CMS 2 of 24: Concrete5, Frog CMS, Indexhibit

concrete5

What is concrete5?

concrete5 makes running a website easy.

Go to any page in your site, and a editing toolbar gives you all the controls you need to update your website. No intimidating manuals, no complicated administration interfaces - just point and click.
What can I build with concrete5?

* Online magazines and newspapers.
* Government web sites.
* Small business web sites.
* Non-profit and organization web sites.
* Community-based portals.
* Church, club and team web sites.
* Personal or family homepages.
* Marketing focused sites for a corporation.
* Any school, college or university web site.
* Many online communities.
* Extranets and intranets.
* Anything else you can dream up!

Frog CMS

Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. The current stable version is 0.9.3, released 14 August 2008.

Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management.

Frog requires PHP5, a MySQL database or SQLite 3 with PDO, and a web server (Apache with mod_rewrite is highly recommended). It is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License. The source is available from Frog’s Google Code project page.

Frog is unique because of its simple templating code. Because it uses PHP directly, there is no need to learn yet another scripting language. This approach has two main advantages:

* Normally, PHP is not used in article pages, so it does not frighten the writer who does not want to learn it.
* The webmaster/designer of the site, the one who will code some basic condition or/and loop to add more dynamics to the website, generally knows some PHP already — at least enough to add some dynamic latest news part, latest articles, photo gallery, etc…