Originally Posted by tesshood12

I tried PostNuke and Joomla. I am evaluating some of the others. I would strongly recommend silverstripe, as it has a great UI and is easy to use, but I'm not sure if this would be appropriate for your needs for integration. Wordpress is also good.

the idea with silverstripe is to use it as a base for your own cms, strip it down, skin and strip the backend and use it like a framework (since it is a framework).

I would advise you code it all if you really wanna use it in simple format. I've used wordpress and it is easy to setup. Training material is given as well.

I have suggesting Drupal and Joomla,because it having very good user friendly admin control panel,which we can use and maintain easily.The new user's of joomla website they can easily find out what it is.

Joomla and Drupal having very good themes,which giving first impression to the users.We can easily maintain large number of contents in these CMS's.
Thanks & Regards.
Harry.

Joomla is the best simple CMS.A very popular open-source CMS that is found at the heart of many well known websites

Good one dude..keep doing nice work

I love to use wordpress its very impressive you can also create simple pages using wordpress.
Please Also checkout WordPress Photo Galleries Thanks

As per my review Drupal is the best CMS.A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case. A feature is a module. This lets each feature get a great deal of Drupal core’s infrastructure out of the box meant for managing, sharing, and updating modules.Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.

Drupal is best and simple CMS..
Below i have listed some futures about Drupal:

1. Content authoring with flexible access control
2. Macintosh and Windows support for content editing
3.Forums, blogs, newsletters, wikis, quizzes, polls, sweepstakes, and other social networking module
4. Gallery/sideshow module
5. Calendar/event module

I think joomla is best because easy to install PHP/MySQL-based hosting environment, and the lots of joomla template is available on the web if you want to choose different themes for your site depending on the structure and orientation.

The arguments are going to be massive.

If it is a small site for clients to edit and you only have minimal html knowledge and php is beyond you, maybe create theme, etc via html and provide them with an open source fontpage like html editor. It is very easy to show people how to drop and drag via ftp and is the easiest to replicate.

Although me, personally love joomla, plugins for a gallery are extremely easy and the ability to create your own theme is even easier. Wordpress backend for CMS I don't like (can also be said for joomla) but everyone is 50/50 on this.

It is just a matter of trial and error.

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Just depends on what your client is after

If one have long term goal with atleast little customisation in mind Drupal is the right choice for any one looking for an open souce CMS

For me word press really rocks !

Joomla for websites. CMS.

Cubecart for eCommerce.

SMF for forums.

Wordpress. It's easy to implament and can easily be modified to your standards.
if you want to make your own theme,It is a little difficult.

Good luck !

I would spend few hours and learn word press, it really is easy and produces great looking sites.

Joomla is the great CMS to make simple but dynamic website. It have great support of PHP and MYSQL. if you want to manage your blog then wordpress CMS will be the best choice.

Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress are all great CMS that fit your requirement. I prefer Wordpress amongst all if you don't need advance extensions.

As coolkbk585 suggests that Wordpress is really very easy to use. Its true
but Other options are
Joomla
Drupal
Symphony-Cms
Pligg

For your particular requirements please consider my post: Top 5 Web CMS You Should Consider.

+1 for Wordpress

HI

The simplest cms I can recommend would be symphony-cms.
I will admit, I'm using it on a shared host and having some troubles. In fact I haven't got it running, YET. But I can see massive potential.
There are hosts that work with it really well (a list included on their site) and most users recommend dedicated hosting for it..

But it's pretty much a blank canvas. You can use the GitHub repository install method for one that auto-updates, or just a .zip package which you install manually.

There is a ton of Extensions and Utilities which make it possible to do just about whatever you want. These can also run through GitHub to stay up to date. Also with some know-how you can make your own stuff too.

I use it because I need to upload Flash and create many 'one-off' pages with different features.

Cheers
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