Choosing the correct CMS - CMS List

Here is a list of cms's for new comers

Wordpress

Wordpress is by far the most famous blogging content management system available. It was meant for blogging but with a few tweaks can be used for websites.

The cms has over 1000 free templates available for use. It is arguably the best content management system if you are looking to start a blog. If you have experience with php then it perhaps the best cms for anything. It uses a database to store information. Search engine friendly cms.

Drupal

Chosen by the IBM website as the best content management system available. The problem is the steep learning curve. If you want to harness the true power of Drupal you will have to invest time in learning it.

It is ideal for single and community based websites. Not so helpful if you want to start a blog. Template list is growing but there are not that many available. Search engine friendly cms.

CMsimple

A relatively unknown but very good content management system for small websites with less than 1000 pages of information. Easy to use and very small in size. Uses a flat file to store the articles and that is why if you have a website more than 1000 pages you would not want to use it because it would slow down. Pretty search engine friendly.

Snews

Snews is a very good content management system with some very professional looking templates available for free. Snews uses Apache mod re write to provide you with search engine friendly urls.

It is a news styled cms. So if you want a website with news like captions then this cms is for you.

Joomla

A very popular content management system used for community websites with loads of free professional looking templates. The only problems are that

1. Not very search engine friendly
2. You cannot link earlier articles to later ones

PostNuke

This is another very popular content management system. It comes with a WYSIWYG editor so that you do need any HTML knowledge to run your manage your own website.

Postnuke uses a database and is search engine friendly.

For user reviews about different content management systems try http://www.opensourcecms.com/. It provides user reviews about many many content managment systems

Conclusion

Before using a content management system ask yourself what you need from the content management system. Here are some questions you should have answered before you go about searching for a content management system

1. Do you want a SEO cms?
2. Do you need blogging software?
3. Are you planning on building a community website?
4 Is your website going to very big?
5. Do you want to build a website or blog?
6. Are you using a shared server or dedicated server
7. Do you have any html or php knowledge?

Only by answering these questions can you choose the appropriate cms. No cms is bad or good. It depends on your needs. And the website url provided above will give you a feel for what users have to say about different content management systems which when combined with answers to the above posed questions provides the best way of choosing a content management system. Good luck!

 

Very useful ,thanks for your share. REP added

 

Nice work!, thanks a lot for your sharing

 

it's good job dude.

in my experience , joomla rocks the others

 

Thanks for the list. I prefer Drupal over the others. I think the "steep learning curve" is made worse if you are used to Joomla/Mambo. I do think the learning curve is less for those who are new to a CMS, because they don't have to "re-learn" things.

The "out of the box" SEO advantages that Drupal has should not be underestimated. For a beginner, it would be hard to achieve the same level of SEO with other content management systems in my opinion.

 

Very clear summary, Tx.

 

Thanks, it's a useful list

You forgot cutenews

 

Thanks dude!

Don't forget Typo3, which is a fast growing powerful and extandable system!

 

Thanks! That's a good list for beginners.

 

Good List.. Will help the beginners a lot...

 

I was planing to build a personel blog but did not liked wordpress etc they looked to overloaded , I'll try the CMsimple.

 

I didnt know about Drupal
I must give it a try
thanks

 

what about Vbadvacned CM

 

Its a Addon for vBulletin forum.

 

I'd add ExpressionEngine to the list.

 

I'm exploring Drupal now. It's definitely my second choice... maybe even my first later on

I highly recommend TYPO3 if you are not a PHP developer at the moment!

 

Nice post to the OP.

Does anyone have a 'BEST' list of SEO addons or patches or mambots or whatever theyre called for JOOMLA ?

It seems to be just a huge list of modules on the joomla extensions site, and none of them stand out?

 

It's good list for newbie in CMS. Thanks!

About Joomla. With some components might be improving SEO system. On that moment have more than 2400 components for this system and J! looks very powerful.

 

I agree, when you install openSEF Joomla becomes very SEO friendly.

 

When I started to investigate content management systems in order to choose one I used opensourcecms.com to play with demo sites and see features, usability etc. More open source cms there then one may think... I end up with a list, and then search to see how much support is online for the cms on the list. The 3 finalists, not surprisingly: Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress. The winer for me is Drupal, and I like that the initiator is European...