Web CMSs: what does Midgard do?
Column Two has an interesting post titled What does a web CMS do? with a table listing features that are integral to a web CMS, and what can be handled separately.
I thought to list how Midgard handles those:
| Capability | Midgard way of handling |
|---|---|
| Authoring and publishing web pages | Yes, definitely |
| Multimedia content | Midgard can manage images and video to a simple extent |
| Personalisation | Easy to do via the API |
| Online forms | Multiple handlers available, like email forms, event registration and incident reporting |
| Online calendar | Yes, with quite comprehensive feature set |
| Blogs | Built-in, with RSS in and out, geoblogging and commenting |
| Search | Midgard uses the Lucene search tool |
| Collaboration tools | OpenPsa can be used to some extent |
| Wikis | Midgard provides a quite nice wiki |
| Web 2.0 functionality | Depends on definition, we have OpenID, social networking (with some portability), voting and other related features |
| Mailing lists | Midgard's discussion forum can act as mailing list front-end |
| E-commerce functionality | Midgard has a product database and provides a simple shopping cart built-in |
| Corporate document/records management | No, whole market of its own |
| Digital asset management (DAM) | No, obtain separately |
| Usage statistics | No, obtain separately |
The fact that Midgard supports almost everything listed may sound like bloat, but we actually do this quite elegantly because of the component architecture that enables site builders to pick and use whatever pieces of functionality they need.
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