CMS for portfolio site

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  • ukit0

    Just to play devil's advocate here, why not build your own site?

    The time spent mastering a CMS can instead be put into learning some very basic PHP/ Codeignitor, Ruby on Rails or Python/ Django (my drug of choice). While that might sound intimidating, the truth is that getting a basic site + admin area going with one of the aforementioned frameworks isn't a hell of a lot more difficult than trying to work your way around the idiosyncrancies of many of the CMSes mentioned above. And then you will have an actual new skill you can tout in your portfolio.

    • good advice but presumes enough technical ability to do that - a lot of designers don't know HTML let alone...ckentish
    • yeah, that's a solid point.airey
    • Kind of agree & disagree - have used Indexhibit in thepast and feel that whilst it takes time to master at least it gets me half way there to start with ...skeletonboy

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