ergophobe - 5:45 am on Apr 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Beth!

Have you noticed the What is Drupal NOT Good At? [webmasterworld.com] thread also in this forum? Don't get me wrong, I'm the #1 Drupal booster around here. But I always warn people that the strength of Drupal is its power and flexibility. But I think of it more as a development platform than as a user-friendly CMS. There's a lot of tlak about improving the usability, but unless your coding skills are pretty good and your clients are a bit tech savvy, I would hesitate to use drupal for what sounds like a simple brochure site. If you want to have complex content types, a community site, recreate Facebook or Digg, then Drupal is amazing. But it can still be a hassle.(see [drupal.org...]

Someone recently mentioned Concrete 5 here the other and I had a look at that - it claims to be a very friendly CMS for the end user (haven't had a chance to test it yet, but hope to soon). Also have a look at ModX, CMS Made Simple and some others like that which are very able for less complex sites. Many others, I just more or less picked those names out at random.

And of course, simpler still is Wordpress, but have a look at some of the others first.

As for photo galleries, many CMS have them, but Gallery (menalto one) is pretty easy for the end users to just navigate to where they want to add a picture or a subgallery and add it, with a title, description, friendly URL. Taht said, a car dealer might find a shopping cart script that allows multiple product images to be the way to go.