Best CMS?

**twenty-eleven** · 02-06-08, 10:16 AM

it really depends on what your needs are - there are different CMS options for different needs

**HWT** · 18-06-08, 01:08 PM

I'm a big fan of Drupal ... it does virtually everything, although the base forum is incredibly horrible, so you need to find a 3rd party forum that integrates with it. So really, Drupal is great for a news/portal/whatever site - the more complex the merrier - but if the site will be primarily a forum, don't use it. I have a couple of sites in Drupal, one in Wordpress, had one that was entirely custom but moved to Drupal, and also run some forums with various free and commercial software.

Drupal is a total pain in the butt the first time you use it though, once you've worked out all (ok, some of) its features and foibles, and figured out how to theme it up, and pulled out most of your hair and discovered that custom php Just Works, its lovely.

**Brendan** · 19-06-08, 08:59 PM

Hey HWT, it would be great to see some of your sites developed in Drupal.. we use Joomla for a lot of our clients and they love it.

It would be good to offer something else for those who want options.

**HWT** · 20-06-08, 10:53 AM

Most of our sites aren't worth bothering with, but the biggie is my pet project, Giraffian | kid's stuff ... has a helluvalot of drupal features in use there, no forum (between looking for a good drupal forum and realising how much mod work it would be to keep it totally clean, swearing-free etc I didn't bother). I currently have a longish to-do list here that needs so much scripting, graphics, database design etc that it could keep me busy until Easter. I switched to Drupal late last year, took a lot of pestering of people in the drupal community to get the site to do what I wanted.

The site got a mention in a small-town newspaper a few weeks ago as non-profit, but it is a nice little earner considering it is free content and isn't a community site. I don't market it, I should.

Edit: hey, this forum software grabbed the title of my site ...

**J_D** · 20-06-08, 11:50 AM

That's a really kewl looking site :-)

The title grab is an awesome feature!!!

JD

**stephenjames** · 27-08-10, 04:08 AM

I hadnt heard one thing about it before i found it searching online. I'm surprised it isn't bigger then it is.Stabla, out of all my research i found silverstripe to look the best, for the reason your stated...

**HWT** · 27-08-10, 10:32 AM

Since time has passed, http://photographicdictionary.com and http://wordsbycat.com are both Drupal sites.

I made words by cat because I kept finding cats when I was looking for anything other than cats while I was doing the photo dictionary, so I thought it would be funny to put all the cat pictures together

**geekshonors** · 28-08-10, 01:28 AM

In my opinion, Wordpress is an excellent Content Management System. You can add, edit as well as delete your content online. Wordpress is measured the mainly SEO friendly CMS system.