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CMS: Which one do you use and why?

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I've had experience with the ol' PHP-Nuke, Joomla, and Wordpress.

My favorite I'd say right about now is Wordpress. I know the template system well which allows me to make the system do what I need it to do (to a varying degree).

I wanted to get insight into other CMS' out there just in case I might be missing a better solution.

I'd like a system that's more CMS than Wordpress but less extensive than Joomla. Joomla just has too much in it for a site that's going to have less than 30 pages and no news.

Let me know what's up!
 
What are you using this for? I don't really consider Wordpress a CMS, its more just a blogging tool.

A CMS I consider to be something that a lot of people will be contributing too. It includes a lot of stuff that a blogging tool wouldn't, like files, media, documents, and web content. Also would be able to do workflow for having different people editing, approving, etc as it goes through the flow.
 
I know what a CMS system is. Content Management System. I don't have any extra things that it has to have. Just something that lets me and/or the client easily manage the pages on the site.

Wordpress is a CMS, it's just catered to blogging.
 
Yeah, Wordpress is definitely a CMS.

OP, there's all sorts of plugins to Wordpress that can turn it into something even more bloated than Joomla. It's got message board hook-ins, download managers and all sorts of additional page templates. Have you looked into any plugins for Wordpress to expand it to do what you need?
 
Are there any technical requirements for your choice in CMS -- language, hosting operating system, out-of-box features, etc.?
 
Do you plan on extending it with new code or do you want something that 'just works' that you'll just configure & throw together some templates?
 
I use Drupal, because most features are supported out of the box (with configuration) without the need to install separate modules.

Also, the audio module is great for podcasting, because it automatically creates an iTunes compatible RSS feed.

I don't know about workflow, but its very much designed to have multiple contributors, because it offers tons of customization as to which users can do what.
 
Joomla - seems easy enough, plenty of customization from it's templates to it's plethora of modules, and it's interface is nice.
 
I set up DotNetNuke on the company Intranet and am moving over the companies' web sites to Joomla now. DotNetNuke was ridiculously easy to set up and pretty flexible. Plus I can extend it to integrate with the company's internal applications. I don't really like it though. It has so many annoying little bugs.

Joomla is pretty nice, but was not as easy to set up or administer. I chose that one because it seemed to do what we needed for the external sites. We didn't need anything too complex, just something simple to update content and have custom log in sections for another PHP app.

I guess that didn't add much. :p
 
I don't have any particular needs or anything. My whole point in starting the thread is to see what else is out there that I might not have heard of.

I had a brief experience with Drupal too actually. I didn't particularly care for it's node system.

I've messed around with a lot of Wordpress plugins. There's a lot of cool stuff out there... It looks like Wordpress still is the best thing to use at this point. It's just so easy to customize it to get it to do what you want.
 
I've worked with Joomla (used to build extensions for it), and Wordpress a little. I found that the only way to get everything I wanted, and nothing more, was to build it myself. Which is exactly what I did.

I built a CMS as a class project, and am working on the third version of it - which I intend to release to the public.

One other solution, is to not use a CMS. Instead, use Dreamweaver, it's template functions, and Contribute. Now, contribute is a DOG of a program, but if you only have a few people contributing content to the site, it's actually not that bad of a solution. Of course, if you want dynamic functionality that many CMS's bring (article commenting, true blogging abilities, calendar functions) then using dreamweaver / contribute isn't possible.

But if this is a static site, it is worth a look into. My old employer used to use it for www.tracypress.com, and it worked out really well. Eventually the site grew way to big and complex, so we switched to Joomla.
 
I used to do my site with Dreamweaver, but found it to be to much work to add more content. So like the above poster said - if you have a relatively static site, it may work, but if you plan to add content regularly, its easier to have a CMS from the get-go.
 
ModX CMS - http://www.modxcms.com

In the past I skipped it over..

The job I'm working at has been using Etomite - which ModX is a branch of.
Out of all the CMS's I've played with (I was even a developer that helped with the Thatware project - way dead now - basically was like PHP Nuke) it's the easiest to do things with. No weird template engines (cough smarty cough) which is good for designers (even an old company I left now uses it (long story)). It's easy for PHP programmers to do things with it. I can program normally in an external file and include it (you have to make a snippet that will include the PHP).

The user base isn't as big as Drupal or WP, but it did win one of those award thingies.
 
I second MODx! It's a nice user friendly CMS, but still powerful at the same time and I can template for it in my sleep!

I just wish I could template some other scripts as easly talk about some nice site integration!

AMDbuilder
 
For something that you can do quite a bit with but is easy to get started try Movable Type. If you want to get something more complex and customizable try Django or Expression Engine.
 
