What content management system would be best for me?

August 28, 2009 - 11:42 pm 2 Comments

I am an upcoming website designer. So far it is just me. I would like to use a CMS to help my clients manage their websites on their own. So i would need them to be able to add content anywhere, add pages, edit pages, add links, etc.

What CMS would you say is best for me?

It depends on how many features you want, if you want a very simple website with a small backend for creating pages then you can find simple content managment systems, normally I would say Joomla but if you are distrubuting it to people with no knowledge of it, you will be forever answering questions.

Go simple thats what I think, the other way would be to create your pages then use the php include command to include a txt file. this would make it easy foryour client to easily change the text file thus changing the content..

Good Luck

2 Responses to “What content management system would be best for me?”

  1. Cazpa Says:

    It depends on how many features you want, if you want a very simple website with a small backend for creating pages then you can find simple content managment systems, normally I would say Joomla but if you are distrubuting it to people with no knowledge of it, you will be forever answering questions.

    Go simple thats what I think, the other way would be to create your pages then use the php include command to include a txt file. this would make it easy foryour client to easily change the text file thus changing the content..

    Good Luck
    References :

  2. Chris B Says:

    It depends on the users. If the users are really non-technical and you don’t need all the complex approval and staging areas of a CMS then a locked down wiki (where only registered users can edit) may be the best thing. I used JSPWiki to set up a site like this ( http://bhu.org.uk/bhu/wiki/Main ).
    References :
    http://www.jspwiki.org/

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