Help choosing a CMS system

Hi everyone.

My website is at http://www.feelgoodvibes.com

I am ready to really move on things, and would like to get a CMS in place.

To give you an idea of the type of layout and functionality I am looking for, you can check out conscious one. Only feel good vibes will be more content, less advertising.

I would like to have flash movies playing on certain sections of the site, and would like to be able to change them with ease.

Besides that, here are the main things I am looking for:

1. A front page with similar functionality to conscious one.

2. The ability to create musician and author pages, which will look similar to a myspace page. So, upon collecting the data needed from each author or musician, I need to be able to enter their bio, pictures, if we could have a song playing-- that is a plus, featured links, featured downloads from that author/musician... stuff like that.

3. The ability to send flash e-cards and flash movies from the site, and the ability to add new ones fairly easily.

If people would be able to login and customize the front page of feel good vibes-- that would be a serious plus, but is not a must.

http://www.joomla.org/ Looks really cool, and I think this may be what i am looking for. Others have recomended php nuke-- which doesnt look quite as good as joomla.

Any suggestions?

I would also need someone to install it, and set things up. Where is the best place to go for that?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give on the CMS and other things. =)

 

go for joomla..

 

Haha, yeah, the more i play with the demo here the more impressed i am.

I can design the "modules" myself. But i do need someone to setup the joomla part for me. Any idea on where to go for that? craigslist?

 

joomla normally included in your preinstalled script in your cpanel.easy to install.

 

have you check out http://www.opensourcecms.com/

there are a whole list of cms that they have installed.
so you can preview, look at the demo of a list of opensource cms.

 

Definitely go for joomla.... its probably one of the Best CMS on the net... not totally perfect but what is

 

what forums software can be used with joomla?/

 

If you have the money get someone to build you a custom built cms, then it will do exacely what you want :;

 

Take a look at textpattern, it has loads of plugins to which you may find useful.

 

Why not considered a donation?? Take a look at my sig, will do anything to help you and the disabled

 

Joomla is the best CMS ever, just pay attention for update patch so your site won't get hacked

 

isnt it secure enough not to get hacked? is it really that easy to get hacked that u have to get constant patches/

 

Another vote for Joomla here, easy to set up and use, lots of mods and templates availabe and a large development community.

 

I'll second TextPattern

 

Just for prevention against joomla security hole, overall Joomla is a secure CMS

 

Couldn't you always just not put any reference to the CMS you are using on the site, or do you have to because of the license?

 

If it's open source you usually have to have a link back to the portal.

 

I had open source in mind. I was not aware of that. I have seen a lot of sites that didn't have the linkback and were running opensource cms's. Might not be a requirement.

 

That is not the requirements, clearly stated, you can change them as you like, as long as you know howto.

 

thx ..