What is your favorate CMS?

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What is your favorate CMS?
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[VIPStephan]

CMSmadesimple (http://cmsmadesimple.org)

[rmedek]

ExpressionEngine. It's not even a contest. I haven't seen another CMS out there that lets me do as much "whatever I want" as EE. Plus, the custom fields are awesome…no more of this "title" "excerpt" "content" limitation nonsense.

I swear I don't work for them but man…I would rather debug a MySpace layout than build a site using another CMS.

[JamieR]

Joomla, nuff said.

I've had the most luck with Joomla, and found it the easiest to use and customise.

[rmedek]

Joomla, nuff said.

I've had the most luck with Joomla, and found it the easiest to use and customise.

Oh, man, and you call yourself a web designer. ;)

I hate Joomla. I can't even begin to describe the agonizing detail of working with its table-infested HTML output…trying to teach clients how to use it's god-awful interface…searching through the mounds of third-party mods to try to get some sort of decent functionality—I still shudder when I was working as a tech support guy for a company and all of their Joomla sites were hacked from using third-party components.

Sorry, I'm getting carried away. Can you tell I don't care for Joomla very much? Joomla and I are not speaking to each other after some rough times together.

I did the HTML/CSS templates for a Joomla module called GigCalendar; my friend worked on this project for well over a year. It essentially gathered band and venue info and published it on a Joomla site. I needed a calendar with the same functionality on an ExpressionEngine site and whipped up a working version in under an hour, with no third-party modifications.

[NancyJ]

I wrote my own. :p

[NancyJ]

You can't trust clients with these CMS's - they put ratings and comments on everything

[croatiankid]

Rmedek, you use the free version or a (paid) licensed version? BTW Joomla 1.5 RC just came out recently and it's completely rewritten from 1.x.x. The programming is supposedly much improved (using the most of PHP 4 and MySql 3 (minimum requirements)).

My favorite CMS is wordpress, and then Joomla. I started checking out EE a few days ago, but it looks like I need to check out the User Manual first since it isn't too intuitive (at least not to me).

[bazz]

I wrote my own. :p

me too; well, with a lot of help from people here. At least then, no-one can slate it (except me) :)

bazz

[rmedek]

Rmedek, you use the free version or a (paid) licensed version?

I use the personal license on my site ($99) and for clients I tell them to buy whatever license is necessary directly from EE. The cost quickly pays for itself as I otherwise would have needed to spend hours hacking a free CMS to do what I want. There's a "core" version that's free; it does pretty much everything except incorporate the built-in photo gallery or email functionality, which of course is easy enough to program.

[Jutlander]

I am quite happy with WordPress. Even though it's more of a blog system it's easy to customize as a CMS with pages instead of posts. And there's lots of plugins available.

[JamieR]

Oh, man, and you call yourself a web designer. ;)

I hate Joomla. I can't even begin to describe the agonizing detail of working with its table-infested HTML output…trying to teach clients how to use it's god-awful interface…searching through the mounds of third-party mods to try to get some sort of decent functionality—I still shudder when I was working as a tech support guy for a company and all of their Joomla sites were hacked from using third-party components.


Joomla is the only CMS I've really used as a CMS. I've used Wordpress, but only for blogging really, and not so much a whole site integration using it.

I do agree with what you mean about the HTML output. I haven't seen the latest version, so playing with that is something I'll have to do soon - I wanna have a look at EE as well. Tbh I've never heard of it before it was mentioned here.

[Basscyst]

Heh, my boss calls me his CMS. So I choose me, I am the best CMS. If you would like to purchase a license it can be had for a about 85k a year. :p

[rafiki]

Heh, my boss calls me his CMS. So I choose me, I am the best CMS. If you would like to purchase a license it can be had for a about 85k a year. :p

your on 85k ??

[bazz]

ha, he didn;t say in which currency. :D

bazz

[rafiki]

i guess $85k (USD) which would still convert into a nice wage packet eaech month in most if not all country's

[Basscyst]

Yes, USD, lol. And that'd actually be about 10k a year raise, I'm due. Any takers? :D