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Praising the Tiki God

Explore Tiki, arguably the most robust content management system on the planet

Everywhere you look these days, a new PHP Nuke site is popping up. From basket weaving to dual-core processor fan sites, PHP Nuke has become the de facto portal site for users of every skill level. The problem is, even though the Nuke code base has advanced over the years, Nuke sites still all look alike and contain the same tired modules across the board: Forum, Member List, Downloads, and Topics.
Although Nuke is quite a powerful application, its popularity overshadows other systems that are easier to customize for business and personal pursuits and have reached “production/stable” status on the SourceForge.net web site.
The day you decide that you or your company needs to deploy a web site is the day you’ve decided to use a content management system, or CMS. A CMS allows allow you to perform all of the publishing and maintenance tasks for your site without having to learn the minutiae of HTML and CSS syntax. A CMS lets you concentrate on finding skilled writers and editors who may or may not have secondary web page authoring skills.
When exploring the various CMS packages on the market today — either open source or proprietary packages — you’ll need to consider how the system will fit in with your existing applications and if the package actually provides a solution to your needs. How robust are the system’s content editing tools? Are the tools extensible via an API? Does it provide…

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