Are there any CMS's for designers?

Hi

I'm a free lance web developer, like a lot of you.

I'm looking to start doing it officially and I want to start finding clients locally in the small town that I live in. I want to make a website that captures and tells people what service I can offer to people.

The thing is, I primarily develop websites using cms's, I'm more of a marketer/designer than a coder.

I was wondering if you know of any CMS's or scripts that are good for building a website for web designers, developers, and IT people.

let me know

thanks

 

u must start with joomla and wordpress. u will see many ppl need blog ( wordpres) and some needs site (joomla) so joomla and wordpress will help u alot.

 

You might also take a look at CMS Made Simple. It's easy for web designers to use.

 

I have a graphic designer friend and she's using ModxCms, I think it's not hard to learn it

 

I suggest Wordpress and joomla, they are hot and perfect .

 

Wordpress and Joomla are both pretty easy to learn and not too difficult to develop templates with. They both also have hundreds (thousands?) of existing templates available to use.

 

you can use Theeta CMS Version 0.0. it is easy to use and manage. It is a complete web development solution.

 

Use JOOMLA or u can go for WORDPRESS

 

There's a lot of choices. I could give better advice if you could say more about what your needs are, and what your technical level is.

Many people have their personal favorites, but ultimately you'll have the best chance of getting to the best solution for you if you keep in mind that different CMS solutions are best for different kinds of users, and for different kinds of sites.

Joomla and Wordpress certainly have the buzz in the designer community and are very capable, as long as you don't need to do much custom database work. Joomla you have to host yourself; Wordpress you can use in a hosted form at wordpress.com, but you don't have much flexibility there.

Drupal is a good solution if you're more of a developer at heart, rather than a designer.

There's a commercial product, Expression Engine, that many designers like.

There's a variety of very simple CMS systems that just give you the ability to edit site content from within a browser. Look at CushyCMS or LightCMS, for example.

My startup has built a new hosted CMS, tuned specificially for the needs of professional web designers who need more capability in terms of easily customized databases. Check it out at www.webvanta.com.

There's no single answer for every designer/developer and every task, but there's a lot of great choices.

 

Thanks for the reply's guys, but I think you missed the question.

I was asking for a cms that is good for the initial developer's website.

I've been using joomla and wordpress for going on 5 years now.

 

modx is a goo solution, it's very flexible

 

I use Frog CMS a lot and I highly recommend it if you can appreciate the simplicity of it. You may need to be more of a coder though, possibly not.

 

CMS Made Simple - templates are made from HTML+Smarty (place holders for dynamic parts) and pure CSS stylesheets. For each module (News, Menu, Search) - you have a separated template made in HTML+Smarty. You can append your stylesheets to templates, as many as your like in the admin panel. And you can also define styles that editors in WYSIWYG are allowed to use. No messy code.

 

Drupal - Drupal