CMS content management system

mestoughton · 05-03-2008, 11:54 PM

Has anybody had success using CMS? I have clients who want personal access to their web sites.

Like who are the leading providers of CMS for a small web design business?...like me!

Thanks all,
Mary

StarLab · 05-04-2008, 05:15 AM

I've been working with CMS's for a few years now. If you have clients who want to be able to update their own content, then a good CMS is the way to go.

I've tried and tested most available but find my favorites are Joomla and WordPress. Drupal is pretty good too, but I've never used it on a production site.

Joomla can have a bit of a learning curve in regards to customizing, but as far as tutoring a client on how to change content, that can be done in about an hour. (providing they aren't total newbies to computer editing)

Wordpress is a little more straight forward. Ganged up with Windows Live Writer, updating content is a snap.

Both have many extensions and templates (themes) available which plug in with little effort.

There are many sites out there which have tutorials for both of these, so there is no lack of online reference. Some hosting companies will pre-install these for you via Fantasico or other setup scripting. (Just check that they provide the latest version of these packages.)

I hope this is what you were asking. Your question was a bit vague.

hrvoje461 · 05-09-2008, 09:09 PM

I have just started using Joomla. I think it is a great CMS and it is free. A lot of extensions are available for free and there is also commercial extensions you can buy to build great websites.
There is some issues about SEO but I think it can be solved.
For sites that I have built with Joomla I used tableless css xhtml templates. A lot of free 1.0.x and 1.5 Joomla templates are available for download too.

&Ingonyama · 05-10-2008, 06:36 AM

The best I have used is probably Symphony: http://symphony21.com The only thing you really need to learn is XSLT and thats pretty easy..

StarLab · 05-10-2008, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by &Ingonyama

The best I have used is probably Symphony: http://symphony21.com The only thing you really need to learn is XSLT and thats pretty easy..

Hmm.. Never heard of that one. Looks interesting. I might have to give this a test run.

Thanks for sharing.