$5000 Award for Open Source CMS

The Citizen writes "Packt Publishing has released details of an award scheme for open source Content Management Systems to enter and win a $5,000 prize. From the article: 'The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to PacktPub.com.' They're asking for people to submit nominations for their favorite open source Content Management System now."

Comments

easy to pick the best

[Anonymous Coward]

from 606! open source CMS systems to choose from

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

dont ever think that OSS doesnt give you a choice
and choice is good right ?

Parameters?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

What are the parameters for a good CMS?

Many CMSes (both open and closed source) fail on issues that really matter, like:

• Not having stupid URLs like /cms.cgi?pageid=1234
• Putting lots of <table>s in the layout rather than using semantic markup
• Putting page content too late in the page so search engines have to work harder to find it, or generally being unfriendly to robots
• Not setting page metadata usefully
• Not including accessibility features like access keys, forcing ALT text, jump to navigation
• Not providing stylesheets for different @media
• Not integrating well with analysis tools so you can see where people are coming from, what they do, whether your visitors are going up or down, are they reading the pages you think they should be reading, etc.
• Speed
• Ease of configuration (hello, Plone)
• Providing workflow which is either too difficult to set up, or too complicated to understand for the users, or over/under-kill for the requirements of the site

Rich.