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What is your favorite CMS and why?
a list of the pros and cons of each CMS ( joomila, droople etc.) would be ideal.
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I've found in my experience with friend's websites, that Wordpress and Drupal. Since they're so widely used, there's a lot more support for them online, as well as more plugins. While Wordpress might seem just like blogging software at a quick glance, it's quite robust I've found.
Drupal in my experience to has been very powerful and robust, but also harder to work with then some of the alternatives. Very good CMS for programmers. If you can't learn it yourself then finding someone who does shouldn't be too hard.
Joomla on the other hand, from what I've heard, is easier for designers to use, less worrying about the back end and coding and more about the user experience. I'm not very sure about how good it is though, on the whole.
This is all though from my experience/what I've heard. If you want a more extensive comparison of certain CMS, then there's this dandy website (listed below) that let's you pick out up to 10 and compare their features side by side.
Drupal in my experience to has been very powerful and robust, but also harder to work with then some of the alternatives. Very good CMS for programmers. If you can't learn it yourself then finding someone who does shouldn't be too hard.
Joomla on the other hand, from what I've heard, is easier for designers to use, less worrying about the back end and coding and more about the user experience. I'm not very sure about how good it is though, on the whole.
This is all though from my experience/what I've heard. If you want a more extensive comparison of certain CMS, then there's this dandy website (listed below) that let's you pick out up to 10 and compare their features side by side.
This is an invaluable resource when trying to choose a CMS:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
Cmsmatrix is a great place to review the features of each. You can check off what you're looking for and will give you a comparison. Pretty good site for this type of comparison because there are a TON of CMS' out there and you really need to think about what features you need.
Generally, Drupal and Joomla are two of the most popular CMS choices. You can find an in depth review and comparison of them here:
http://cmsreport.com/node/543
From the article:
"If architecture is more important than function you're likely going to want to choose Drupal. However, if you need to make a quick sell where function, third party integration, and eye candy is important right out the box...Joomla still has the advantage."
This highlights the major difference between Drupal and Joomla.
Personally, I like the Expression Engine: http://expressionengine.com/
The functionality, programmatic style, options, support and general features fit in perfectly (usually) with what I'm doing.
Evaluating a CMS really depends on your exact requirements.
I hope that this helps Fromzero!
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
Cmsmatrix is a great place to review the features of each. You can check off what you're looking for and will give you a comparison. Pretty good site for this type of comparison because there are a TON of CMS' out there and you really need to think about what features you need.
Generally, Drupal and Joomla are two of the most popular CMS choices. You can find an in depth review and comparison of them here:
http://cmsreport.com/node/543
From the article:
"If architecture is more important than function you're likely going to want to choose Drupal. However, if you need to make a quick sell where function, third party integration, and eye candy is important right out the box...Joomla still has the advantage."
This highlights the major difference between Drupal and Joomla.
Personally, I like the Expression Engine: http://expressionengine.com/
The functionality, programmatic style, options, support and general features fit in perfectly (usually) with what I'm doing.
Evaluating a CMS really depends on your exact requirements.
I hope that this helps Fromzero!
If you're looking for an open-source CMS, take a look at http://www.opensourcecms.com. The site has each of many different CMSs (and other server apps) installed so you can login and try them out. It's divided by PHP and ASPX -- there are 81 open-source CMS packages installed on the PHP side alone (like Drupal, Joomla, etc.).
Depending on the size of your site, ExpressionEngine absolutely rocks. It's great for small-to-mid-sized sites, is easy to learn, very flexible. I've had a lot of people try to steer me to WordPress, which I like a lot but it's a blog platform made to work as a CMS. ExpressionEngine is a CMS that also works as a blog platform. It's not free, but it is cheap -- around $200, if I recall. You'll find it at http://www.expressionengine.com. For the fee, you get excellent support -- not phone, it's all done by forum, but I've never waited more than 15 minutes for someone from Ellis Labs to answer my question.
