Modx — http://modxcms.com/
MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework with Powerful Features that help you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.
Joomla — http://www.joomla.org/
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
WordPress — http://wordpress.org/
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
I would use MODx because it enables you to have as much control over you site as possible, but that is just me.
This is almost like asking, “how long is a piece of string?” because the best CMS is the one that most closely matches your needs. Everyone has different needs and every site requires different things.
My favourite CMS is Mambo (http://mambo-foundation.org/), which is the CMS from which Joomla forked. It is an excellent all-round CMS with an active community and many 3rd party extensions that extend its functionality. Most templates and extensions that work with Joomla 1.0.x versions also work with Mambo. It is one of the world’s most popular free CMS but perhaps not talked about as much now as it used to be.
Drupal is an excellent CMS and is especially good for developers as it acts more like a framework than an out-of-the-box CMS. If you have some PHP coding skills then Drupal is a great system to use.
WordPress is a great blogging platform and it is possible to extend it so that it acts more like a CMS, but it is not in the same league as purpose-built content management systems. It is very easy to code additional functionality and has a lot of good plugins available. Because it is not a fully-featured CMS it is also easier to configure and use than any of the CMS’s that have been mentioned. It is also very easy to get pretty URL’s with WordPress as these are handled from the application itself and do not require you to understand htaccess rules.
There are hundreds of CMS to choose from so don’t rely on anyone’s opinion of what the best CMS is. You really need to decide what you want your site to do and what features and functionality are important to you, then do your research and find the system that most closely matches what you need.
That will depend on how far do you need to extend it, but, in my list, Joomla and WordPress.
References :
http://mcloide.wordpress.com
http://www.mcloide.com
Ok here we go:
Modx — http://modxcms.com/
MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework with Powerful Features that help you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.
Joomla — http://www.joomla.org/
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
WordPress — http://wordpress.org/
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
I would use MODx because it enables you to have as much control over you site as possible, but that is just me.
-FireDart
References :
This is almost like asking, “how long is a piece of string?” because the best CMS is the one that most closely matches your needs. Everyone has different needs and every site requires different things.
My favourite CMS is Mambo (http://mambo-foundation.org/), which is the CMS from which Joomla forked. It is an excellent all-round CMS with an active community and many 3rd party extensions that extend its functionality. Most templates and extensions that work with Joomla 1.0.x versions also work with Mambo. It is one of the world’s most popular free CMS but perhaps not talked about as much now as it used to be.
Drupal is an excellent CMS and is especially good for developers as it acts more like a framework than an out-of-the-box CMS. If you have some PHP coding skills then Drupal is a great system to use.
WordPress is a great blogging platform and it is possible to extend it so that it acts more like a CMS, but it is not in the same league as purpose-built content management systems. It is very easy to code additional functionality and has a lot of good plugins available. Because it is not a fully-featured CMS it is also easier to configure and use than any of the CMS’s that have been mentioned. It is also very easy to get pretty URL’s with WordPress as these are handled from the application itself and do not require you to understand htaccess rules.
There are hundreds of CMS to choose from so don’t rely on anyone’s opinion of what the best CMS is. You really need to decide what you want your site to do and what features and functionality are important to you, then do your research and find the system that most closely matches what you need.
Two good sites for doing your comparisons are:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
References :