In General Stuff | Tags: cms, Web Design | | June 11, 2009
Attention Web Designers and Developers!
I am currently researching Content Management Systems in terms of ease of installation, customisation, availability of plugins/add-ons and end user-friendliness
(is this even a word?). I would really appreciate your help with this.
I will be publishing my findings here and contributions I receive will be featured and linked so if you would like to be involved, please send me an email specifying either the reasons…
- why you would use open-source
or
- why you prefer to custom-build
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I use Joomla for portal / business / community type sites, and WordPress for blogs. Drupal is also a very popular Open Source CMS with loads of flexibility.
It all depends on what you’re looking for — what the site is for and who it’s aimed at.
You can check out installed demos of a wide range of Open Source CMS’s at http://www.opensourcecms.com — it lets you give all of them a whirl.
I use WordPress for mainly “bloggy” little personal projects & nixers, and it seems to be fine for that. For something more extensive with a good resource of plugins & support etc, I’ve heard very good things about Expression Engine (another PHP-based CMS). At work (at http://www.xcomms.ie) we use Kentico CMS – it’s an ASP .NET based one – never any problems, great feedback from clients on usability & highly scalable.
Hope that’s useful!
I’d love to find a hybrid solution for a CMS… something that just worked with the database and left the frontend build to me.
Currently we use a mixture of custom built CMS’s and Wordpress.
@david – have you looked at django (djangoproject.com)?
If you can run coldfusion, you could also look into using Speck (speckcms.org). I’m the lead developer, so I’m biased, but it sounds like it might be a good match too.