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Originally posted by Nightwork
AcidMax,
At the moment we're making an inventory of the functionality wishes and planning our future infrastructure. We probably will develop it part in-house, part outsourced, but if there's a decent system on the market which meets my programming standards I surely will consider the option.
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Now that was more of a streamlined and more precise answer. My point that I was making is that you cannot judge a software product over a typo on the website. I am a single individual that has put a lot of time into my content management system (SiteMan). The CMS does use a database abstracton layer, that will work with most if not all of the popular database types out there. My CMS is written using classes and was originally written approx. 2 years ago (much has changed since then which is why I am also doing a complete re-write to take advantage of new features in php and database types). It is all written so that you can use templates as well and integrate multiple sites into the same CMS all while using the same content, without duplication.
You can manage the content that goes on each site, the date the content should be displayed, the niche it belongs to, the site it should be displayed on, the models associated with the content etc. You can even create what I call a "status" that you can manage to break your content down even further. Lets say you have an amateur niche site but want to have a bonus & exclusive section along with your normal site. You can create an exclusive and bonus status and break the niche content down even further. These are just the features in our current release, there is actually a lot more like link management, story management, news management etc., that has also been in the original release. Not to mention you can queue an unlimited number of updates for future release on all your sites. You could actually queue 5 years worth of updates and never touch the sites again.
This software has been used on some descent sized sites, and I must say that being that I am only 1 person who programmed the CMS and not a large company, just the shear fact that people know about the software on this board and promote it and give it kudos is a big pat on the back for me.
When someone however comes along and says basically that your software is shit because of a typo on a website, its not going to be taken lightly.
That being said each persons requirements for a CMS are a little different. The nice thing about SiteMan is that it can be customized and expanded on to fit most if not all of the needs of the paysites out there.
The new version will have many more features, while some might be removed because they were never used, others will be added on to and expanded upon.
Andy