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OH wow. I wonder why they said 'content management'? That's a bit silly considering the script isn't managing all the content, as you say. It's not too steep to buy the license though. I think if it works out I might see if I can get the license for it. But I still have to test it out more.

That site is great Thomas! I think both Czarnews and CuteNews are great. I liked some of the features of CuteNews better but have downloaded both to test them out. What did CuteNews change in their license? I have also found many other scripts over at Hotscripts that I think I will use!

Thomas! Wow, I can't thank you enough for mentioning those scripts to me! Those are wonderful and really I think will do the trick for what I am looking to achieve. You have been so helpful.

In an attempt to clarify the basic type of site I am going for, please check out these sites: www. ellis-music .com/news/ www. grooveaddiction .net/news/ www. masqued .net/open/site.php?z=news www. thejulianatheory .com (minus the flash) www. sullivancares .com/ (I do like the embedded Flash music player in the Masthead on this one tho) It seems most of these sites employ some kind of CMS. What kind I still have yet to determine. Anyone have any ideas how this type of site is achieved?

Merci Steve!

Yeah, that is what I am seeing as I read more. I think I will abandon this idea. David, thank you so much for your help I don't wanna mess up the TCH servers or risk having to pull the site if it is indeed a resource hog. I think I will look for another option.

I've been playing with WordPress and I'm not sure that is the platform for me. Invision has a few products, but the cost is too much and again, not exactly what fits the bill from what I am reading. And I won't lie, it's DIY with no budget, so that is somehting I have to keep in mind for the design. On the low end of user features I would want to emulate something like this: www . adamaworld .com On the absolute 'I wish I could do this' end would be something like this: www . blackeyedpeas .com The BEP type site probably is not doable within my limited skill set and $0 budget, but what I love about it is: 1.) Navigation System: I really would like to find some kind of CMS that would allow me to use some kind of graphic (maybe not tabs per se, but some kind of rollover graphic) but then that had the subnavigation rollover type text like you see below the tabs. Ideally would like to include the graphic main navigation button within the masthead graphic and not have the main image masthead seperated from the navigation sytem. I am not sure if this is achieveable or not. 2.) Users Access: Users have to log in to see certain site features (I am assuming these are called 'modules'?) 3.) Photo Gallery: Integrated Photo gallery with users having the ability to upload images 4.) Message Board 5.) Chat I could probably scale things down somewhat and use some kind of CMS to deliver the "home" page content that has some kind of 'short version news' on it that goes to a more detailed article when a link is clicked (see www. adamaworld .com for an example). Then I could use a regular HTML design for the rest of the site and incorporate something like a Coppermine Gallery, PHP BB Board, Chat program (basically seperate parts to create the whole site). I don't mind doing that. I am just not sure how to strip down something like MT to make it work only on the home page and news page. There is another option, and that is something similar to what I see going on on this site: www. aswespeak .net/ www. aswespeak .net/news What I like about this site is that the design is stylish, nice and tight and the news section acts how I would like. Basically it has 5 recent news items listed, but there is an "Archive" with all older news postings. Is this still a Blog/CMS doing that? Or is it something else? The aesthetics of the design are really important with a music site in terms of marketing. It has to look really eye catching. Another thing that is important is the ability to DISABLE the 'comment' feature on the site. I don't want anyone but the site admin and approved users to be able to post any news or make comments. ...Yes and I would also like Rome served to me on a platter.... ha ha You know me... always with the ideas bigger than my skillset.... jump into the fire I say! LOL

I downloaded that today. Will maybe try it out and see what it's all about. How easy is it to skin? Any experience doing that?

I saw that as well. Hmmmm... Also tried changing all the directories as specified to 777 and still got these two errors: Warning * open_basedir o open_basedir is in use and can give problems running eZ publish due to bugs in some PHP versions. o It's recommended that it is turned off if you experience problems running eZ publish. 1. Insufficient directory permissions eZ publish cannot write to some important directories, without this the setup cannot finish and parts of eZ publish will fail. The affected directories are: settings settings/siteaccess/admin Shell commands These shell commands will give proper permission to the webserver. cd /home/mydomain/public_html/nbcms chmod -R ug+rwx settings settings/siteaccess/admin chown -R nobody:nobody settings settings/siteaccess/admin Alternative shell commands If you don't have permissions to change the ownership you can try these commands. cd /home/mydomain/public_html/nbcms chmod -R a+rwx settings settings/siteaccess/admin Even though I did chance the settings/siteaccess/admin to 777, it's still saying there are insufficient permissions. That is weird. The thing I like about eZPublish is that it seems easier to skin than other CMS's I have looved at. Any suggestions.

