The Perfect CMS
Well, to start with, I tell you there is no such thing. For those who doesn’t know what CMS is, it is “Content Management System” a program used at servers to present dynamic content. Now I use Wordpress for my blog, and Drupal for Jordan Planet, and had used Mambo for several internal test sites, and tried Plone once with a failure.
Now I had been looking for a simple CMS with the ability to have Multi-Language Interface (Arabic/English). Besides the interface, it should have the ability to have different templates for each lang, share same set of data (users, session, etc..), and provide Content translation tools. I found such attempts with the I18n module of Drupal, and the Mambelfish component of Mambo, but of those two is something solid and complete.
I remember back at the days of Nukes (PHPNuke, PostNuke) Multilang was really easy, you set the language upon menu item, for each article, and so on. I wonder why the NEW CMS systems completely ignored it.
As for me, I will have to continue to play around with the Open Source CMS, as it seems that none of them works out of the box for my simple need. I will tell you what happens when I am done.
This is all Greek to me! :P
Drupal is good, as its a modular system, anyway what you are looking for, whats your needs?
Xoops is good, they have huge modules repos, but still
Whats your needs my lord?
ah darn, I mean, whats your needs beside the multi-lang
Give Plone another go. It’s accessibility and language features make it second to none.
Good luck.
I know how yucky it is looking for a CMS that fits your exact needs. It’s almost impossible without tinkering in the code yourself.