Selecting a content management system

[darrenc@telus.net]

and with all that popularity, comes a dedicated and vibrant development community that is constantly fixing and upgrading wordpress.....

[RyanMoran]

I'll throw my vote in to echo the Wordpress gang.

I use it for just about EVERYTHING now...

My favorite theme site is Woothemes.com - costs a bit, but I really like there stuff.

I consulted with a new music company this week, and they were total newbs - I should them Wordpress and it was like they saw the light... (I wish all consulting gigs were that easy!)

[Michael Hiles]

I manage a small hosting company and I can tell you right now, stay the heck away from Joomla. It is a quick ticket to being hacked.
One of our clients put it on our box and we have had nothing but trouble from their sites since. Twice the ISP has threatened us with a 24 hour shutdown notice due to the clients Joomla being hacked and attacking other sites.

While Joomla can do some nice things, it is not worth the hassles.

If you do use Joomla, then like Wordpress, stay on top of the updates. Patch often!

The problem a lot of people make is they install wordpress or joomla and then set and forget it.

If you want Joomla features without the hacking, DotNetNuke rocks.

[Ralf Skirr]

Mh, I highly doubt that Wordpress is the 'best' CMS, it has quite a few aspects that are not so great.

Popularity does not necessarily equal quality. :-) That's especially true for many things popular in the IM niche, isn't it?

But wordpress seems to be the CMS with the most plugins and themes available.
For Internet marketers there's a ton of plugins and specialized themes that you won't find for other CMSs.

About Joomla: I found it to be a mess when I tested it a few years back. Maybe it's better now. But I also find that IMers using Joomla build web sites with zero focus, zero usability and cluttered with dozens of distracting boxes and links that do not contribute to the site's marketing goal.

A commercial one worth looking is:
http://www.interspire.com/websitepublisher/

I also heard good things about Expressionengine, but never looked at it.
http://expressionengine.com/

Another popular and professional one is Typo3, but I disliked the concept that it has it's own programming language that you'd have to learn.

Ralf

[Dean Holland]

Hi

Again like many have said Wordpress is the CMS for me

I'm not techie at all and in fact I dont know many other CMS's

But I can use wordpress, it has a ton of features and plugins that mean you can pretty much do anythign you want with it

Good luck

Dean

[Paul Teague]

I've used Mambo and Joomla in the past and they've been very good, loads of add-ons, intuitive to use.

I even tried a little-known one called E107 which is actually really good ... it has some really cool add-ons.

However, for CMS I just don't think you can beat a server installed Wordpress ... it's easy to install in cpanel, there's a tonne of support for it and and the add-on support is incredible.

Think of something that you want it to do, and there's bound to be an add-on for it :-)

If you're not good at the teccie stuff Siteground specialize in installing and supporting CMS installations on packages like Joomla, Wordpress, Mambo, Drupal, they provide some great free tutorials and also give decent free templates as well.

[Kunj K]

Wordpress without a doubt!

It's awesome

[mjbacch]

I also think WP is the fastest, easiest way to set up a CMS quickly. Plus, there are a ton of plugins that allow you to modify for SEO. I also used a program that allows you to set up a paid membership and drip the content to the new member if you are setting up a paid membership site.

What I like most about WP is the fact that there are so many developers out there contributing new and cool plugins for it, almost on a daily basis.

One last thing I want to mention is the fact that if you set up WP correctly Google loves the linking structure and you can get ranked pretty fast for your long tail keywords. Just remember to change how WP names the pages so you don't end up with a ..../?P=12 Page but a ../long_tail_keyword

[Desmonds]

hey.....
I use Wordpress extensively and learned it well enough in 1 day to put a site up. It fixes every issue of on page SEO with only a small amount of configuration and a few pluggins.

[Saleem Yaqub]

Wordpress is highly customisable, little to no learning curve, vast range of themes, etc. And its FREE! I've used it for lots of sites and works a dream. Yes its not an enterprise level CMS but it all depends what you need.