Suggestions for Content Managers

[Fortune Hunter]

I am looking for a content management solution for a web site I am building. I have never used or implemented one before. Ideally this content manager would be free, i.e. open source or cheap to purchase. Something that is easy to use and very easy to install and set up. I don't have a ton of experience in this area so I would love to hear what other people use.

I generally develop in Dreamweaver so if anyone knows of an extension that perhaps installs a content management solution that would be awesome as well.

[mayest]

There is a "Content Usage and Management" forum here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

It isn't terribly active, though.

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you. Since my hosting account is currently on Windows, I've been experimenting with DotNetNuke (it is free). At the moment, I have it installed in a VMWare virtual machine. The nice thing about it is that it uses the free Visual Studio Web Developer Express IDE.

You might also look at Joomla and Drupal. The OpenSourceCMS site will let you try out a ton of different CMS's without installing anything on your PC.

[John_Blake]

Joomla and drupal are just two of CMSs you could use.

[Fortune Hunter]

Joomla and drupal are just two of CMSs you could use.

John:

Do you have any that you have used or really like and would recommend?

[benevolent001]

Drupal is the easier to start with , you can get yur website up with that within few hours or minutes.

Drupal has got lot of modules ( addon functionalities) and its free OS

I would recommend you it for sure as a start

[justgowithit]

From another thread on this topic....

OpensourceCMS [opensourcecms.com]

[Fortune Hunter]

This is great stuff, if others have suggestions please drop them in the thread. I am thinking all of us could benefit from others experiences with these packages.

[Sharpseo]

I like Drupal over Joomla, it's especially good for community-type sites. I've also been looking into ExpressionEngine lately, seems very nice. It's not OS, but pretty reasonably priced.

[Fortune Hunter]

I like Drupal over Joomla, it's especially good for community-type sites

Also if there are suggestions for CMS packages that aren't necessarily for community sites, but sites that will simply have a ton of content and you want to make it easy to upload new articles would be good. I haven't checked out either of these yet, but they may work very well for that purpose as well.

My thought is if I had a site on making, buying, and using widgets that I could write the content and articles and with the right CMS system have a non-web developer upload all the content. Someone like a virtual assistant.

[reprint]

Thats the point of having a CMS. You can also have your website visitors create content that you review before publishing. I use wordpress as a CMS even though its known as a blog but it is very simple and works very well. I also use Joomla and have found that great for content sites. Drupal has better user management so it has the upper hand for community sites.
Wordpress has minimal learning curve. Joomla and Drupal have a medium learning curve if you want SEO and customise though you can have a default website up in next to no time.

[trooper27]

Finally someone mentioning the almighty WP. This the (censored), man!