One for the web nerds really this.

Ive written a content management system used by a few hundred garages to control their websites, but its only a fairly basic system.

Now that it has worked as a proof of concept, we're keen to move onto something a little more sophisticated with regards to uploading images and stuff like that in a nice slick interface, but at the same time it needs to be something we get the source code for and on a licence that allows us to alter the code.

Written in Java would be ideal, but not essential.

Anyone got any recomendations based on something they have actually used?

Cost isnt too much of an issue, providing its only 5 figures or less so it doesnt have to be free or anything like that.

 

Send me a spec via PM. We integrate and write a lot of CMSs for a lot of clients.

Oddly enough we do loads of Car Garages.

 

Chip,

I use.... http://www.joomla.org/

 

I am afraid I cant do that, as its commercially sensitive, sorry.

 

Will take a look, thanks

 

Forgot to say...

Its free, open source and piss easy to use/modify.

 

I work for a small company wihich makes software for estate agents.

Ive written into our system (VB based) a programme to upload property images and details to websites such a findaproperty , rightmove, and the Agents own sites.

All pretty easy to do in VB

 

Call me and speak to me then.

Seriously, my company could help you in many ways. We work for companies such as DuPont, Audatex, BMS and BodyMaster.

We also have a product that we have developed and integrated into hundreds of bodyshops and there websites.

Your call.

 

Yeah Ive written plenty of them myself previously, but I wanted something that was generic, sorry I cant go into the reasons for that, but Im aware of how "easy" they are to right (If you call potentially a couple of hundred days of my time at a grand a day easy, lol)

 

holy moley that looks like a sensible timescale, first time I have seen one after 20 years in software development

 

Absolutely PMSL But sooooooooooooooooo true

 

LOL

Cue a load of people claiming they could do it in a week

 

Can't personally comment on it as I'm not a developer, but the project I'm on at the moment uses http://plone.org/

 

Exactamon

 

Will have a look at that too, thanks.

 

A large selection can be found at the following URL

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

 

Nice one Paul.

You still planning popping down to say hello tonight?
I'll be there by about 7 I expect.

 

Yea, Ill be coming down.. I get there about 7 then as well

 

 

CMS in Java (previous link mostly php)


http://java-source.net/open-source/c...agment-systems

http://www.alfresco.com/

 

http://www.ssiweb.co.uk/content-management-systems-15/

This any good mate ?

Its what we use at work for our content management, as far as i know it is only web based unlike Sunils VB based suggestion if that matters

Scott

 

Cheers for that Scott, its web based that it MUST be in this instance