October 29, 2008 at 15:27Ratings + Traits = Portrait CMS. What do you think?
A month ago, at the CMS Magazine project, we launched the “ Personal Experience ” section. In the process of communicating on forums and with site representatives (developers, content managers, optimizers, etc.), the following main disadvantages were identified:
Another topic that has repeatedly been raised in the discussions of the project was the lack of a CMS selection mechanism on our project.
The lack of a CMS selection mechanism at the moment is explained by the fact that for the correct functioning of parametric selection, comprehensive information is needed about all possible CMS configurations and plugins for them. Because at the moment we only have information about some of the features of the “top” versions of products (the most expensive for commercial products, and with a full set of modules and plug-ins for open-source), we want to go a different way. Namely: to provide such a tool that will allow you to make a choice of CMS according to its "portrait" - the one that its users see (website developers, content managers, optimizers).
Now we return to the first “victim” - the shortcomings of the current implementation of “Personal experience”. We have designed a mechanism for the accumulation of opinions about CMS, which solves the indicated problems, and forms those very “portraits”. Its essence is as follows: the contact person for the site confirms its belonging to it, describes the site and the version of CMS currently being used, and, most importantly, expresses its opinion about it in the format: an assessment of a number of parameters + explanatory tags (for example, an assessment for those support - 4 out of 5, explanation: good documentation, slow reaction to calls to support - these are the “features” that make up the portrait). At the same time, you can enter information about currently unused CMS (which, for example, were considered in the process of choosing a system or a change of CMS occurred). Also, if desired, you can share detailed personal experience.
We tried to visualize all this with the help of MS Visio: www.cmsmagazine.ru/different/schemas/Opinions.htm (it’s best to look in Internet Explorer, in other browsers there will be no possibility of scaling schemes).
In which direction we would like to start a discussion of this our idea:
Supplement:
We will summarize here a list of criteria / details.
- not everyone is ready to spend time on detailed answers to “open” questions (at the same time, I would like to once again thank those who still do this);
- not enough grades - so that you can get a “concise” opinion about the CMS, summarize the experiments;
- most likely, there are others :-) - we are ready to discuss them with you.
Another topic that has repeatedly been raised in the discussions of the project was the lack of a CMS selection mechanism on our project.
The lack of a CMS selection mechanism at the moment is explained by the fact that for the correct functioning of parametric selection, comprehensive information is needed about all possible CMS configurations and plugins for them. Because at the moment we only have information about some of the features of the “top” versions of products (the most expensive for commercial products, and with a full set of modules and plug-ins for open-source), we want to go a different way. Namely: to provide such a tool that will allow you to make a choice of CMS according to its "portrait" - the one that its users see (website developers, content managers, optimizers).
Now we return to the first “victim” - the shortcomings of the current implementation of “Personal experience”. We have designed a mechanism for the accumulation of opinions about CMS, which solves the indicated problems, and forms those very “portraits”. Its essence is as follows: the contact person for the site confirms its belonging to it, describes the site and the version of CMS currently being used, and, most importantly, expresses its opinion about it in the format: an assessment of a number of parameters + explanatory tags (for example, an assessment for those support - 4 out of 5, explanation: good documentation, slow reaction to calls to support - these are the “features” that make up the portrait). At the same time, you can enter information about currently unused CMS (which, for example, were considered in the process of choosing a system or a change of CMS occurred). Also, if desired, you can share detailed personal experience.
We tried to visualize all this with the help of MS Visio: www.cmsmagazine.ru/different/schemas/Opinions.htm (it’s best to look in Internet Explorer, in other browsers there will be no possibility of scaling schemes).
In which direction we would like to start a discussion of this our idea:
- Your overall impression.
- Your options for the criteria by which you can evaluate CMS.
- Your options for "details" of the CMS portrait.
Supplement:
We will summarize here a list of criteria / details.
- Own features (core, plugins)
- Good / bad forum
- Integration with third-party software / services / services
- Forum Integration
- Integration with payment systems