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[BAL1974]

hi,

Which company provide CMS and website software, which an amateur like me can make his own webpages?

• Is has to be af CMS provider, who offer CMS to small business and to private as-well.

Can you help me to get an onverview regarding the CMS market in Australia - but a provider with a low start costs :-)

Hope to hear from you.

[Brendan]

Hey BAL.. I have recommended a few people here - Design Your Own Business Website! Quality website design packages made easy -

It is a fantastic tool, you should give the free trial a go.. best thing is it is hosted in australia so is really fast and support is great .. but maybe I am biased :P

You may also want to look at a self hosted solution like wordpress or joomla.

[BAL1974]

Great - how is the competition for cheap CMS in Australia? Is there many Australia CMS companies?

[scoletts]

I wholeheartedly recommend CMS Made Simple CMS Made Simple - Open Source Content Management System

It requires a little design and development knowledge but holds its weight against the giant, drupal, and it's "taxonomy" is a whole heap less confusing.

[gigglemedia]

WordPress is a good CMS. While it was originally designed for blogging, the growing range of plugins make it a pretty powerful CMS that is user friendly. I've used Joomla in the past and have found that WordPress meets my client needs just as well. Depends on your needs. WordPress Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

Wix is one that's popped up recently. I vehemently hate Flash but if you like, it may suit your needs. Create a Free Website , Free Flash Website Builder at Wix.com

If you're a good designer and coder, Surreal CMS is a fantastic platform to create and maintain simple websites with a faux CMS. Surreal CMS

All of the above can be used for free and then upgraded to paid accounts.

[BAL1974]

Great! Is all the above CMS have great SEO functionality ?

[HWT]

Drupal isn't the best for SEO I've found.

We run a little computer store and can help customise the most popular CMSs to suit what you need. Usually takes a couple of days to set it up 'exactly' right unless you're doing something extremely simple.

[ray_223]

Drupal isn't the best for SEO I've found.

We run a little computer store and can help customise the most popular CMSs to suit what you need. Usually takes a couple of days to set it up 'exactly' right unless you're doing something extremely simple.

I find Drupal (with a couple of addon modules) to be great for SEO.

What problems do you face?

Regards,

Ray Smith
RaymondSmith.com | simple by design

[firstmillion]

I will be interested in setting up a website. Where do you suggest to host the website?

Cheers

[HWT]

I find Drupal (with a couple of addon modules) to be great for SEO.

What problems do you face?

Probably the lack of addon modules

It doesn't set meta description and keywords by default, you need to add them in manually in the theme. And then you're stuck with the same ones across the entire site unless you do some hacking to make different sections display different information. Not an issue with a small homogenous site but when you have a big site with a lot of different stuff it makes a difference. I had a jump in ranking when I manually added these things.

Also has h1 for the logo and h2 for content headers. Not sure how much this affects things though.

My site with extremely poor ranking is a drupal one. My site with good ranking is also drupal. The poorly ranked site is *much* better quality content and layout-wise. I suppose I just need to wait for something to change in Google-land.