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Hey guys,

I was turned onto Joomla!, xoops, and Dolphin by friends for Open Source CMS. I was wondering if anyone has used these and had some feedback or maybe actually recommend a whole different CMS? It has to be Open Source though.

So if you used a Open Source Content Management System before, please give your feedback and experience!

Mainly, I just want one that works well in giving group specific access, working along with phpBB3, and very customizable templates. One that could have a Point System and manage Download access to files on site would be awesome too!

Thanks in advance!

- Jason H.

The Best CMS is basically going to be all about perspective and what it actually is you are trying to achieve. I like Joomla because it has a huge community and always has templates and lots of ad-dons.

I would like to work with my home page’s design. There is a page which introduce the downloadable software. On that page, There are some several table content like Download Name, Images of App., Date of Posting, Download Area, Voting. etc..
This could make me spend so much time to edit the table one by one to post every new software.

I would like to ask if there is any web based software to post all that I need easily. What is that? How can I get it?

Thank you and waiting for all help.
Bun Narith

I use open source CMS programs all the time!!!!!!
Look at the link below and it will give you over 20 different programs to fit your need!

Does anyone know of any software that I can install (on my website) that is both a CMS and a forum? I want to be able to have forums but also be able to make pages that look the same.

Also, if you have any ideas about how I could maybe embed forums into something, that would be great.

Thanks!

Apparently Mambo has a good forum plugin.

You’re going to need to choose one of the following options:
1) A CMS with forum plugin. The forum will probably be quite simple.
2) A Forum with CMS plugin – The CMS will be less powerful and may be awkward to use.
3) Use a CMS system and find tutorials on how to integrate it with a dedicated forum app. (E.g. Mambo and phpBB)

You’re much better off asking this in a dedicated development forum such as http://www.devshed.com

You *are* facing a difficult decision, it takes time to investigate the options, but more information would be helpful because there are so many subtle points about these applications it’s difficult to know what’s best until you try. So the simplest route to experiment is free open source packages for 1) and 2) above. 3) Will be a bit more complicated and might need a bit of programming, but done well should give you the best of both worlds.

You didn’t say if / how much you want to spend so I’ve just talked about the free options

Something that’s high quality but low cost (an individual should be able to afford it).
Not open source, but something between shareware and commercial grade.

You shouldn’t look down on open source offerings. There are quite a number of good ones around, such as Drupal.

See the Free Content Management Systems page for a list of some:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/contentmanagement.shtml

Commercial, freeware, open source… what are the five most popular? Is there anywhere I can get a list of CMSs arranged according to the number of users?
According to google trends Joomla! is the most searched for CMS.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2C+mambo%2C+drupal%2C+wordpress%2C+phpnuke

I need the number of users for each of the popular CMSs and also the usage trends. Possible?

yes joomla is best

I kindly ask your help in answering few questions regarding how to create and publish article in Wikipedia:

1. how to create article, is there any kind of templates to create its content structure or something (I have account in wikipedia)? I have noticed that some of published articles maintain pictures or some sort of structure (not just simple text adding), pls look at:

2. in addition, how to manage that article will be easy searchable by other users? My article is about “enterprise content management” and i would like that it could be searchable within several options, for example typing “enterprise content management,” or “human resource management”, or “contract management”, etc. Is it possible with Wikipedia?

3. concerning security, can we restrict access to edit published info by other users?

Thank you very much for your help

I suggest you start at the "your first article" help page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article which explains what you should know before creating your first Wikipedia article.

There are no general article templates as such, but some individual WikiProjects do suggest a structure. Look at the manual of style at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MOS or see if there is a WikiProject on the topic you want to write about with more specific guidelines. There’s a list of them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject

To add an image, you upload it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload or go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Special:Upload to upload freely licensed images that can then be used on all Wikimedia projects. You add the image to the article by typing [[Image:Name.jpg|thumb|Caption]]. See the tutorial at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial for more help.

The search index updates automatically, though not always immediately, so your article will be searchable. The best way to make sure people can find it is to link to it from other articles. You can also add redirects from alternative titles. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect for help.

Make sure you search for existing articles on a topic before starting a new page. There are already articles on the topic you mentioned. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management .

You can’t restrict the editing of other people at Wikipedia, except temporarily in cases of severe vandalism.

I am planning to have a website built for a new business idea I have developed and would like to know what a good Content Management System (CMS) should contain?

Check Joomla, Drupal,Vbulletin

I’ve had an mri done about 2 years ago regardings about my vertigo and migraines problems and the results was normal so it was the migraines was causing the diziness vertigo and i was wondering should i need to do an repeat imaging of a Cat Scan or an MRI ? What do you think ? I started to have problems again and it lasted 1 month.

Unless you have recently sustained any head trauma, and the last one was normal, chances are that getting the test done again will reveal nothing. You can always request this be done if you are worried or the symptoms you are experiencing are worse than previously experienced. But there are several reasons that could be causing your migraines, such as hormones, food, flashing lights, stress, etc. If the scan comes back normal you should see a doctor that specializes in migraines, either a neurologist or pain management doctor. The key to migraines is to prevent them as best you can, either by avoidance of triggers or with medication, if necessary. A good migraine specialist will be able to get you onto a regimen that will work for you to decrease the frequency and severity of migraines, and also get you an appropriate abortive medication for when you get one.

You can try Mambo (http://www.mamboforge.com). Is is now called Joomla. This is a PHP/MySQL program. If you know how to configure windows to run PHP you can use it.

You’ll need the following:

Apache MSI installer for windows (At Apache website)
PHP Installer for windows (At php.org)
MySQL Installer for windows (at mysql.org)

You’ll also need PHPMyAdmin to create a database. Before you run this, configure windows to run PHP.

You can search Google for "configuring php with apache for windows" and it will throw up relevant information.

Hope this helps.

I have just scanned a book with "Microsoft scanner and camera wizard"when i saved my scanned book,it automatically opened it in" Microsoft Office Document Imaging"and i can not get a print from this type,however there is a print option there,even my printer counts the page numbers but it gives the failure message after this.
i couldn’t open it with other applications which i knew such as word or,…
I even tried to copy both all pages and single page but i got the same error.
what should i do?
I just know that my printer works fine,i couldnt find anything related to this problem in my printer’s options and properties.
So how can one get a print from such type of file?
(i.e Microsoft Office Document Imaging)

My printer is a hp laser jet 1200 series.

Open the document as normal, goto FILE, select SAVE AS. The SAVE AS dialog box will appear. Right at the bottem change SAVE AS TYPE to TAGGED IMAGE FILE FORMAT (TIFF). click the options button and click the COMPRESSION tab, if it isn’t already on that tab. Mark the checkbox PERFORM LOSSLESS COMPRESSION… OK and then SAVE.

Goto where ever you save the tiff document, right click on it and SELECT OPEN WITH > WINDOWS PICTURE AND FAX VIEWER.

Whenit opens you can press the printer icon, Click NEXT, check Combo boxes of the pages you want to print, and the NEXT. Select your printer. change PRINTING PREFERENCES if you want(make sure the page size is set to A4). Click NEXT. Select full page fax or photo print and then click NEXT.

See if that helps. If it doesn’t then post a comment, with an error message if it appears. I used my Canon to print a document using the instruction I gave you above, and it worked fine.