What's the best CMS to use?

[inspiremydesign]

In terms of flexibility of template design, ease of use, ad-free, fuctionality...

Which CMS is most recommended to use if I need to update 1000s of pages at one time.

Ocportal.com appears to tick all the boxes for everything, its also open sourced, but what other contents management systems do you think would be most suitable for me?

All contributions are welcome

Many Thanks,

Naweed S.

 

[serendipitybusiness]

Wordpress my my favourite at the moment. I have posted why here

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=95177

Good Luck

 

[dataferret]

If you want a simple CMS which any customer can use you cannot really go wrong with Websitebaker.

If you want flexibility and extensibility with a simple templating system there are lots to choose from but Drupal is by far the best, followed closely by wordpress, typo3 and a million others. If you switch off the shopping cart functions, even zencart can be a good CMS system.

Choosing the CMS system will depend on the site, purpose and what you need it to do. You also need to consider what level of expertise the people updating it will have and also if it is purely an information website, an ecommerce site or a social media site with member interaction.

For extensibility, clean code and reliability you cannot go far wrong with Drupal and once you get used to using it you probably will not use anything else.

 

[stugster]

Naweed,

Your question is like asking which is the best car. Which is the best computer. Which is the best football player.

Everyone has different opinions, and as far as I'm aware, there isn't a "best" outright winner.

I personally love CMS Made Simple.

 

[sandforthintl]

Hi,

Look at Joomla, which is definately the leader in CMS as testiment to the number of extensions, templates etc available.

Check out some of my sites that I have had built www.freewebs.com/websitenetwork which I use to showcase the sites, although one or two are down or not actually using Joomla.

Hope it helps

JB

 

[inspiremydesign]

Naweed,

Your question is like asking which is the best car. Which is the best computer. Which is the best football player.

Everyone has different opinions, and as far as I'm aware, there isn't a "best" outright winner.

I personally love CMS Made Simple.

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Hi, thanks for your reply!

I had that on my list of choice but only problem is, which files am I supposed to download, there seems to be so many for the latest versions.

 

[GeorgeKing]

Look at Joomla, which is definately the leader in CMS as testiment to the number of extensions, templates etc available.

I too would go for Joomla. It is also open source and if you are prepared to spend a small amount you can pick up some fantastic templates.

 

[F1SEO]

MODx is our favourite CMS by a country mile. We've tried others such as Joomla, which is a bit of a dinosaur imo, and Drupal - good but you need to a lot of programming time to make it sing. MODx in many respects just as good, it's seems to be a faster engine too, and SEO is strong right from the start. It's fully customizable and we have a development team constantly building and customizing website with it. Sites with 5 pages, 500 pages, or 5000 pages are within its power: it's a complete solution to acheiving a site that expands as your business expands. I highly recommend it. (it's open source too)

 

[WHUK]

Joomla! is the most reliable and powerful Open Source CMS available for free. It is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database system. Joomla is used to build simple personal webpages and blogs to complex corporate and powerful online web applications. It is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. The users love the simplicity of Joomla with its Powerful features. You can host the Joomla website on both Linux as well as Windows hosting.

 

[F1SEO]

Joomla! is the most reliable and powerful Open Source CMS available for free. It is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database system. Joomla is used to build simple personal webpages and blogs to complex corporate and powerful online web applications. It is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. The users love the simplicity of Joomla with its Powerful features. You can host the Joomla website on both Linux as well as Windows hosting.

That might have been true 3yrs ago.

MODx, Drupal, CMSMS, and Expression Engine are the leaders in powerful CMS systems today.

 

[wise]

You dont need a CMS as such. You can simply install software such as visualedit onto a webserver and you can then update ANY website or create new pages etc.

However you may wish to get someone to design a template page that you can base new pages on / paste content into. I would not rely on a CMS for your entire website unless you needed all the extra functionality.

 

[inspiremydesign]

That's something to think about, because I use dreamweaver and photoshop to design the template and convert it to HTML .. but the problem was making the database and everything.. that proved to be difficult so the easy way around it is to use a CMS.. it wont be a static website as such because it will be a rich feature content website / social media / shopping cart, something which customers can keep coming back to instead of a static website with just information.

I just wanted to know what the best cms there is, as I've installed so many that its getting completely pointless now.

Thanks for all your contributions

Naweed S.