[TYPO3] Is Typo3 the choice for me?

[ammad jami]

Thanks Michael,

- Sorry for sending the mail twice.

- No, as such I'll have FE content authors, as well as BE. I mean we will
add a lot of content from ourside as well to a lot of community sites,
groups and sub portals.

- Yes, I understand that I'll require good supoort services.

candidcarper


On 2/21/06, Michael Scharkow <mscharkow at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> ammad jami wrote:
> > Hello
>
> Hi, please don't post the same mail twice, thanks.
>
> > I am in process of selecting a CMS. I actually have to develop a big
> portal
> > for a certain industry. This portal will have 100+ sub portals. Each
> > subportal will have registered users and each user will have a site of
> his
> > own for maintaining his personal content on his personal site. There
> will be
> > around 1000+ users per subportal. Moreover, each subportal will have
> blogs,
> > communities, groups etc. as well as some shared content sites. Each user
> > having an indpendent site on a subportal, may also need to connect to an
> > email server where an email account rests for him.
> > So the question is, Is Typo3 a good choice to fit these needs?
>
> 1) The BE/FE distinction does not seem to work well with your concept,
> which has only FE users who manage some content and interact in forums,
> etc.
> 2) User registration, personal home pages, blogs all need customization
> in TYPO3, and if you want FE users to manage all this, you have to write
> custom extensions in some cases.
>
> > By the way, till now the race has narrowed down between Typo3,Plone and
> > Drupal.
>
> I'm not sure if either of them is a good choice. I don't know much about
> Drupal, but with Plone it is equally hard to have individual sub-portals
> with their own infrastructure and users. Of course, it is always
> possible to simply create 100+ Plone or Drupal sites, but that's ugly
> and cheating.
>
> With TYPO3, you could create a subportal structure and then replicate
> this as often as you want as a simple subpage to the site root, and you
> could manage your users, override templates, etc. in these subportals.
> That would be the best solution I think.
>
> So for TYPO3 and your project:
>
> 1. Scalability and management of subportals: Very well suited
> 2. Community functions and stuff: Not out of the box, but can be done
>
> I expect that you have a big budget for such a project, and you could
> afford professional help and custom extensions.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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