What's the best method for creating a coldfusion CMS?

[chromis]

Hi,

I've been creating cms' manually for a while now, creating the database, the forms and the validation etc. I was wondering though, is there a better way of doing it? Is there an out the box system or method which would speed up the process?

How do you create your cms'?

Thanks,

chromis

[acoder]

There are actually plenty of CMSs written in Coldfusion, many free and open source. Here's a pretty good list of all types including commercial and an open source list.

What would be best for you would depend on your requirements. FarCry seems to be a popular one as does Sava.

[chromis]

Thanks Acoder, i'll take a look at those. Do you use any of them?

[acoder]

I'm afraid I don't. Even if I did, I wouldn't be able to recommend any because some may be too complex and some too simple for what you need. How many users would you have, and is it for a real live system or more for learning purposes?

[chromis]

Ok no worries. I guess what I'm trying to find out is when an out the box content management system is a good idea or not.
I've a couple of web projects coming up which will require content management systems. The client wants to be able to edit almost every aspect of the website. The website will be around 20-30 pages in size. I've seen systems like Drupal and Joomla which I think are PHP based and they seem to be useful when you have a ALOT of content. Would you say that one of these CMS' would be more useful when the users of the system will be adding a whole load of data and creating their own pages?
To be honest now you've shown me those CMS' which i wasn't aware of before I could probably answer these questions myself in time, but if you have any useful tips they'd be most welcome.

[acoder]

I would think that an out-of-the-box system will be useful here because it'll be robust and will have dealt with many of the common problems. If the project is mature, many of the bugs will have been fixed (hopefully) and it should have a large user base which often helps. It should also have a lot of features, but that may not be required. You could also find different versions of the same CMS. Hope that helps. Let us know how you get along.

[chromis]

Ok thank's for that I'll look into using one of those CMS's, it'll be a good learning experience if nothing else.