Comments on: Custom Built versus Open Source

By: Mark Woods

Mark Woods — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:07:44 +0000

@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.

By: David Behan

David Behan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:01:00 +0000

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.

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:56:08 +0000

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!

By: Calvin Jones

Calvin Jones — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:12:57 +0000

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.