Website Content Management

General Discussions
#1

I’m about to go round the loop of creating a game website again. I’m loving the Retro Pixel Castles one, has anyone got recommendations on what to use as the CMS for something similar?

I can see IP.Board at the bottom for the forums, wondering if the whole thing is done in that?

Or custom grow one? Or Wordpress? Or something else?

Cheers,

Kev

#2

In particular, I want 9 patch support in a template.

Cheers,

Kev

#3

IMO Wordpress or Drupal are probably the quickest, most flexible and future proof ways to go.

#4

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Choose the right tool for the task! :wink:

Drupal isn’t the quickest way to get up and running - it IMO rightly positions itself as a content management platform If you want the flexibility choose Drupal (I spend half my life at the moment developing with it), but if you need something quick and easy to run OOTB, choose WordPress.

Or any of numerous other options, just don’t roll your own! ;D

#5

What major features do you consider make it worthwhile to choose wordpress or drupal over a roll-your-own solution?

I find wordpress and php harder to learn than servlets and jquery so I opted for a self-rolled solution. However I have a problem that there’s precious few open source java forum software projects on offer. The best I could find was jforum2 (https://code.google.com/p/jforum2/).

Cheers

#6

Both are really nice platforms in my opinion.

It really depends on how fast you want to set something up. For something quick you can get up in a weekend, I would take a look at WordPress. For anything else I’d look into Drupal.

As for writing your own… I’d rather not re-invent the wheel.

  • Jev
#7

Its really a good 9-patch based template for site, blog and forum I guess I’m looking for.

Kev

#8

I also see that ImpressPages is coming with new features recently. However it’s too young and doesn’t have good free templates and plugins. Other than those small quirks, it’s pretty nice platform to work with.

#9

Yeah, RPC’s site is 100% done in IPB, but all the non-forum pages use IP.Content (cost extra). IP.Content lets you basically make custom pages with (or without, if you want) the forum wrapper. But IP.Board + IP.Content is a bit pricy :smiley: