While getting the ReCaptcha stuff to work was taking a look at available plugins… Came across this cool posting about useless CMSs. Which I totally agree with! It’s of course references docs from back in 2004…
Still thinking about the core premise of this:
- Object Oriented — ok I’m a geek — Zend Framework and some good thoughts…
- Easily Styled — WordPress has shown how users will devote time to presentation.
- Plugins for Authentication — why not it’s CMS — I’m not the authority on user manement.
- Easy content editing — have been now playing with Windows Live Writer — it’s the easy way to enter content… Or at least shows how desktop apps and web sites can easily integrate.
- Document Managment — Why does wordpress make a distinction between "Page" and "Post" — they’re really the same.
- Also needed is document type
- Todo List
- Calendar
- etc.
- Also needed is document type
- Files (attachments) should be attached to any post (re-used if needed).
- partials, snippets — content blobs that can be attached anywhere… Think plugin.
Let’s think about this for a second, documents need to be accessed via three mechanisms:
- Time Order — blog style [recent changes or recent published]
- Heirarcy — section/article/page or whatever … breadcrumbs…
- Cloud — tags, similarity, category, etc.
Most of the time I just want to tag an article and have it added to a cloud…
It shouldn’t stop presentation like: