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NACFCMS (Not Another CF CMS)

Posted At : May 21, 2008 6:44 AM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: CFML,Coldfusion,Open Source,Software

It seems to me that this year is the Year of open source CF CMS's. Ben Forta recently made us aware of ColdBricks open source CF CMS, and now I have stumbled upon Sava CMS. I think it's a great sign to see all of these open source CFM projects coming out, especially in the crowded CMS market.

One thing that surprises me most in a lot of these CMS offerings is the complete lack of internationalization. I realize that a lot of the offerings are coming from companies based in the USA and that the USA is officially a single language Country. BUT, if you look at most of the official governmental websites such as http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ or http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/index.jsp you will notice that they offer their sites in multiple languages.

It seems to me that internationalization or multi-lingual CMS's is what separates the "men" from the "boys", or closed source and free open source.

When I say internationalization or mulit-lingual I don't simply mean providing language packs, I am talking about providing the work flow capabilities to publish content in multiple languages. One closed source CMS that has a multi-lingual capable CMS is ShadoCMS. But again closed source not open source.

I'm not sure but I think the only open source Coldfusion CMS that has support for multi-lingual sites is FarcryCMS. Are there any others out there that I just don't know about?

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Nitai's Gravatar Look out for Razuna, really really soon. It is our port of our best selling Digital Asset Management with Web Content Management (we are porting it to support Open BlueDragon right now).

Once we get out of coding we will publish the website at http://www.razuna.com, but for now you can keep an eye on http://blog.sixsigns.com.
# Posted By Nitai | 5/21/08 10:22 AM
jeff's Gravatar Hmm...I've been trying to decide on a CMS in recent weeks for a couple of small websites and, frankly, I've been completely overwhelmed by FarCry. I know, I know, it's the most powerful thing in the world, but I'm finding the learning curve steeper than Everest.

Anyway, has anybody actually used Sava? Their website is very polished with a great deal of help/support material. Anybody know what I lose if I try Sava vs. plodding onward with FarCry.
# Posted By jeff | 5/22/08 1:13 AM
Phil Duba's Gravatar I think FarCry has internationalization for the administration interface and support for content creation in languages other than English but not necessarily the rendering of pages in the language chosen. I could be wrong on that though.
# Posted By Phil Duba | 5/22/08 1:33 PM
Jeff G's Gravatar I came across Sava a week or so ago and have been playing with it for a project I am working on. The install was easy and the environment is straight forward.
The documentation is not bad although they are still working on it.
They are very responsive to questions and I admittedly asked some silly ones.
It loads a default site to give you a few clues to get started. There is even a Fusebox sample sub application in the default site.
I have worked with FarCry, looked at ColdBricks [also interesting] and several other CMS apps in recent weeks. I can say this one is lighter, easier, extensible, versatile and well worth a close look.
And no I am not connected with them. I just think they deserve a pat on the back and a hardy hey look at that .
# Posted By Jeff G | 5/22/08 8:57 PM
grant's Gravatar farcry...never again. The last farcy sife we developed we had to abandon v4 because of the massively buggy ajax, and then spent 40-50% of the dev time bug-fixing v3 code just to get basic functionality...even their v4 codebase had the bugs, and they had just announced v5.

In contrast, with excellent docs and support, we finished a fairly substantial client site in 2 weeks having never used sava before. I don't know coldbricks, but sava gets my recommendation for at least a got to try (their demo is a dream)
# Posted By grant | 6/15/08 3:40 PM
Rthompson's Gravatar Grant,

Thanks for the kind words about Sava. I'm really glad to hear that your experience went well. We're currently looking for real-world examples of completed projects in Sava. So, if you wouldn't mind sharing you can do so on our blog at http://www.gosava.com/go/sava/blog/share-your-proj...

Take care.

-Ryan
# Posted By Rthompson | 6/19/08 10:52 AM
Abhijeet's Gravatar Nitai, I think razuna is in action already. I would like to check it out how it works - almost same thing I and my colleague were checking out.
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# Posted By Abhijeet | 7/10/08 9:59 PM
Nitai Aventaggiato's Gravatar @Abhijeet

If all goes well, we will release Razuna this weekend. Check out http://www.razuna.com and our blog for more information.
# Posted By Nitai Aventaggiato | 7/11/08 3:51 AM
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