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As a result of talking to several people on this site and others and with some help and encouragement from Matthew Schenker from this forum, I have put together a document discussing the issues around adding full content control (or CCK) to the core of Joomla.

I am not technical, so this is not a technical discussion, but rather looks at the entire issue from the point of view of an administrator and client.

In the document I am not trying propose a definitive solution, though…

Note: See also Matthew's post on the same subject

As Content Management Systems mature and become more and more a part of day to day website development, so the pressure is on to create systems that can be tailored for their end users requirements rather than swamp the user (and for that matter the developer) with so much functionality that…

Since the release of Seblod CCK (GA) I have been playing around with it on a personal website.

I am generally very impressed with what they are doing, though I am concerned that some of their approach (especially with regards to templates) maybe unnecessarily complicated. 

In using it, the one thing that has occured to me is that before you even start with a CCK are the existing fields in the Joomla default database complete enough? In this case I am thinking primarily about…

I probably have this wrong, but I get the impression that many early CMS type applications were designed on the basis of a couple of people using it and shoving information into the right sized holes so that it looked okay in a web browser.

There is nothing wrong with that, but there is an argument to say that prior to the web, it never worked that way. Actually, it was far more flexible and maliable and how the system worked was a reflection of the type of information involved, and…