2014/UK/indie-cms

 CMS  was a session at IndieWebCamp UK 2014.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indiewebcamp-cms

When: 2014-09-06 12:20

Hashtag: #CMS

Roll your own?

 * Hard!
 * Requires maintenance
 * often happens because current tools don't do what you want
 * Customization
 * Learn stuff?
 * Ops Overhead

From group, six people had rolled their own, a few ruby and PHP, mentions of C#, Node, Python and Go.

Data Storage

 * Databases
 * Each system uses their own format
 * You have to write Exporter / Importer
 * "Bro, do you even backup?"


 * HTML
 * Much harder to lose / corrupt
 * Viewable in the browser

Off the shelf

 * Lock in?
 * Easy mode
 * Tested
 * possibly crufty

Frameworks
Ones that people at talk had used:


 * Django CMS (Python)
 * Drupal (PHP)
 * Wordpress (PHP)
 * Kirby (PHP)
 * MUDX (PHP)
 * Expression Engine (PHP)
 * Craft (PHP)
 * TYPO3 (PHP)
 * Ghost (Node)
 * Jekyll (Ruby)
 * Hoisted (PHP)
 * Perch (PHP)
 * Docpad (PHP)

Interesting

 * Known