Please - I'm struggling with this choice ad need some insight from someone who might understand the difficulty I am having choosing the right CMS
We design/ develop custom small business websites and need to decide on ONE CMS platform to adopt and use for all our sites. We've used Joomla/ Drupal/ Wordpress / Concrete5 / ... We need to choose one that works for us and stick with it.
1. An easy to configure and understand Admin site (most of our customers are tech- challenged) Must be intuitive, easy to add and edit
2. LOTS of tools/plug-ins etc for integrations - We do lots of Mashups (Facebook/Twitter/Google Picasa and maps Video,, etc ...
3. Our developer is a LAMP guy -- php/jscript/html/css/ will he liek working with MT
4. Great SEO support
5. Quick to adopt new internet trends and standards
thx
Mike
Reported on Movable Type 5
You would be better off using MT 4.34 right now because it's the best supported version of Movable Type. Most plugins are actually hosted at GitHub. Start here with Endevver and work your way through their "watchers" who have many of their own plugins and themes: http://github.com/endevver/
I can't answer whether or not a typical LAMP developer would like Movable Type or not. I come from a Java background and find Movable Type to be substantially easier to work with than WordPress because it is highly object-oriented and the presentation and business logic are very cleanly separated in Movable Type. It all depends on what type of PHP developer your LAMP guy is. If he's the kind of guy who prefers some of the cutting edge toolkits for PHP, then it will be a good fit.
SEO is entirely under your control in Movable Type.
Movable Type has actually been involved in **building** some trends like OpenID.
Mike:
Aren't there quite a few useful plugins published by Six Apart also?
http://github.com/sixapart/
As Mike has said:You would be better off using MT 4.34 right now because it's the best supported version of Movable Type.
I would say v4.37, and not v4.34 which is quite old and it contains a couple of security issues that were identified and fixed on v4.35, v4.36 and v4.37.
Also, movable type v4.35 has been updated to support php v5.3 (a few functions have been replaced with modern ones).
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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