OK! Well then, I will give it a try. It's worth a shot for sure. I have to go to a session soon, but when I get back I will try it and let you know how I made out. Thanks for translating Greek for me BTW is it foggy today in SF?

On further reading, Typo3 looks incredibly difficult to skin and the documentation is very hard to follow. Argh!!!!!!

David, Are you generally saying that an install could be possible if I CHMOD 0775 or 0777 those listed directories? If that is so, then maybe I can get it to work.

Yes well the eye of this installer is seriously code deficient! LOL But I am willing to try and learn. What CMS scripts (to your knowledge) have been banned? The CMS packages I am now investigating are: WordPress Drupal Nucleus CMS Typo3 (this is the one I am leaning towards at the moment) CivicSpace If anyone reads this and has any experience with these, please feel free to chime in. The needs of the site are to establish a music artist site that has a lot of interaction, forums, blog (news from the artist type blog), contact form, a place for discography and sound samples, image gallery, and its very important that the CMS is easily skinnable.

David, I had no idea that I had to list the directories like that. I just copied verbatim what the script told me upon install. Sorry, I am not really up to speed with this type of stuff so I am working with a very limited knowledge on CMS's and how they work etc. Scripting is not my strong point at all. That being said, from the gist of the emails I got from support it seems that they may have issues with doing the chown command. I am looking for an alternative CMS to try out that does not need Root or Shell Access. To be honest it's all very confusing to me at this point! I am just trying to design a site that is similar in function to this one: www . adamaworld . com A CMS looks the best route to something like this. Thanks so much for your help, I really apprecaite it.

Ok, it's a no go: Hello, Please be advised that we can not able to change the file permissions in the server. Thank you for your time. Regards, S**** S********* TotalChoice Hosting Bummer, ez is so comprehensive.

Was trying to install eZ Publish CMS on one of the sites I have hosted at TCH, but it seems I need access to change permissions and I don't think that is gonna happen from what I can tell. What CMS systems are TCH approved and install friendly? Thanks

So I emailed support this morning and they have been cryptic. I basically emailed the above to them saying that I needed the permissions changed and asked for their advice or if they would be able to do it and got these replies: 1.) Hello, We have received your ticket and are investigating this issue. We will reply back to this ticket very shortly with a update. Thank you for your time. Regards, S*** S******** TotalChoice Hosting _____________ 2.) Hello, Please be advised that we have some restrictions placed on the server for users to access folders for a security measure. Thank you for your time and understanding. Regards, S*** S******** TotalChoice Hosting Kinda useless replies! So they didn't say yes they can do it or no they can't. I have emailed back asking for clarification. I really just want to know if they can do the permissions or if they will not do that a Yes or No would help. Does anyone know if there is a list of 'approved' CMS packages that can run on TCH servers?

Hmmm... I know I can CHMOD stuff from the file manager in cPanel and also with SmartFTP.. but it doesn't really say what permissions to set. Would the permissions just be 777? Maybe I should email support to see if they should do it or if they would even allow that. Thanks Rob & Bruce

Just fiddling around with eZ Publish and after I unzipped the distribution t my directory on my domain and went to the Wizard to configure, I got these messages: Any ideas on how I can fix these issues to be able to move on in the installation? I can't make sense of the way they said to fix the issues. Looks like greek to me! I have no idea what shell commands are.

Ah Ok. Well what I was going to do is play with it on one of my less travelled domains and then if I like it I was going to set it up on my main site domain when the time is right. I guess I will have to see what happens.

Yeah... been reading that it might be a hog. Would I email tech support to see if it's OK to use on TCH servers. So far I haven't found another CMS that has everything I want. EzPublisher is the best I've looked at so far. I would hate to do a design and then be asked to pull the CMS off the server because it was too greedy

From what I can gather the design is DIV based CSS. Guess I better get crackin on the learning tip! Rob, do you know if this CMS is allowed on TCH Servers. I read some things about other CMS packages being resource hogs on shared servers. Who should I check with?

When I did a search on Yahoo a few companies came up that have ready made skins... but they were.... well... lame! LOL I hope to create my own skin. Guess the only way to do is try....

I am considering using ezPublish for the next generation design of one of my sites. I was wondering if anyone here knew how hard this CMS is to skin? I am PHP "challenged" and only so-so at CSS and HTML. I am one of those Photoshop/Fireworks design and slice for output to Dreamweaver type people.... ha ha! Also, if anyone here has installed ez Publish and can give me their personal opinions on it, that would be much appreciated. Basically I want to develop a new site that has robust news and community features but I want the site to look really pretty.

Where is PHP 101? I need to find it!