Best open-source CMS

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From your own experiences, what is the best open-source CMS available today?

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wordpress, sure it's a weblog but you can use it for some websites too never used a regular CMS, I know some guy is using Joomla as backend while all the pages are created by himself

Yes Joomla seems to be very popular, people at sitepoint.com make money from using it in there sites,
Its not that hard to make one in dreamweaver

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the bad thing with Joomla is that the generated code is very bad (you need to use some seo add-on)

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If you are going to use Joomla, I think that Drupal is a better solution. On the other hand if you need something easy and quick, wordpress is always a great choice

Drupal if you really want a CMS its permission and node system makes it flexible and it has a really good API system meaning the number of modules (plugins) make even wordpress plugin db look small.

With a little learning anyone can create half decent and complex sites without any php coding, just through the CCK/Views/Actions modules.

However if you only want to publish a group of articles then Wordpress, if you want to be bogged down in appalling code, bad documentation and a bunch of support forums telling you they don't know either then by all means Joomla but its your own sanity your throwing away.

I would have to agree with Tim and Nikolas
that Drupal is much more powerful and flexible but a bit complex for beginners

wordpress on the other hand for simple sites might be the best solution

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thanks everyone. Drupal and Wordpress it is then.

just wondering thou why Joomla won last years award for the best cms?

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just wondering thou why Joomla won last years award for the best cms?

I think the awards are given by people didn't know about web development

Joomla is OK for people didn't know better, I guess the price is always because it's very easy to use.

just wondering thou why Joomla won last years award for the best cms?

I think the awards are given by people didn't know about web development

Joomla is OK for people didn't know better, I guess the price is always because it's very easy to use.

It it has managed to gather a lot of great designers around it and there are some stunning
(paid) templates for it.  Drupal is just starting to attract web designers lately.

Also I think Joomla was forked 2-3 years ago from Mambo which was an open source CMS that was backed up by full time employees of Miro and started in 2000 and by the time that Drupal came out (open source community backed) Mambo had already a lot of followers.

When joomla came out - from the developers of Mambo that did not like the practices of Miro - lots of the users jump immediately from Mambo to joomla.

without descending the thread into politics just look at the president of US

the best don't always win, Drupal has never been a fav with web designers it has a steep learning curve that photoshop fan boys don't like though it has been around for many years well before both Joomla and Mambo and has been powering sites like the onion for a fair few years.

drupal 5 and 6 have changed templating to make it more designer friendly and have added some much needed documentation to its templating system.

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the reason i asked is i have to make a site for someone who doesnt really like to fuzz around with coding. so i installed wordpress for her and i think its pretty easy to learn to use and get the hang of.

but i think drupal is what i will be using for my next site. thanks again for the info.

Tim I agree with you but just to get the record straight

Mambo was released in 2000 and it had a company behind it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla

and drupal released in 2001 with just a few hobbyists behind it
(thus slower development)
http://drupal.org/node/769

Drop drupal first incarnation was 2000 though the source code itself wasn't made public Jan 2001, Mambo source code was released in April 2001 prio to that like Drupal it had been floating but its first formal release and that of the source code on sourceforge was 4 months later then Drupal.

So your right years was inappropriate it seemed like it but I was only dimly aware of mambo still Drupal released it source code and was a open source project pre Mambo and out of the two it was Drupal that was leading at least in terms of major sites running it, but web developers failed to take to it.

Joomla has never left the realm of being an amateur web designer toy running sites that had previously used a nuke clone. Drupal on the other hand never really managed to get into that market at all wordpress sits neatly between the two and with blogging rising became quickly the more popular of the three.

I'm using CMS Made Simple on one of my sites. Was fairly easy to set up and there are a nice variety of free templates available. They aren't too bad to get validated. (I don't think I've seen a CMS or directory script that actually has fully validated templates.)

The main drawbacks that I have found is the script creator seems to be relying on the goodwill of others to support his product and that it seems to be a little bandwidth heavy. He does however put out patches and upgrades as needed. Otherwise, I like it and it provides what I need.

So, we are about to design a community, and while I will not be in charge of install, set up, design, or add ons, I will have to maintain pages, communities, commenting....yada yada yada.

I have used Joomla and it is pretty riigid in my opinion. There are tools but they give you little flexibility, especially if you know a bit of code.

Is Drupal easier to administer?

Considering the open-source CMS.I choose wordpress for my own site .

Wordpress for an online community?

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Wordpress for an online community?

sure together with bbpress

Wordpress for an online community?

sure together with bbpress

Yeah ,That 's right !

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