .asp systems though. Does your host provide any .asp cms systems?

[ChrisC]

this seems pretty good, easy to set up too!

 

http://www.aspcontentmanagement.com/

 

Chris

[goodhead]

Try this link. I don't know if it contains any .asp systems though. Does your host provide any .asp cms systems?

 

No they dont. our host is Herefordshire council.

[plexer]

ASP content management as posted by Chris is very very basic.

 

I use it for our Intranet but I'm now looking at moving towards a wikimedia install for that.

 

I wouldn't recommend it for an external website.

 

Ben

[goodhead]

we have looked at plone. its good for an intranet. is no good externally in our case.

[Norphy]

What about DotNetNuke?

 

I've played with it, it was a bugger to set up but pretty good once I got it going. It does need SQL though.

[lalalalalalalalalalala]

Thought about switching host? If you go for a host with something like cpanel then you get loads of bundled cms software.

 

You can get some very cheap hosting these days.

[webman]

If you do end up using PHP/MySQL I recommend Website Baker, it's really good.

[lalalalalalalalalalala]

from experience you can't do that much with asp but you might want to look into 4D databasing but it is very expensive. I think thats the best way to control asp from what I know.

 

PHP/mySQL is far better way, there is lots of software that you can use with that. If you switch to a cpanel host you usually get fantastico deluxe, which seems to be the best.

 

Check out http://www.telekinetix.com for asp questions, they do asp stuff.

[kxv2020]

If you do go with MySQL/PHP then Joomla is extremley easy and powerful!

[maniac]

I use joomla (or mambo which I believe is a variation on joomla) for our intranet on a PHP/mySQL environment. I've also used PHP nuke in the past, both are easy to set up and have a range of different features. You can also get a very wide range of plugins for either to offer you all sorts of different options and addons. Either could be easily used for an external website.

 

Infact many people think our intranet has a more professional look and feel than our website which was done by an outside company (boy were we ripped off there, but that's another story!)

 

You can get good systems that run on ASP, but more people seem to be developing for PHP, possibly because it's easier and more widely used. there's lots of ASP content management systems which allow you to build sites quickly and easily listed Here

 

Mike

[webman]

ASP only runs on IIS so is therefore, by default, slower than PHP on *nix.

[eean]

we have looked at plone. its good for an intranet. is no good externally in our case.

 

Pale Purple do Plone hosting from £120 per year we use them and so far so good. Plone is really good - after setup everything can be done through the front end and it is easy to set up permissions on different sections of the site.

It's just a shame its so beefy there are only 2 places in the UK that will host it and the other one costs £700 per year!