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Odd Fact
January 25th, 2006, 20:06
I am looking for suggestions on news scripts or simple CMS scripts. I am using CuteNews and the AJ-Fork now. I want to use it for a rant page and events page. However the scripts do not output very pretty code. Any better suggestions. The script also needs to be able to integrate cleanly.
Nasrajan
January 26th, 2006, 02:11
If you are looking for Open source solutions, check through :

http://opensourcecms.com/

You can try out the demo version of each product too :)
the_pm
January 26th, 2006, 02:47
The BeSpoke Blog script developed by IWDN members might be suitable for your needs. We're using it on equentitysucks.com, and Jamie and I both have it on our personal sites.
Tjobbe
January 26th, 2006, 16:33
I strongly recomend SNEWS - version 1.4 is coming out very soon and is xhtml valid..

http://solucija.com/
Odd Fact
January 26th, 2006, 18:52
Paul can bespoke be pulled in like a news script. For example CuteNews you add a few tags to your template to pull the content in?

Tjobbe I downloaded and will play with SNEWS. Do you have it running on any sites? How easy is it to integrate?
Tjobbe
January 26th, 2006, 18:54
I have it working on my blog site: farstyle.com.

It uses php functions and you can customise it fairly easily enought to fit in with most designs.

The forums at the solucija web site is also extremely helpfull.

Good luck!
the_pm
January 26th, 2006, 19:13
Paul can bespoke be pulled in like a news script. For example CuteNews you add a few tags to your template to pull the content in?Yes. This is how we have it running on equentitysucks.com. It is a very basic script, and maybe the community will put effort into enhancing it (I added a set of code/tag buttons in the admin area to make it work similarly to BBCode in forums).
Odd Fact
January 26th, 2006, 19:41
Paul I will try bespoke next. SNEWS looks good. But right now it yo have to hardcode modifications to pull the content into a template.
Tyler
January 26th, 2006, 20:59
I strongly recomend SNEWS - version 1.4 is coming out very soon and is xhtml valid..

http://solucija.com/

Whoa....that's almost an identical design I'm using for a script I've been selling..Thanks Tjobbe for posting that otherwise I would've never found that.
Tjobbe
January 27th, 2006, 12:08
Whoa....that's almost an identical design I'm using for a script I've been selling..Thanks Tjobbe for posting that otherwise I would've never found that.

Version 1.4 with search engine safe URLS and many other features is coming out any minute now, I suggest you wait for it as it will be much much better than 1.3!
Odd Fact
January 27th, 2006, 16:42
TJobbe any tips on pulling and formatting content with SNEWS.

I have it pulling into a page
http://strokersonline.com/snews/index.php
Tjobbe
January 27th, 2006, 16:51
Tjobbe any tips on pulling and formatting content with SNEWS.

I have it pulling into a page
http://strokersonline.com/snews/index.php

not 100% sure what you mean there..

You can create a new style sheet, attach it to this page only, and make custom styles with CSS..

I can see you are using this within your existing site design at the moment, but I'm not sure what you want to achieve?
Odd Fact
January 27th, 2006, 16:58
Trying to get it to look more like
http://strokersonline.com/press.php
http://strokersonline.com/rant.php
Tjobbe
January 27th, 2006, 17:06
ah I see, not that difficult to be honest! I can help you with that, it does depend on a few things though!

Will all the content on that page be from one single category? i.e - your daily / weekly rants on any given subject?

If that is the case, you just need one single category from within snews which you add your posts to, then have that particular category display all of the posts in order on that page.

Does this sound like what you need doing? If so, I can tell you waht you need to do to achieve that..