General question about CMS's

[anon]

What are some of the more refined and stable CMS's out there?

I want to look into them to expand on.

Rob

[Boby]

The greatest CMS ever is Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com/).
It's very complex and you can do almost anything you want. The only bad thing is you need at least a month to learn how to use it. :p

I use MODx (http://modxcms.com/) for my personal site (still in development) and installed it for some customers I had.
It's very flexible, easy, stable, and you don't have to hack the core code to expand it, just add snippets, plugins, chunks, etc. It uses AJAX, valid markup and stylesheets.
This is my recommandation for a good CMS!
My post about MODx on my homepage:
http://www.frozenminds.com/moving-to-modx.html

Etomite (http://www.etomite.org/) is another nice CMS. It's the actually the starting point for MODx.

I've heared a lot of good words about Xaraya (http://www.xaraya.com/), but I have never tried it out.

You probably also heared about Drupal (http://drupal.org/). It's OK, could be much better. I've tried it two or three times but it never satisfied me.

Don't bother with Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/) & Co. The others are much better.

Boby

[David]

I'm not going to claim to be expert on Typo3, but I think it is one of those things that is a "dream" to a PHP programmer, but not so easy to learn. I built a tickets site (sells tickets) for a customer a while ago, and it seamed like there was so much you had to do to accomplish simple tasks, and as Bobby stated, it takes a month to learn the admin. This would not be good for a customer who is not technically inclined, and just wants a simple admin interface for their site.

I have also tried Mambo and Drupal.

I just find that CMSs often ADD to the development time, and sometimes you get bogged down making small changes, because the CMS is not designed to do something the way you need it to do.

I personally have never had a good experience with CMSs, but I'm sure there are others who have. :)

[vegabond]

Robert, May be that can be help you: Opensourcecms (http://www.opensourcecms.com)


Thanks
Shabu anower

[anon]

Thanks, Boby, David & Shabu.

Boby, do you really think it would require a months time? I kind of pick up things pretty quickly. ;)

Are you speaking from your own standpoint, or just the casual surfer?

Rob

[Boby]

Well, you won't probably need a month but almost to learn how it works and how you can create your pages.
I've never had the patience to stick with it a month. I played with it about 2 weeks on my local PC, but could not use it on my webserver because it needs more memory allocated and my last hoster dissagreed.

As I know you, you can build a simple homepage withing 2 weeks, but certainly not with all features and blah blah blah.
The one month learning time was from a documentation file of Typo3 for an average user.
If you have enough time to spend on it, and your hoster allows you at least 16MB for PHP it's worth.

In my opinion it's an incredible CMS, but if your homepage is not really something "big" I say it's to heavy and you can use something else that does the same thing with less ressources and much faster.

You know what the best CMS actually is? It's the one you like most. Try some of them out and you will know it ;)

Boby

[anon]

thanks for response Boby, I appreciate it.

I am downloading typo3. I see there is an install (WAMP) based on XAMPP

may i will be able to try this out in the near future.

thanks.

[bobby9101]

i havent tried xoops but heard it was good