What do you think is the best PHP Open Source CMS?
Friday October 31, 2008
CMS Critic says that Drupal is the best, with Joomla! and CMS Made Simple tied for second. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? I've never used CMS Made Simple, but I do like Drupal a bit better than Joomla! It just seemed a little bit easier to use to me.
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To be honest Drupal is the only full fledged CMS I’ve experimented with, but it just seems to be one of those things where add-ons and community support go along way.
As usually, it depends what you’d to do with it.
Typo3 for big projects, ModX for smaller projects that need highly configurable options.
I’ve only tried Zen-Cart for e-commerce CMS. With well established knowledge of HTML and CSS and a half years worth of OO programming with Java, i found it rather easy to use the over-ride system and customize the PHP as a some what novice. Very powerful system and free.
Has anyone else used Zen-Cart and can compare it to other e-commerce CMS.
I use Joomla for nearly all of my projects and it is not always the easiest bear to wrestle with but it is also extremely flexible and powerful and the development community is extremely active and helpful.
Drupal has improved a lot in the last year or so, but it still lacks a lot in terms of convenience and user-friendliness compared to Joomla!
Even with a lot of improvements and installable features, Drupal is still a programmers’ CMS. It’s more an Open Source response to ASP.
For years, Microsoft was behind the curve when it came to CMS. A new marketing strategy has emerged from Microsoft which makes the power of .NET available without much experience in programming.
It’s leaving the OS CMS systems in the dust for convenience and power.
I prefer Joomla because I’ve found it is more user-friendly for my clients. I spend less time in training them how to maintain their site, and get fewer support calls than with any other CMS I have used.
I think WordPress can be used as an excellent content management system. It is highly customisable, extensible and very easy to use, unlike some of the other mentioned CMS’s.
Although I use it myself as the platform for my company’s blog at Website Design Liverpool, it can also be used as a complete website creation and content management system and has been used in this way, very successfully by many companies on the web.
There are several articles on the web concerning this, just do a search in Google for ‘wordpress as a cms’.
WordPress gets my vote.
Kind Regards
Gareth Daine
Website Design Liverpoool
It really depends on what you need. Your question is like saying “What car is best?” You need to say if you drive once a week or once a year, are single or have a 10-child family, and so on. As a result, a mini, prius, or people mover are all the most suitable, but depend on your needs.
Options out their vary a lot in terms of focus, and therefore are targeted towards simpler or more advanced skill sets in (a) development and (b) content management.
For instance, SilverStripe allows more sophisticated developers build powerful websites/apps, all the while allowing very non-technical content managers be self-sufficient in managing their website, a perspective shared by the judges of the Open Source CMS judges
WordPress is definitely the best.
I love Drupal, though I must admit at first it was ver overwhelming. It wasn’t until I took another look at it this year that it seemed to be alot friendlier and also there was a huge community around it.