Joomla is the best CMS around. Easy to use, HUGE community, lots of features and custom modules. It doesn't matter how big the site is going to be. You can disable all the features that you're not going to use. You can also use the news items like separate pages. It all depends on how you do your menus.
 
I personally am a fan of Drupal, and have used it on a couple of sites. I've also had to do a comparison of Drupal vs. Wordpress. It really comes down to what do you want to do.

For a site with few contributers, blog style, Wordpress is the way to go.
For a bigger site with many contributers then Drupal seems to be better.
 
I use phpwcms. I looked at all of the popular choices (Mambo, PHP-Nuke, Drupal, etc) and I had a hard time making them work the way I wanted; what with my limited programming knowledge and all.

I stumbled onto phpwcms back in 2004 and it was almost a perfect fit for what I wanted to do. I was able to add new content to the site from any location with Internet access and have "normal users" add their own content. It didn't have a built in news or blog program so I had to rely on another program to do just that. Probably too simple for today's needs, but I don't think I'll switch any time soon.
 
I coded my own CMS, mostly for the learning experience but also because it's easy to make it do exactly what I want it to do since I know the code inside and out. But the disadvantage (besides the coding!) is that it's so customized for my specific use that others would probably have a hard time using it.
 
Maximus825 said:
Joomla is the best CMS around. Easy to use, HUGE community, lots of features and custom modules. It doesn't matter how big the site is going to be. You can disable all the features that you're not going to use. You can also use the news items like separate pages. It all depends on how you do your menus.
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Agreed.

I loved Mambo...then switched to joomla with the devs and it is awesome! Been using it for years and it is the best I have found. Very straight forward, clean code, and very customizable.

I have used it for tiny and large sites with no issues.

www.TechIslands.com
www.BPhils.com

are my personally administrated sites that I have made (I have done a few others that I do not control).
 
I've tried out quite a few and couldn't find one that suited me so in the end started working on my own. The way I see in it is much easier to customize and fix my mistakes than rather than somebody else's.
 
I started playing with Drupal this week and it seems pretty nice. I might reconsider the choice of Joomla for a current project if I can figure out a way to do it easier in Drupal (remotely granting access to files on a per user login basis, expiring after a certain time).
 
I used to be pretty fond of e107, pretty easy to work with and lots of plugins to easily create an entire site with. Lately I've been experimenting with Drupal, and will probably be using it for a few sites once I get the time to hire a custom programmer for it. I really like Drupal's node system, and know several big name sites that run on modified versions of it.
 
I use Drupal also.

I don't have extensive experience with any other CMS systems other than Wordpress so I won't say it's better/worse than Joomla, .net Nuke, etc.

Biggest strength of Drupal: Modularity. Out of the box it has core, so you can setup blogs, and a general website, etc. After that you have COUNTLESS modules you can add and customize to your liking. My experience with it has been amazing, I can't say I've been angry with it yet. Any problem I run into has been solved by searching drupal.org and google.

Good luck
 
I used ExpressionEngine for a little while and found it to be extensible and easy to understand how everything was designed/laid out/template system/etc. were set up :).
 
How easy is it for non-techies to update a Drupal site?

I want to build a site for someone and let THEM update content. A small site, with a dozen or so pages. I want to get them off of Frontpage!

This is their current site built in Frontpage:

http://www.ccaclog.com/

They just need to be able to add stuff to a few pages... like news, dates and other current info.
 
Updating content on Drupal is like typing in a word document (with a few module additions).

For a site that size it might be better to go with Wordpress. Same ease of use, but simpler to setup.
 
Just a heads up to the people on shared hosting, if they plan to get into Drupal:
When setting up a DB, you will need user permissions such as the regular, ADD, INDEX, etc... But many out there do not provide CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLE, which you NEED for installing (doh!) and running Drupal.
 
After yesterday's announcement of Drupal 6, I jumped in and installed it. It's pretty cool!

One question for those who build sites with Drupal... how do you make custom navigation buttons like you would for a regular website? I've been building websites for years, and create headers and buttons in Photoshop, slicing them up and linking each button to the page. Is there a way to add your own header and buttons to the top of a Drupal site?

Look at this example of navigation for a regular website I've built: http://www.carolinafusioncloggers.com/

Could I make buttons like that, and just put the code somewhere in Drupal?
 
Maximus825 said:
Joomla is the best CMS around. Easy to use, HUGE community, lots of features and custom modules. It doesn't matter how big the site is going to be. You can disable all the features that you're not going to use. You can also use the news items like separate pages. It all depends on how you do your menus.
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Agreed. I've used Joomla for a couple years now and it is definitely incredible - keeps getting better all the time.
 
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