JSLardo is a interesting “social” CMS, based on NodeJS and mongodb; it uses Jade for templates.
jslardo requires users to register and allows them to create not only content, but create models, views, websites and pages.
That’s indeed an interesting sidestep from the usual way content management systems run–and only time will show whether the “JSLardo” way will become popular.
nanoc is a static website generator for Ruby.
It runs locally, and is used to convert marked-up files to HTML.
Currently, nanoc supports Markdown, Textile, Haml, and other markup formats.
What’s awesome about nanoc is that you can execute helper methods and write Ruby code, and, in the end, create safe, previewable, and versionable static websites.
nanoc also has an exemplary, easy-to-use documentation.
Toto is a tiny, git-powered blogging engine for static websites.
Toto is mostly run through git and can be installed as a Ruby gem.
It’s a very minimalistic blogging engine which has a single default theme, Dorothy.
Comments are handled by Disqus, plus toto has a single configuration file for the whole blog.
Altogether, this is a fairly nice blogging system, but it requires a Rack-compliant webserver (thin, mongrel, unicorn, etc.) to run.
Pixie is a simple CMS, or, as developers put it, a “website maker” written in PHP.
Although the development has been rather inactive for a while, Pixie is nevertheless a very promising little CMS with lots of bundled features:
But you won’t, as often is the case with smaller website makers, like the lack of free themes to build upon when creating a design of your own.
Melody is an open source CMS for bloggers and publishers that’s maintained and updated by the community.
Melody is a major fork of Movable Type, and branched off to provide a more community-driven content management system.
Melody is easy to theme, and powerful enough for most types of blogs. The CMS supports themes and plugins from MT, but the community has created more than enough extensions that are Melody-exclusive.
Zimplit is a Content Management System for websites that don’t require a lot of thought but do require editing (for websites that aren’t static).
Zimplit doesn’t require a database, as all pages are updated with a file manager.
The CMS is used by more than 100,000 websites, and thus has a number of juicy templates available (and templating isn’t hard at all).
Altogether, Zimplit offers the non-developing user an easy solution for creating simple websites.
03 February, 2012
By Lauris Veips
