How many CMS do you think there are out there? If you ask me… I have no idea, but obvioulsy, thousands! Bob Doyle says there are “nearly 1800 listed in the major directories”. This was back in 2005.
Every once in a while a web developer contact me asking me to contribute to a new CMS or review a brand new one. It has never been so difficult to select one especially when there are so many excellent CMS on the web to choose from.
If you don’t know which one to choose, OpenSourceCMS lists and rates some of the most popular Open Source CMS software. This would be a good place to start. You can try online demos here. As an alternative, you can also compare some popular CMS at www.cmsmatrix.org.
As for myself, I use Wordpress for most of my web projects for its simplicity, flexibility, number of plugins and its large community always eager to help you. I also use Drupal or Joomla if I need a more robust CMS.
Here’s some factors to keep in mind when choosing a CMS:
- Can non-technical users easily create/update content without any HTML knowledge?
- Is this CMS easy to install, configure, manage and learn?
- Do they have a large community?
- Do they have a support forum and do they get back to you within a few days only?
- What features would you like to use on your site? Can you extend it easily by installing additional plugins/modules or do you need to create your owns?
- Are URL’s search engine friendly? (http://site.com/blog/your-post rather than http://site.com/index.php/?p=210)
- How secure is the system?…
But, let’s get back to what this post really is about: the poll! I’d like to know which CMS you use for your web projects and/or what is your favorite one(s). Take the poll below and make your vote count!
(You can select more than one answer).
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The results of this poll should help you decide which CMS to choose for you next Web project. At the end, the decision will be yours.
(You can leave a comment if you think a CMS is missing in this list or if you need to explain why it is the best CMS ever).
Popularity: 13% [?]
July 24th, 2008 at 7:46 am
We use Kentico CMS. It is not for free but we like it. Great solution with great support!
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 am
you need to check out b2evolution it’s a fork off of WordPress that lets you have multipal blogs run by one admin panel. I’m using it on http://www.ernestgambrell.org and http://yearbook.lamit.com and every blog is a seperate blog but I log in to one admin panel (back-end) to administer all of them in one place.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
I guess b2evolution is like Wordpress MU in some way, isn’t it?
August 6th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I can’t vote in your poll! I check a box (Wordpress) click ‘vote’ and a box pops up which says ‘Choose a valid poll answer’.
Is ‘Wordpress’ not valid then?
It won’t let me see the rsults either
August 6th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Thanks for reporting Diane. However, I don’t know what could be the problem. I have just tried it now and it worked fine for me. Please, if someone else notice this bug, let me know. Thanks
August 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I’m using a Mac running OS 10.5.4 and I have tried with lots of browsers - Safari, Firefox, Flock, Opera, Camino - all the same
August 7th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Can’t vote either using Leopard. Wild guess (see the link to my site) which one I’d vote for?
August 8th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Ok, thanks. I will try to see what’s the problem with this Poll plugin.
I remember someone from MODx ported the Yoghourt template to MODx. Was it you?
MODx seems like a great CMS. I really like the dashboard.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hi,
Just came to check out the results as I’m looking into the most appropriate one for one of my customers.
Unfortunately I’m having exactly the same problem as Diane.
I’ve on XP SP2 and issue occurs on Firefox 3, IE6 and IE7.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I found the problem. It was a technical issue over here due to the conflict in ID. Polls couldn’t be in 2 places (sidebar and post) on the same page. I removed it from the sidebar so you should now be able to vote.
Let me know if it works! Thanks.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
You hero you
Thanks, all working now.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Hey Jeremie.
Everything works out fine indeed.
Have a great weekend.
Take care.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Nice to see these results. I’ve used sNews CMS in the past, the 1 page PHP CMS, which is truly lightweight. But I do prefer Wordpress these days …
September 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
Hello Jeremie, i was just searching the web for how to make a nice website header and came across your site. I must say that you are just brilliant. I am from South Africa and i am a newbie in web designing but i think i am going to learn alot from you.I like the way you put all your contents together and this exactly my weakness. I cant get nice and brilliant contents like you do. Whats the secret? Hope to be on your site everyday!
Kind regards
Hassy Kalule
September 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
Thanks Hassy for the kind words. I don’t have any special secret. When you design a site, keep it simple and put a lot of padding between your DIVs.