Simple but Powerful CMS?

Baz · #11 (**permalink**) 30-01-2008, 12:23 AM

From a personal point of view (I'm a newbie btw!)
I would say either Wordpress or Joomla. You will need HTML and CSS knowledge for both and you will be tinkering very lightly with PHP too.

If you want something that can do anything with modifications (sometimes easy, sometimes very painful) go for Joomla, it can even back itself up if you install the right mods so really good piece of mind. If you want good SEO in the most part and general easy useability from the start try Wordpress. If it came down to it I'd say Joomla, but I fully agree you will spend a few months learning the basics... and yes you always have the 2% you're not sure of even if you know everything before you install that last mod!

Best Of Luck,
Baz

fantastvik · #12 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearaman

Hi All,
I'm going to be designing a number of similar sites and would like to offer the clients the ability to update them via a simple CMS. Here are my requirements:

1) Simple for the client to update, if they can send mail or use Word, they should be able to update content or create new pages.
2) Very SEO friendly. Needless to say, I know, but indexing by Google is a must.
3) The web sites will initially be simple affairs with a few pages of information and a web form. It should be easy to add more services in the future.
4) Possible to administer all sites centrally? I would love to have the ability to add, for example, a newsletter service to all my client from one button click!
5) Easy for me to control user and group permissions.

I haven't used any CMS in the past and I'm currently looking at CMS Made Simple CMS Made Simple - Welcome to CMS Made Simple - an open-source CMS. Anybody used it before?
Looking forward to hearing your views.
Thanks,
Bearaman

try Drupal. it is better than Joomla. you will absolutely love it

oliflorence · #13 (**permalink**) 15-09-2008, 01:33 PM

Hi There,
we are recently launch our own CMS with web designer access. This is a system we have building over the years for our clients so it is really built with the client in mond, making this simple for them and easy to use but it is also very powerful with the ability to grow to much larger sites and with a control panel for you in order to determine which area the client can access etc.
If you can design a web page without CMS then this is all the technical knowledge you need, integrating is very easy to do.
You can view more info on our site at www.flocms.ie
You can contact us from the site for pricing etc if this is of interest.

aathuls · #14 (**permalink**) 24-10-2008, 07:44 AM

Wordpress way is better because it's very simple and easy to use. It has a lot of more themes.

MH-Dolly · #15 (**permalink**) 09-12-2008, 12:18 AM

I recommend joomla also is very easy to start and has a nice documentation!

hughdurkin · #16 (**permalink**) 11-12-2008, 02:57 AM

Wordpress sounds perfect for what you're doing.

It's easy to make larger sites work well with it, and various plugins can handle caching, data importing, and even managing multiple sites from the same interface.

If you need an idea of how it can look decent enough, www.celebritygossip.ie is running it (though I do have to set up the caching a lil better because it's being hammered at the moment).

shaneod · #17 (**permalink**) 19-12-2008, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seaghan

With all due respect, what you are looking for is nowhere near a 'simple CMS'. No CMS will accept content from Word without going through some sort of filter to clean up the MS styling that feics up most content. That said, many editors have a paste from word or paste plain text, that *if* used by the end user, will help.

As for central management, Drupal has multisites in its core (ie install and deploy mother website, and then deploy sibling sites based on parent settings). Some of your other requirements are possible with considerable tweaking, but overall you are looking at spending a few weeks (or 3 or 4 ordinary websites) getting to know a CMS and then trying this project - or paying someone to set up 90% of the system for you, and working on the last 8% over a few weeks. The last 2% you will not be able to implement, trust me

You will not get 'simple to use', from an out of the box setup, with your specific requirements, so my friendly advice is not to keep looking for a perfect CMS (there ain't any) but choose a 90% one, learn it well, be realistic, and work from there on the 8%

HTH

Best of luck with it

I'd be inclined to agree with all of that.

Expand.ie · #18 (**permalink**) 21-12-2008, 11:10 AM

Cushy CMS is by far the best I have come across for free and simple CMS.
Joomla will do your nut in for the first month or so, customising templates can be a pain in the hole.

Cushy lets you just add a class to your content's div and make changes through the browser.. Its like adobes new incontext editing, but better.... check her out.

If your looking for something more complex go to wordpress or joomla.

Apollo · #19 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 01:16 AM

Would Drupal + Modules not tick these boxes?

fantastvik · #20 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 02:54 PM

Though it is a old thread but could not stop myself from adding what i know,since i have come across very interesting recently which full fills the criteria of simple and easy to use CMS completely.Infact this CMS was developed keeping non programmers in mind.its name is zimplit

It has following features:

1.No Database.

2.Not a single line of code is required to integrate a website template into CMS.

3.And yes as you said updating the content is almost like word,any body who has worked on word can operate this CMS.

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