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Originally Posted by quantum-x
Ditch AWW / AWiz.
I've only looked over MAS, I haven't had to develop on it so far, but I would have to say the superior product at the moment is CARMA, for the following reason.
Templates are powered by SMARTY. This means you have FULL control over your templates, and total seperation from any coding hassles. It means you can make your sites look exactly like you want, and do whatever you want. The plugins component means that you can process any of the data coming from CARMA to do exactly what you want. I've written sites for WAP in CARMA, full content rotation etc etc, advanced authentication modules for our webcam systems, embedded video plugins, the works.
I come from a purely technical side, so you might not be looking for these features.
Apart from auto-thumbnailing, video screencap galleries, I believe the new version can convert your videos to flash automagically as well.
Depending on your traffic, you can loadbalance your sites out of CARMA with no troubles.
Again, I've only had a chance to develop seriously on CARMA, but I was looknig over MAS last night, and their templating system doesnt seem to compare just yet, or their pages are slightly out of date.
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Many of the customers who came to Mansion choosing MAS were not feeling comfortable with the Smarty template engine used by many other CMS. They find the MAS template system easier to work with, more understandable without any technical knowledge, allowing for WYSIWYG editing of templates in Dreamweaver etc. The MAS templating system is much more than simple replacement of a few tags, there are options for conditional statements, "subtemplates", included (shared) sections and many more. So, again you have full control over the templates, but with achieved through a different approach than Smarty.
And I have to admit that the MAS promo pages are slightly out of date, although the system is in constant impovement. We will have a new major release very soon, which will be updated on the site as well.
SpyCam - MAS could do everything you mentioned here and more. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
BTW - here's another similar thread from a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=724908