Content Management Systems

[Brendan]

Hey Guys,

I thought I would start a thread for discussing content management systems for websites, and what people think are the best.

I have used a few from the early days of 'CuteNews', through to Joomla..

Here is what I have found with some of the ones I have used;

WordPress - WordPress Blog Tool and Weblog Platform (http://www.wordpress.org)
This was primarily released as a blogging platform, but I do see more and more sites developing their whole website based on its framework, its free, very easy to use, customise and distribute, not to mention the endless plugins!

If you are making a site that is a basic 5-6 page site with standard type content.. then wordpress is excellent.

Some examples of wordpress sites
Splashpress Media (http://www.splashpress.com)
Get Rich Slick (http://www.getrichslick.net)
Appbid : Buy and Sell Facebook and Opensocial Applicaitons (http://www.appbid.com)

Jooma / Mambo - Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org)
Joomla is fantastic, its certainly a more advanced solution to managing content, its free, and out of the box allows user management, comprehensive categories and content management, endless mods and product add ons and a fully customizable template system.

I would suggest Joomla for a more 'corporate' type solution, its much more advanced and has a load more features.. but can be overkill for the majority of users.

Some Joomla Examples
Global Fitness Institute - Online Training Provider - Home (http://www.global-fitness.com.au)
Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org)

They are the two main ones I use.. can anyone recommend any others? such as Drupal.. ?

[crackers]

Joomla. I use it on EVERY website i make. Its amazing and really easy to mod.

[Slade]

crackers... have you got some examples you can show us?

[rosshill]

I use wordpress - I don't think it really matters what you choose as long as you dig into it and learn how to customise it. Just get knowledgable with something.

[itycoon]

I use Joomla and Wordpress. My personal favorites. Here are two of the sites I have that are running them.

Photoshop Engage (http://www.photoshopengage.com) - Wordpress
tymez: news bits you might have missed
(http://www.tymez.com) - Wordpress.

[Slade]

hey itycoon, your photoshop blog comes up with an error -

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/p/h/o/photoshopking/html/wp-config.php:35) in /home/content/p/h/o/photoshopking/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391