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Which CMS is better ? I think this is purely subjective topic. And you'll get different answers from different people. Some people will recommend based on popularity. Some will recommend based on theme and extensions/plugins availability. But it all depends on individual view. We all have different needs and CMS needs to chosen depending on your needs.Choose CMS which suits your comfort. Sometimes all we want is simple posting capability and spam protection, designs etc. In that case, choose...
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I hear Mambo is an excellent CMS when it comes to managing websites, and I thought Nucleus CMS was more of a blog CMS than of a whole website.
For blog CMS's, I would recommend WordPress or MovableType.
When I found Mambo I stop of creating my own codes. Now I use the CMS to all my sites, just editing the templates and adapting the components and modules to my needs (however, almost all your needs are covered for the existing components).
Previously, I tried PHPNuke, but I found it so complicated that I preferred to use my own codes.
I'm not a huge fan of CMS's. I have always sort of felt that by using a CMS you end up having a site that looks like someone else's. Guess in reality that doesn't have to be that way if you spent time on customizing the templates, etc. But then again I'd rather spend that time creating my own code.
Anyways for blog I have used WordPress which is really neat system and seems to be constantly improving.
Xoops and Mambo are my favorite Content Management Systems.
You can adapt booth systems like you want.
Blogger is decent if you don't mind having ads on your blog. But I hear MT is good and the newest version (3.1) has just been released. I don't use a CMS but I hear MT is good.
QUOTE I'm not a huge fan of CMS's. I have always sort of felt that by using a CMS you end up having a site that looks like someone else's. same here. and agreed. i think i prefer designing and creating my own websites. sometimes CMSs make things more complicated than they need to be. and yeah, MT is excellent! the installation part was a hefty bit to get through for me, mostly because the installation instructions weren't written well. but that was MT 3.0, maybe 3.1 has changed.
i don't use any content management system. I usually buy the pre-built template and edit it to become my site. It will save more time and site look much professional. Just my 2 cents. I don't change any color structure once the site is done. No need to use cms.
I haven't used any CMS's myself, but here is a page with quite a few listed, with a short description. Perhaps it will help
http://www.clueful.com.au/cgi-bin/cmsdirec...:Free%20systems Latest Entries
Which CMS is better ? I think this is purely subjective topic. And you'll get different answers from different people. Some people will recommend based on popularity. Some will recommend based on theme and extensions/plugins availability. But it all depends on individual view. We all have different needs and CMS needs to chosen depending on your needs.
Choose CMS which suits your comfort. Sometimes all we want is simple posting capability and spam protection, designs etc. In that case, choose cms based on ease of use and availability of your needs. Don't choose cms cause you saw some good themes of it on other sites. Choose based on how much you're comfortable with it. To find good CMS for yourself, you've to experiment with some CMS. Wordpress- wordpress CMS is perfect for bloggin needs. If you want to start with blogging and article posting. Then this is good cms. It has lot's of plugins and themes. You'll find it simple and powerful. Drupal- This is more of advanced and comes up with lots of plugins and themes. Not suitable for newcomers to CMS. It has steep learning curve. It takes some time for you to be comfortable with it. But in fact it is more feature packed CMS than anything else in market. Joomla- Like drupal, it is also powerful with features. Lot's of themes and forum integration available. And most of the hosting providers do support this script in fantastico or scriptaculous. If you don't want to use drupal for complexity then choose joomla. It is bit easier than drupal. There are few more that i would like to mention like textpatter, movable type and mephisto. Expression web is also cool CMS, check the demo on their site. You can try all the top suggest CMS for yourself and then decide.
I'd say for a powerful and highly customized site, go with Drupal. There are tons of high traffic websites that use Drupal, so there shouldn't be many problems on Drupal's side if you have a high traffic site. There are also a ton of themes that look professional, which is nice. The only thing I don't like about Drupal is with many addons and plugins you have to install more than one plugin to get the original one to install. This can make you install 10+ plugins to get a simple video plugin to work.
I'm currently using e107, but I don't like it that much. The support is quite terrible, I have had quite a few questions go unanswered, and the few that got responded to took a while. There haven't been any security updates (or updates at all) in the time that I have had the CMS installed for (~8 months) which makes me wonder how they are keeping up with security. The admin panel for e107 is nice, and things can get added very fast. Some of the themes are bad (namely the default ones), but there are tons of sites where you can get free e107 themes that look decent.
I'm for Joomla CMS. It's easy to make a simple website. Here's a website from my buddy: www.tigrevski.com As you can see it's using Joomla and as he says it's very easy to use.
Datalife engine isn't on the list,put i prefer it.
Have you tried Joomla or Drupal? They're both pretty good.
Mambo is pretty much the same as Joomla as far as I'm aware. For blogs Wordpress is by far the best system in my opinion. |
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