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Paul Keith:
I'm no programmer and I haven't used any CMS but your design ideas seems to be a Ning on steroids ala:

http://www.ning.com/

http://www.socialgo.com/

http://www.mixxt.com/

The biggest problem I can see with that is that it might not be "blog" enough. (No post to e-mail like Posterous, no tags for articles, too much clutter to make the article be the focus)
and still not be CMS enough. (supports template but you're still restricted to a lack of choice outside of default, more flexible but still doesn't focus on content management.)

app103:
I'm no programmer and I haven't used any CMS but your design ideas seems to be a Ning on steroids ala:

http://www.ning.com/

http://www.socialgo.com/

http://www.mixxt.com/


-Paul Keith (September 22, 2009, 09:47 PM)
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I think that is probably as far away from what he is talking about as you can get. That's for social networking, not e-commerce. Quite unsuitable for anyone that wants to set up a website to showcase and sell their products.

Paul Keith:
No, alot of those sites are used for e-commerce.

See:

http://onlinedivas.ning.com/

and

http://homebasedbusinessprogram.ning.com/

as examples.

They support a bare bones implementation of blogging. Mixxt supports a singular wiki. It allows for photos. Videos. Forums.

The only thing not optimized are shopping carts but it's still possible ala this site:

http://www.cafepress.com/dragfools

Which I got from this site: http://developer.ning.com/forum/topics/1185512:Topic:61562

app103:
That works if what you are publishing is conceptually a blog. It may be a serious and well-designed news site, but it's still a blog by heart. (Apparently most of my favorites run on Drupal, and there are some great-looking ones based on WordPress.) Recognize them by the URLs like www.site.com/2009/9/23/why-things-suck-the-way-they-are. That's a blog.
-tranglos (September 22, 2009, 06:26 PM)
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Wordpress doesn't do that by default. The site owner has to set it that way. All my pages in my book directory do not indicate anything hinting at the date in which they were posted. Not in the url or on the pages themselves. This is something I didn't want, so I never changed it from the default and I don't have any code in my template to insert the date onto the pages themselves. (my template didn't come with it and if it did I would have ripped it out)

Wordpress gives you choice for how URLs look:

Idea: A content management system that lives up to the name

superboyac:
True, app.  You can have the link addresses however you want.  But it doesn't change the fact that wordpress is fundamentally structered around a chronological system.  And to do otherwise means you have utilize a lot of tweaks and workarounds that essentially fight against the nature of wordpress (e.g. using static pages as your main content vs. using posts).  So while wordpress is flexible enough where these things can be accomplished to some degree, it's not in the nature of the application.

And that's what tranglos is talking about (I think).  He's asking for a platform which is INTENDED for creating a website to organize a bunch of 'things' in a flexible, yet facilitated manner like wordpress does for blogs.  I'm onboard with the idea, in case you couldn't tell.

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