Global Moxie: I played around with Big Medium, which is a new (v1.1) content management system. It’s not bad, thought it’s closed, meaning it manages content so long as your “content” consists of articles with a title, slug, body, etc.
They do have some neat things for pull-quotes and such, that were well done. The interface is simple and usable, and I have no doubt you could build a great site with it — the sites they set up for you if you request a demo are more complex than your average blog or PostNuke site.
It’s $129, and probably worth it, depending on your organization, need, and level of technical sophistication.
Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I admit…
I was over at OpenSourceCMS.com today playing around with some content management systems: phpWebSite, Xoops, and PostNuke. They were all quite good, with phpWebSite being the one I enjoyed the most. But I want to articulate something I've had I was over at OpenSourceCMS.com today playing around with…