There are also a lot of EE developers out there. For instance, I've done some work with NetRaising (www.netraising.com), which specializes in EE for non-profits.
On the commercial side, I like RedDot. On the open-source side, Drupal is very powerful, but often more than you need. Hope this helps...
Depending on the size of your site, ExpressionEngine absolutely rocks. It's great for small-to-mid-sized sites, is easy to learn, very flexible. I've had a lot of people try to steer me to WordPress, which I like a lot but it's a blog platform made to work as a CMS. ExpressionEngine is a CMS that also works as a blog platform. It's not free, but it is cheap -- around $200, if I recall. You'll find it at http://www.expressionengine.com. For the fee, you get excellent support -- not phone, it's all done by forum, but I've never waited more than 15 minutes for someone from Ellis Labs to answer my question.
There are also a lot of EE developers out there. For instance, I've done some work with NetRaising (www.netraising.com), which specializes in EE for non-profits.
On the commercial side, I like RedDot. On the open-source side, Drupal is very powerful, but often more than you need. Hope this helps...
The benefits of a CMS are highly dependent on the purpose you want it for, the environment in which you want to run it, and to a certain extent on how much support you are prepared to provide.
Eg. Wordpress or Mediawiki could function as a CMS for simple sites.
If you wanted something that was a bit more complex yet was easy and quick to set up overnight, then something like Joomla! would be great though in the past Joomla! had a reputation for having a lot of exploitable bugs.
If you wanted a more fully featured CMS with many configuration options and a large developer community then Drupal might be the way to go. There are lots of open-source modules.
My personal preference is for open-source offerings and I like to stay in development environments that are relatively simple .. LAMP = good for me.
As I am currently interested in CMS systems with some vendor backup, my current favourite is an Australian product called MySourceMatrix from a company called Squiz.Net.
Of course, this doesn't even mention the many commercial CMS offerings as well - but big features and support always equals big $$$.
Sometimes forgotten is the language of the developers - I believe that Typo3 is an excellent product but much of the documentation and support seems to be in German and I haven't done much German since high-school, so ... :)
There are some fantastic reviews available here at places like cmsmatrix.org or even wikipaedia - check out the attached links.
Eg. Wordpress or Mediawiki could function as a CMS for simple sites.
If you wanted something that was a bit more complex yet was easy and quick to set up overnight, then something like Joomla! would be great though in the past Joomla! had a reputation for having a lot of exploitable bugs.
If you wanted a more fully featured CMS with many configuration options and a large developer community then Drupal might be the way to go. There are lots of open-source modules.
My personal preference is for open-source offerings and I like to stay in development environments that are relatively simple .. LAMP = good for me.
As I am currently interested in CMS systems with some vendor backup, my current favourite is an Australian product called MySourceMatrix from a company called Squiz.Net.
Of course, this doesn't even mention the many commercial CMS offerings as well - but big features and support always equals big $$$.
Sometimes forgotten is the language of the developers - I believe that Typo3 is an excellent product but much of the documentation and support seems to be in German and I haven't done much German since high-school, so ... :)
There are some fantastic reviews available here at places like cmsmatrix.org or even wikipaedia - check out the attached links.
source(s):
www.cmsmatrix.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems
http://php.opensourcecms.com/general/ratings.php
www.cmsmatrix.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems
http://php.opensourcecms.com/general/ratings.php
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Also have a look at the answers to my earlier question:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/technology-and-internet/what-are-some-situations-in-which-you-would-use-joomla-or-drupal-over-wordpress
One of the answers led me to one I'd never heard of but which looks great: Concrete5. Some reviews here:
http://webwonker.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/trying-out-concrete5/
http://jaipandya.com/2008/07/concrete5-a-nextgen-open-source-cms/
Btw one thing I notices about cmsmatrix.org which everyone recommends is that their Wordpress info is dated 2007. The Wordpress world moves fast, so I don't trust the features list there at all.