best CMS 2012
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- qoob
What's the best option these days for building a small to medium sized site?
- GeorgesII0
wordpress
- qoob0
That's it huh? I guess WordPress conquered all
- aaux0
Hard to beat the simplicity and community size Wordpress has.
- It's the fucking McDonalds of CMSs.mikotondria3
- All in the hands of the user. Some pretty great sites in Wordpress out there.aaux
- vaxorcist0
what's your criteria?
Are you looking for job security where the client has to come back to you for changes? then wordpress isn't right....
are you looking for a CMS where, if the designer/developer gets hit by a bus you can still get somebody else to fix it, then wordpress is great...
- doctor0
It depends on your needs. What do you mean by size? Rather, you should consider the complexity of your technical needs. Will you need integration with other systems? What about e-commerce? Etc.
My favorites:
Simple sites: WordPress (quick, but not very flexible).
Complex sites: Drupal (more work, but can do everything)
E-commerce: Tie between Drupal and Magento.
- jtb260
Wordpress as a CMS for anything other than a blog requires so much hacking it's ridiculous.
That said - if you use it paired with Carrington Build it's pretty nice.
- < the voice of inexperiencealbums
- i call b.s. hahahaprophetone
- Only someone that doesn't use Wordpress would say this.aaux
- haha - ridiculous statement!fadein11
- qoob0
^ Not sure I would agree with that at all. It's actually surprising how easily WordPress can be extended once you get your head around custom content types, taxonomies etc.
- nocomply0
WordPress is very flexible, but it takes some time and effort to unlock all of its power.
The beauty of it is that is pretty darn simple to start. You don't need to make it super complicated if you don't want to.
Other CMS's like Joomla or Drupal give you all of the power upfront, but also hit you with a really steep learning curve that most people simply don't need.
If you are even a fairly savvy developer you can learn how to do a lot with WordPress in just a short amount of time.
No one's paying me to say this. My experience has just been that WordPress is far better than anything else out there right now.
- vaxorcist0
learning to actually think wordpress rather than hack it is a good thing...
- monoboy0
Don't let clients access a CMS, they'll only make an arse of it. Static all the way.
- <<<<<ArmandoEstrada
- There's plugins for controlling the client experience. You can also customize the admin area.vwsung18t
- prophetone0
wp
- vaxorcist0
you can go odd-ball-cms you and yourcrew have invented or tweeked the greatest proprietary CMS of all time!.... you pitch it powerpoint bigtime to your clients... customize it like hell, then the client messes something up, there's an argument, they may take a while to pay, then they try to get somebody else to fix it... the other people get all confused, possibly make it worse... then the client either starts over, or calls you with a strange tone of voice and asks how much it will cost for you to fix it...
or a client refuses to ever use anything except wordpress because they're previously experienced the above situation....
- boobs0
Wordpress is a pain in the ass. It's so much easier to just make the pages and post them yourself. And most of the Wordpress sites I've made for clients, who wanted "to update it and post things" themselves, have never, ever been updated in the least.
- e-wo0
For small sites, me gusta PerchCMS.
Perhaps I'm still a Wordpress amateur, but I've had too many clients fuck up their site because they had access to too much.
- <- thisTheBlueOne
- There's plugins for controlling the client experience. You can also customize the admin area.vwsung18t
- sherm0
Definitely Drupal. The flexibility is unparalleled once you learn how to work with it
- tOki0
All of the developers I know rave about this one:
- houdou0
Wordpress no doubt.