Which CMS Apps do you use?

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Permalink Reply by Ut on July 15, 2008 at 5:26pm

Hi Craig,

I use WP as CMS, I used to mess with some CMSs awhile back - 3-4 years ago, I think - but found that they have a lot of options, bells and whistles and my clients didn't need nor willing to spend time to learn how to use them. And WP is easy to modify design. Of course, if your clients need multi user access, better look into Joomla or http://mu.wordpress.org/ I think.

At the time I was playing with CMSs, manbo was the easiest one to modify designs (among what I tried), but I believe there must be some new CMSs that easy to change designs.

I think you know this site, but just in case somebody reading this and interested about CMSs, here's a good site: http://www.opensourcecms.com/

I hear ppl raving about Joomla, but never try it myself.

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Permalink Reply by Roland Von Ohlsen on August 16, 2008 at 3:58pm

Word Press mainly for clients' blogs and some RSS content feed to their web site. Also, Joomla.

~Roland

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Permalink Reply by Michael Swan on August 29, 2008 at 6:27am

I tend to use Drupal or Joomla as these are the easiest for me to get to grips with. I have been using drupal for a while now.
I am stil getting used to its various features that it has.

With Joomla, i have found that the only let down with it is that some of the modules, plugins and exensions can sometimes be a little complicated to configure.

The other let down with Joomla is that some of the modules, plugins and exensions are commercial and have to be paid for.

With Drupal; they tend to be free and easier to install, configure and use.

I am using both at the moment but the sites are under private development.

Q: On Joomla's front page, how do i change the text "Welcome to the frontpage", as i have changes all articles and titles and text but still that remains and i have struggled to find a way to remove it.

I am more into the website hosting business that website design, but i have my fair share of design to do for some clients, friends and family.

I have many leads and partnerships with website design companies but i am always looking to expand my services to aid website designers.

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Permalink Reply by Judy Asman on September 2, 2008 at 3:58pm

Thanks for the tips from everyone.

My concept does not want to encourage social networking per se (with user profiles and so on), but I'd like for people to have the option to post their own articles.

Is Wordpress.org friendly for this or am I hearing Joomla is the way to go? At any rate, I'm debating between Joomla and Wordpress.org but has anyone heard of Ektron, Inc? I just signed up to do a demo with them on Tuesday.

If you've heard of it, will it be worth it?

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Cox on October 5, 2008 at 4:12pm

WordPress all the way for me. I've already heard the rants about how it's "just a blogging tool, not a CMS" by those who are a bit out of touch with recent WP developments. WP 2.7 is releasing November 10 and it's going to prove a lot of skeptics wrong.

I work with a lot of churches and non-profits and offer the Ministry Theme as a way of utilizing WP as a full-fledged CMS. I don't think you can hand a client anything easier to handle on the backend than WP.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence McDowell on November 25, 2008 at 9:25pm

I personally like Site Grinder. I find thatit allows you to give your customers a unique professional look and the content management solution is great.

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Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on December 28, 2008 at 10:53pm

First answer: I have used from Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, 4Image, GeekLog, B2evolution, phpNuke and few more.. I work with almost all of fantastico scripts..

Second questions: I personally like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress surly WP would be more as a blog the a website..

But hey If you have a server and have few customers I would suggest to Jump into a Social Networking Platform this is where STRAIGHTALK is going this New Year.. I have found a few, Click Bank, Phpiadio, phpfox, HandShake, pepoleArrigate these are Social Platform well exactly as We have here on NING! evrything as this Platform but On your own server and You controling the entire thing for few buck $500.00 for a Full year and 24/7 customer support (phone not e-mails).

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STRAIGHTAlk Norman Flecha

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Permalink Reply by Ralph Mickey on February 5, 2009 at 9:32pm

Sorry to include my comment way after the discussion started. As of now... Joomla 1.5 seems to be the best one out there to me. The community has answers for nearly everything that has happened.

The changing of the templates isn't too bad. I have found that it is easier to find a free template that is close to the design that you want and change it from there.

I have just finished building my first site with joomla 1.5 and I liked using Joomla so much that I just tore down my webmaster site and started redoing it in Joomla 1.5

if you would like to see it... the owner has to edit the content more but here it is:

Melonsaver.com

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Permalink Reply by Miguel Alvarez on February 25, 2009 at 8:30pm

I use Google Friend Connect, integration was easy and it required no installation of anything what so ever. Google Friend Connect can be integrated with any CMS since all that's required is that you paste a snippet Javascript where ever you want the app to be rendered.

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