Which is the best Web Content Management system to use

Well, the title says it all..

To build and maintain several sites.

Please tell me what experiences you have had with different kind of systems

Thanks
'Kent

 

I started with Postnuke then tried PHPNuke, PHPwebsite, Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo and a few others but have pretty much settled on Joomla for the last few years since it was born from Mambo.

 

I've worked with Joomla, ModX, Website Baker, Wordpress( and a few others to a smaller extent) but at the end of the day I've settled on Drupal as the best of them (for me).

 

I Used Joomla,Wordpress and datalife and i'll suggest to you datalife engine ...it's the prefered for me ^^

 

Depends on what you're building.
Drupal and Wordpress always comes up of course

 

wordpress is good for small sites but it is not a very powerful CMS.
Drupal and joomla are much more powerful and do the trick for more dynamic sites.

 

Lol, their website looks shit and is full of ads, no thank you.

 

Joomla all the way for me. There are so many great adons and the SEO factor is huge. From small to large you can make them look unique.

 

It all depends on what type of site you want and what type of plugins you want. Are you building a blog type site with articles, do you want a community and allow people to sign up, do you want a forum plugged into the site, do you want members to add their own reviews, comment and rate each other reviews and the list goes on and on...........

Do you want a real commercial grade site, how much support do you want and or need, are you looking for free solutions or do you want a commercial solution? If you want to buy a management system, how much money do you want to spend?

Here is a list of CMS's. Not all of the systems on the market are listed on this page. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems


Some of the popular free ones are drupal, joomla and wordpress. There are pros and cons to all of them.

If you are looking for a CMS that will plug into a forum, check this page it offers several bridges that will work with the simple machines forum (SMF) - http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?bridges

Before you just up and install a CMS, I suggest that you write down what kind of site you want to build and what will be the primary plug ins.

Do you want a forum? If so, which forum software do you want to use, then find a CMS that will plug into it.

Do you want a gallery? If so, find out which CMS has the best gallery solution.

Do you want a ratings and commenting system?

Then there are CMSs that are designed for a certain forum, such as http://www.invisionpower.com/community/board/ Then you can just plug an arcade and gallery right into your site.

Subdreamer is one such CMS - http://www.subdreamer.com/ This is a commercial CMS that has lots of built in fetures. This CMS has a picture gallery solution and is supposed to plug straight into VB, IPB, phpbb and smf - http://www.subdreamer.com/features So you can have an instant community forum.


The most important questions and answers are:

What kind of site do you want to build
Free or commercial solutions
What plugins do you want

Once you have those questions and answers solved, then pick the CMS that will best fit what you need.


My personal opinion - Joomla is about the worst one you can go with. It is not very secure, their support forums are run by heavy handed admins and asking for support is more like begging for support. When you install joomla, you have to chmod just about every folder so its writable be everyone - which poses a security risk. The modifications by the joomla fans are not tested for security holes by the joomla core developers.

For my sites I went with wordpress and disabled new members from being able to register. Then I posted links to my forum where they can sign up and post stuff.

 

Besides being the best you need to look which has a future too.

phpNuke it was the king some time ago...now it's not anymore. Mambo is slipping down...CMSmadesimple is going also like phpWebsite.

The kings now are Drupal, Jomla and Wordpress (I'm talking about the open source and free ones).

Checkout this study: Who are the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) market leaders in 2008?

 

i prefer wordpress and joomla

http://opensourcecms.com/ is a very good site to check all opensource Content-Management-Systems

 

PHP in my view is the best..

 

for blogging try wordpress and for portal try drupal or mambo, joomla is easy but not for beginners.
www.opensourcecms.com is a site where u can read about all cms available and u can try demo version.

 

I prefer Joomla

 

my vote to joomla,definitly

 

Nice read and thanks ~kev~ for the comprehensive post.. i'm taking a look at subdreamer now

 

Your welcome.

In a lot of these forums you will get the typical rubber stamp, "joomla" or "wordpress" reply. With only two solutions being presented, no one can make an educated decision.

Some of the better CMS solutions are going to be commercial, but not always. But then again, it depends on what you are going to do. Some CMSs have good forum solutions, some have good gallery, some have good review solutions.

About 2 years ago I wanted to open a community site with a forum, gallery and articles. Most of the replies I got was "go with joomla." I later found out what a piece of junk, drama filled community, poorly run support forum joomla really has. After spending about 6 months building and maintaining a joomla community, I gave up. One of the main problems, joomla does not have quality forum solution. I had to use bridges that would break with either the forum or joomla was updated.

My site was based around a forum, with joomla being used to publish articles. I achieved my best results by dropping joomla and going with VBulletin for the forum.

 

I would suggest Joomla.

 

Hi Kev,
Didn't you try vBlog for publishing articles (+ vBuleltin forum) ?
After looking at many, I thought that's a decent solution. At least it won't break up in middle because both products are of same company.

I thought WordPress + vBulletin forum is also good solution, but it's unreliable because no one knows when the 3 rd party developer stops updating the bridge.

Do you have any other ideas on mind with your experience ?

I am looking for some solution that supports: Articles (Blog) + Forum + Gallery (possibly) + Reviews plugin (not necessary) + SEO + Can handle high traffic

 

I'm thinking of the following setups myself:

• Articles (Blog): ExpressionEngine
• Forum: vBulletin
• Bridge: aMember Pro (for vB and EE to share the same users database)
• Gallery: Menalto's Gallery 2, or PhotoPost Pro (I'm inclined towards G2, if aMember can bridge this with vB.
  Awaiting response here: https://amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8496
• Reviews: ReviewPost (not quite sure what features you have in mind for Reviews plugin though)
• SEO: vBSEO