Website relaunch with Koken CMS

13.12.2014

Website relaunch with Koken CMS

Over the years I collected many pictures and videos of my trips to foreign countries. The management of these media was getting harder and more and more time consuming. After a short test drive of Joomla, WordPress and Koken I decided to make a relaunch of my website with Koken.

Koken Advantages and Disadvantages

Experiences with Koken while migrating the content of the website:

Advantages	Disadvantages
Easy to install and to update Easy to learn Works (most time) as expected Excellent user interface which feels like almost a desktop application Excellent media/asset management with albums and set of albums to organize media EXIF support for image files Categories and tags for images and videos Resizing of images Drag and drop support for assets Searching, sorting and filtering Blog functionality called "Essays" Easy way to customize the CSS and to create a own theme	Compared to Wordpress or Joomla less functionality and lesser available plugins Early version, currently version 0.19 available No multilanguage support No subcategories, just one level categories No user management, just one administrative account

Advantages

Disadvantages

Easy to install and to update
Easy to learn
Works (most time) as expected
Excellent user interface which feels like almost a desktop application
Excellent media/asset management with albums and set of albums to organize media
- EXIF support for image files
- Categories and tags for images and videos
- Resizing of images
- Drag and drop support for assets
- Searching, sorting and filtering
Blog functionality called "Essays"
Easy way to customize the CSS and to create a own theme

Compared to Wordpress or Joomla less functionality and lesser available plugins
Early version, currently version 0.19 available
No multilanguage support
No subcategories, just one level categories
No user management, just one administrative account