Microsoft being evil and a CMS being very, very good.

18.03.2010

So have you faced this aggravating situation, and, if so, how did you correct it?

My other interest this week is content management. I still owe you a review of the content management system (CMS) published by Interactive Tools, which I briefly a few weeks ago. I will make good on that promise in a few weeks but until then I have another CMS that bears a serious look -- a free, open source, PHP-based product called .

Installation is impressively easy. I installed the system on the Synology DiskStation a few weeks ago and, other than providing basic details, ocPortal installed without any trouble (note that if you are on an internal network and you aren't running an internal DNS server that identifies internal machines by a domain name you need to enter the ocPortal's IP address as the server name).

OcPortal is best thought of as a structured CMS. It implements a portal-style page construction although you can easily ignore this and create more normal site architectures.

OcPortal also supports just about all the types of content you might need: Page banners, search engine optimization, newsletters and mail campaigns, subscriptions, e-commerce, user support -- the is huge.