Just found this. Useful for small sites that only need a little customization by clients.
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June 01, 2009 1:19pm
Subscribe [7]#1 / Jun 01, 2009 1:19pm
Just found this. Useful for small sites that only need a little customization by clients.
#2 / Jun 02, 2009 9:40am
We have been watching this for a while waiting for its launch. No demo - but the video shows it’s quite good and the feature pages explain a good amount. Might give this a go at some point.
#3 / Jun 03, 2009 7:17am
I didn’t understand the difference between Perch (£35+VAT) & FREE Textpattern or, for example, free DBlog.
#4 / Jun 03, 2009 2:13pm
These seem to be popping up quite regularly in recent years. They’re mini-CMS apps of dubious worth, interesting perhaps, but not much more than an exercise in futility, and certainly not much to base a business. Most of them have nominal (if any) support, less than modest capabilities (even WordPress looks polished and sophisticated compared to most), and, once you dink around inside, missing a lot of parts that we take for granted in EE.
#5 / Jun 03, 2009 2:16pm
I didn’t understand the difference between Perch (£35+VAT) & FREE Textpattern or, for example, free DBlog.
The use case for Perch, it seems, is to take an existing site and add a few changeable items. Not nearly as full featured as EE, of course, but if I had a small site and I needed to have just a few updateable sections, I might use Perch.
#6 / Jun 04, 2009 4:52am
Also worth a look is http://www.madebyfrog.com/ which is a PHP version of http://radiantcms.org/
#7 / Jun 04, 2009 11:11am
no doubt there is a place for very small and limited systems like this. I would guess that the market for these is larger than the market for fancy CMS. Most small businesses and sites just don’t need the vast capabilities of EE. They also don’t need the learning curves.
In fact, that is probably a good future marketing strategy for a product like EE. A $10 or $25 version with capability to do limited sites easily, with an upgrade path might get some folks into the fray over the long run. As a for instance, you could limit it to one forum and “x” members, etc. etc.
#8 / Jun 04, 2009 12:29pm
no doubt there is a place for very small and limited systems like this. I would guess that the market for these is larger than the market for fancy CMS. Most small businesses and sites just don’t need the vast capabilities of EE. They also don’t need the learning curves.
In fact, that is probably a good future marketing strategy for a product like EE. A $10 or $25 version with capability to do limited sites easily, with an upgrade path might get some folks into the fray over the long run. As a for instance, you could limit it to one forum and “x” members, etc. etc.
This is really a good point, I have tested EE on my non-techie friends (ranging from artists to insurance agents 30-50 yrs) and their first reactions were ‘ummm…hmm..so how do I make a page?’. Even WP caused them to twitch although the ajaxed gui and buitin editor helped alleviate some of the fear.
Symphony looks pretty cool for some quick & dirty work.