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I'm looking for an open source CMS, that is easy to install, clean, and has an intuitive backend. I've used Joomla before, but the backend was not very moron-friendly. I'm looking at

Xoops
Drupal
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as alternatives. Any feedback on these or suggestions of others?

Thanks!
 


I love drupal. I think that is, hands down, the best CMS I've ever worked with, and I've worked with huge, enterprise wide content management systems that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Drupal has an extradinary support community, is a snap to install, very SEO friendly, very easy to customize, secure, loads of plugins for functionality etc.
 
Cool. I was thinking about Drupal some time ago. I've got about 40 spare domains, maybe I'll install one of each and see what's what.
 
I've checked out Modx, the AJAX effects are pretty cool but I think it has a ways to go before it's at the level that drupal is.

Mike- If you need any help at all trying to do whatever you're trying to accomplish with drupal, let me know, I know the CMS pretty thoroughly.
 
Cool, I may take you up on that.

Well, for now, I ended up going with Joomla. Only because I've used it before, even though it annoys the hell out of me.

I really want to give Drupal a try, so I think I'll install that on another domain that is still sans site.
 
Cool, just let me know. I wasn't a big fan of the code behind Joomla, or the way the pages rendered the user. Since SEO is a huge part of what I do, I really need the versatility that drupal gives me to customize everything (title tags, url/directory structure, etc) with ease.
 
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Cool, just let me know. I wasn't a big fan of the code behind Joomla, or the way the pages rendered the user. Since SEO is a huge part of what I do, I really need the versatility that drupal gives me to customize everything (title tags, url/directory structure, etc) with ease.
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Yeah, don't get me started on Joomla's different SEO modules and addons, etc, etc. CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP in a can
 
Mike,

Don't mean to repeat what's already been said quite a bit around here. But what about WordPress as a CMS? It seems like they are definitely taking the software in this direction. There are quite a few awesome resources on WF about using WP as a CMS by installing plugins.

I was like you and wanted to learn Drupal. Even went out and bought a book and downloaded Drupals guide. I returned the book after reading the WP CMS threads and doing some research online. For now I can say that WP is a much easier CMS for me than Drupal (and a quick glance at Joomla). And I am probably one of the least technical dudes on this board.

Peace, DrH
 
Joomla is too heavy most of the time. The good thing about Joomla is that there are thousands of templates available.

I still would prefer Drupal! Also, if you need a small cms you might want to check etomite.

By the way, is anyone a (very) good Drupal template designer? If so please pm me some example of your work. I'm looking for a new designer.
 
I've used Drupal, Xoops, and Joomla/Mambo.

Xoops was nice but ultimately wasn't for me.

Joomla/Mambo is bloated.

Drupal is O.K.

In the end I went with Wordpress. If you know how to create your own Templates beyond the vanilla that is available for free there is nothing you can't accomplish with Wordpress.

If you must go with something other then Wordpress then go with Drupal.
 
With the proper plugins and setup, Wordpress can become a great, light-weight CMS. But, I would definitely vote for Drupal as the best "real" CMS out there...
 
I've used Xoops in the past and I'm not really a fan of that CMS. I've always been a big Wordpress fan. I now use it for all my content based websites.
 
Proof said:
Any doubts about Wordpress's CMS capabilities can be put down with these two sites....Soul Purpose :: Life, Faith, Music, SmallTalk and Kineda. Both are run using Wordpress + a couple of modules/plug-ins + custom templates
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and I thought what I was doing with wordpress was in depth. good lord do i have a way to go.

anyone know how to make a seperate page, but allow yourself to post "new posts" to those pages in wp? you know how you can either create a new post or a new page. well, i want to make a page, say, TEMPLATES, and make 'new posts' to that page when i create new templates. anyone know how to do this, instead of just editing the TEMPLATES page with the new templates?
 
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a...i want to make a page, say, TEMPLATES, and make 'new posts' to that page when i create new templates. anyone know how to do this, instead of just editing the TEMPLATES page with the new templates?
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DeVore- As with any CMS, it wouldn't a seperate "page", per-se, but rather a category. If you have a templates "Catagory", and it points to domain.com/templates/ it will list each one of your new templates as individual posts, however under the category "templates".

Your only other alternative would be simply editing a templates "Page".
 
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