EZPublish CMS – One More Time
Ruslan Zasukhin, VP of Engineering at Paradigma Software has warned me many times against having a zoo of CMS, but we are giving EZPublish a run on a new iteration of a website. Three ongoing annoyances I have had with content management systems are -
- More CMS Framework than System. The system itself is powerful and offers some unique and useful features, but its more framework than a usable system – not very much thought is put into the operational interfaces for various types of users.
- Too Much Emphasis on the Developer. Anything much more than entering text is only accessible through inserting code (PHP, Python, whatever).
- Poor Reference Documentation. This usually goes hand-in-hand with the first two issues, because the system is only really being used by developers and not end users. For example, EZPublish does not allow you to simply use common HTML tags in articles – but there doesn’t seem to be a consolidated list of EZPublish tags.
What attracted me to EZPublish is its powerful versioning system and handling of multiple languages.
