Follow-Up to Great comment battle "for CMS suggestions"
But the valuable content is coming from the commenting crowd. Most of them are talking about real life experiences with the many different CMS.
That CMS discussion looks like a great pool of CMS knowledge exchange.
What CMS do you use - and what does it do well or badly?
Paul Bradshaw from onlinejournalismblog.com also asks his readers what CMS to suggest.
I’ve been teaching my student journalists how to use the content management system for our new news website (more about that in a later post). We’re using Joomla - it does a lot, but it’s not exactly user-friendly, which ironically makes it a very good experience for anyone who’ll have to use newspaper CMS’s.
And this begs the question: what CMS do you use - and what does it do well or badly?
Well my answer on onlinejournalismblog.com was eaten by the WP comment system (no reason given) but here is my comment mirroring my actual point of view:
Textpattern for single domain sites/blogs
My #1 CMS/blog system is Textpattern. Out of the box it looks like a blogging system but don't be fooled: TXP is a full featured medium size CMS. I love the editorial workflow, the use of sections (read: editorial departments or single pages or sub-blogs) and the great template tag logic with a lot of nice if/else possibilities. The performance as a single domain publishing platform is outstanding!
Pivot for easy multi-site publishing
Recently I played with Pivot 1.4.04 which is an immediate #2. It is no real blown up CMS but a very powerful multi site blogging platform. If you have multiple publishing sites/channels the Pivot way of doing it is awesome straight forward and simple!
Please read the related article: Multi blog solution: Somebody using Pivot?
Drupal - The killer application
For complex scenarios I always consider Drupal to be a good choice. The Drupal Yes/No criteria is if community features (forum, separate blogs) are on the to-do list. Multiple sites are also possible. But Drupal is definitely no out of the box CMS and it will eat resources.
Search for the single CMS names on performancing.com and you will find more opinions.
Yes, drupal can "eat"
Yes, drupal can "eat" resources, but it gives you power and flexibility.
What about MODx?
What about MODx?
Re: MODx
Well, I have never done something with MODx but the system sounds promising and won a nice newcomer award.
On the other hand I see no advantage over Textpattern at a quick glance. The German MODx page sounds pretty technical and somehow the system doesn't feel really grown up (just a 'between the lines' feeling I get from the page).
My biggest concern so far is the branding. They call MODx the 'CMS + PHP framework' which is a claim aimed at geeks and not at human content managers :)
But thanks for asking! I am always interested in throwing quick glances on unknown CMS.
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