Is a CMS what I need?

Cms

[Icinine]

Hello all,

I have a website project to complete and as part of that I would like to add a CMS. I would preferably add something for a non-tech person. I have looked at using CUSHYCMS as I like the in-browser editing of it.
Essentially my question is this; for this project I have used the Gallerific plugin, is there a CMS out there that will basically let the client duplicate an existing Gallerific gallery and put in their own images and thumbnails?
So if at the time of site-launch the client has gallery1,2,3 and 4. Then in 6 months time the client wants to add gallery 5 themselves. Is this possible?

thanks for your time.

[ergophobe]

Hey Icinine,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld! Yes, absolutely that's possible with many different CMS.

I'm not familiar with Gallerific. What's it a plugin for (i.e. is it a CushCMS plugin)? I don't know it, but most CMS have some sort of Gallery plugin (or built in). Which I would choose is based a) on my limited experience of course and b) how important the gallery function is.

Also, I think Surreal is similar to Cushy and another member recently did a nice review here:
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Not recommending one or the other, just pointing out one more option.

[Icinine]

Hi ergophobe,

Thanks for the reply. Gallerific is just a Jquery based gallery. I'm a total noob when it comes to CMS. I will take a look at the Surreal review. Thanks again.

[ergophobe]

I ask because there are some apps whose main goal is to manage galleries (Gallery, Coppermine) and some apps that are more general, but have various gallery plugins/modules (drupal, joomla, expression engine, modX, etc, etc, etc).

[baileytech]

i have used cushy before, and it is fine for changing things but a bit of a drag if you want to add new pages etc.
i would go for joomla everytime. set up correctly you can edit the frontend pages without even seeing the backend once live. and you always have more flexibility for the future of you want to add other things forum/gallery etc