I need an off the shelf, fully featured, web-based CMS to integrate into a client's site I am building. Must be easy to setup & install, be Microsoft-friendly and cost no more than 20k.

I don't want a hosted solution as my client will host it, and I don't want a solution where the company build you a bespoke system from scratch, I just want an 'out-the-box' solution that I can *cough* pretend I created. Also would help if you don't have to be a programming god to set it up ;-)

Anyone know of anything like this please??

 

Postnuke any good ? It's free....

 

Bricolage, free and well, well used by many, one of the best.

 

I spent a good amount of time looking at the free ones (postnuke and derivatives, ariadne, typocms, too many others) and ended up spending fifty bucks on Author CMS.

 

Sounds like mutually exclusive criteria to me!

Have you looked at Microsoft Sharepoint?

 

Sj,

Have you tried downloading it from the M$ web site? been on there 20mins trying to get SP team services and can I find the download? Can I heck!!! Can get the SDK, Themes and the like, it says you download it from the frontpage site but when you go there, there is no mention of it. Great site design M$!!!

Gary

 

Thats the main problem with it

but well worth the perseverence imho

 

SJ,

From what I have now gathered it looks like sharepoint team services is part of frontpage 2002, is that right?

Cheers

Gary

 

First saw it on the Office 2002 pro CD, thought "ooo that looks like fun" installed it and now have a shed load of business apps running off the back of it

 

Sj,

Last question I promise! Does it have any basic contact management funtionality? Just need a simple contact history for logging inbound/outbound calls, dont want a full blown crm system.

cheers

Gary

 

The built in task listing sounds like it is an 80/20 match for you:

(quick copy and paste of the default fields)

Title:
Status:
Priority:
% Complete:
Assigned To:
Description:
Start Date:
Due Date:


Then of course you can always customise the fields or create a custom list


Happy to help

 

Cheers mate, think I will have a closer look at that.

 

www.intrasuite.co.uk but it's bespoke...

 

And the site is in swedish