Best CMS

[TelesMedia]

Hi Guys,

Just wondered what peoples opinions were on best CMS available for clients to use to update websites ?

Regards
anthony

 

[Faevilangel]

Depends on the clients needs and the functionality needed. I do a lot of WordPress work, but there are so many cms', and all will have their features.

 

[K9-Steve]

ExpressionEngine is always a good CMS to use. It's built on CodeIgnitor and jQuery and is extremely extensible.

 

[webhostuk]

Best to use are Wordpress or Joomla.

 

[pbcclements]

I've recently started working with drupal (after a fair bit of wordpress & a little joomla). I find it very good, plenty of video tutorials out there & I've decided that it's my preferred CMS for flexible site design.

For a novice end user though, I'd probably recommend Wordpress.

 

[GravexWebServices]

I started out using Wordpress for client sites, and the clients have been generally positive about it. However, it is hard to make a Wordpress site not look like one. That is my only issue with it.

I used to love ExpressionEngine, until they started charging for it.

 

[swasa11]

Joomla is the best web content management system.

 

[FreshPage Web Design]

The problem with a question like this is that everyone will prefer the CMS that they are used to using.

About the most objective answer I can give is that with CMSs you trade off flexibility against ease of use. I think the general consensus is that you can put Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal in a line with Wordpress being the easiest to use, Drupal the most flexible and Joomla somewhere in between.

 

[tommy]

I use Umbraco - its an open source .NET CMS built on the latest .NET framework and a new version built in ASP.NET MVC3 being released soon.

It has loads of fully extendible plugins which are either paid or free.

I also use umbraco as I can get 5-6 different sites with one install and lock down each site for each client so I have one hosting solution hosting 5-6 sites.

Tom

 

[ukwebhosting]

Hi

Joomla is a learning curve to begin with but is well worth the effort!

Joomla guides

Paul

 

[astutiumRob]

All depends on the client's skillset in using the tools, and the functionality they need - in order of complexity:
WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal

 

[Jue71]

Wordpress the only way to go IMO!

 

[rand00]

Wordpress is the best, then Drupal.

 

[vgregory22]

I love CMS than other themes creator... You can also expand it if you want.

 

[takerootdesign]

You'll get 100 different answers to this question! Everyone prefers there CMS so I might as well come clean and say I'm a Drupal guy! As someone has already mentioned, you generally have a trade off between flexability and usability. Wordpress is very usable but I don't feel it's got away from it's blogging platform roots enough yet. I think Drupal wins on flexability but this comes with a fairly steep learning curve.

So to sum up: I don't think you can say there is a 'best' CMS, but there usually is a best CMS for a particular website/usage.

 

[REBOOTTHAT]

Wordpress is easy, so long as you know a little PHP you can do lots of stuff with it.

 

[DateinaDash]

I think WordPress is the best free CMS. It will do everything you need, it's easy to use and theres lots of skins, mods and help available for it.

 

[Bourne mouth]

Joomla and magento are the best CMS i have ever used...if any other plz suggest me.

 

[Mike tells it like it is]

I just signed up for a free trial to that square space just out of curiosity.

Used in conjunction with other graphic design software such as adobe suite or even serif or some of the open source such as gimp and inkscape I reckon you can get good results.

The existing templates and layouts are good and can be modified to an extent without knowing any code.

For those that do know html, css ,php etc its a good piece of kit I reckon even designing for other people.

for a small business with some design ability who want to do their own simple site its great. doesn't seem to have any e-commerce functionality built in though.