best CMS 2012
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- Daithi0
Still a fan of Expression Engine
http://statamic.com/ looks interesting too, but I haven't used it
- ESKEMA0
Concrete5. Though to be fair, I never touched anything else since the last couple years so I don't really know how's the competition.
At the time, Wordpress was a hassle to do anything but a blog style site and Drupal was too much of a Power Horse for small projects that had a steep learning curve for the clients to maintain.
Concrete5 has nicely evolved too. Great for small to medium size projects, with robust out of the box functionality + good add-ons and active community.
- vaxorcist0
My only Drupal experience has been either in picking up others "90% done" site, and/or trying some "little tests" but it seemed to force you into re-thinking things according to the DRUPAL WAY, rather than YOUR WAY, so I found myself resisting the forced re-education....
- fadein110
LOL @ wordpress difficult to set up...
- 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
- arthur0
I recently tried a build in SquareSpace v6. It has a pretty good online building tool, though the UI was odd at times. Ultimately, it wasn't customizable enough for my needs. Their tech support, while quick to respond, was basically unhelpful. Maybe v7.
Currently running c@rgo, but looking for more.
- 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.
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- 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.