CMS for almost static recipe site

[iskandar]

Guys, i have been reading posts here but haven't really got my some of the questions in my mind answered. So, i have to started a new thread.

I decided to try cms since i am tired of designing static pages and would like to concentrate on contents for my new recipe site. I have a few things i would like to ask those who've tried both drupal and mambo

1) Which is more URL Friendly
I know both can do this job but having a link like www.foobar/node/1/... is not good enough. I need something like www.foobar/homerecipe/asian/... where it categories the folders.

I know there's a commercial version for mambo but it's too expensive for ppl from a third world country like me. Any free option that nearly as good as the commercial one or does drupal has the ability to do it?

1) Which is easier to customise?
I can't spend my time deisgning pages. That's the reason i want to switch. The thing is i have been looking at ordinary folks pages ( who used both cms) and they look almost the same, boring, lifeless and well....bad!

Why? is it so hard to customise? If so, then it beats it's own purpose - to make it easy for the users.

Can someone help me on this cms thing. I am green on this area:D

[exam]

I decided to try cms since i am tired of designing static pages
If it's going to be pretty much static content, you can use php and pre-design a "boilerplate" template page, and just have it pull the data from your database. Maybe you don't really need a CMS.

[iskandar]

ahah! that sounds good. Now i should search for something that you are proposing. thanks for the insight :)

[alvinhan]

Custom made is always a good choice as suggested. Guess you only need a very simple database for your recipe website, unless you plan to add more features in the future.

By the way, you might also have a look at webgui.

[iskandar]

webgui .. okay haven't heard of that too. will look into it now. thanks alvinhan

[Shoemoney]

Guys, i have been reading posts here but haven't really got my some of the questions in my mind answered. So, i have to started a new thread.

I decided to try cms since i am tired of designing static pages and would like to concentrate on contents for my new recipe site. I have a few things i would like to ask those who've tried both drupal and mambo

1) Which is more URL Friendly
I know both can do this job but having a link like www.foobar/node/1/... is not good enough. I need something like www.foobar/homerecipe/asian/... where it categories the folders.

I know there's a commercial version for mambo but it's too expensive for ppl from a third world country like me. Any free option that nearly as good as the commercial one or does drupal has the ability to do it?

1) Which is easier to customise?
I can't spend my time deisgning pages. That's the reason i want to switch. The thing is i have been looking at ordinary folks pages ( who used both cms) and they look almost the same, boring, lifeless and well....bad!

Why? is it so hard to customise? If so, then it beats it's own purpose - to make it easy for the users.

Can someone help me on this cms thing. I am green on this area:D

This is kind of a catch22 cause sure its easy to write your own if your a php guru of course its also easier just to make a title/url/rewrite hack for any of the cms out.

The one you posted above with node/1 style of url I assume is drupal? If so its pretty easy to replace 1 (the id of the story/article) with its topic.