What do you think is the easiest to use CMS

[pood]

What's the easiest CMS to use and lightweight?

I'm a BIG fan of Wordpress, have used to for years, but it's more blogging than CMS.

I've used drupal and Joomla, neither are easy to use, especially for people that know nothing about computers.

[Goran]

I was going to say the same exact thing you did. Modified Wordpress can be a good CMS other than that it's Joomla or Drupal.

[Claudek]

Depends on what you want done and what you define by lightweight.

One CMS I use a bit is SNews (http://snewscms.com/). As it consists on only 1 file, I guess it's as lightweight as you can get. Does the job for me and if you want extra features/mosules, there are quite a few to choose from as well.

[daringtakers]

If you have very simple requirement than SNews or wordpress is the way to go.
otherwise drupal or joomla are also gud altranatives

[Karc2007]

I didn´t had any experience with cms before, i started using it and its really easy to use for beginners. It´s also Open Source, but you won´t have as much plugins and mods as drupal offers, but still enough, if you want to maintain a website (forums, polls, search, votes, ratings, serveral picture-gallerys etc)

url: cmsmadesimple.org

P.S.: I already sent this message, but it wasn´t displayed... don´t know why.

[pood]

drupal and joomla/mambo are still too hard for my customers. some of these guys are completely computer illiterate.


Perhaps a custom solution is a better way to do this?

[DomainManMike]

Mambo has been the easiest for my clients to understand, but I much prefer Drupal. If you're going to learn one yourself, by all means go with Drupal. It's got a great userbase as well.

Good luck!

[MeetHere]

Joomla and wordpress are best and widely used. :)

[blade007]

WordPress FTW. It's very easy to use and has a load of plugins .

If client is not technically minded then Wordpress.

Joomla and Drupal and Xoops and MODX are far too complicated for normal people.

[KrazyPRican]

i like joomla. once you get the hang of it u'll really like it. i'm experimenting with wordpress now because going to be creating some blogs.

[tibberous]

I've used Joomla and Wordpress, and imo WordPress is better - unless you need a plugin that doesn't have an equivalent in WordPress.

Here is an article I wrote on the subject:

http://www.decidebetween.us/web-development/content-management-joomla-vs-wordpress.html

[WriteInYourVote]

I agree, joomla and WP are great, I haven't used any others....

[VirtualF]

My vote for Joomla. I can only spend a few minutes to post a new article. It is such an easy tool and you just don't have to worry about the rest, once it's fully set up.

[drcode]

Here's an excerpt from a new article on my website:

First, you need to have a good idea of how you're going to organize your content. Then, you create sections based on broad divisions in your content. Within each of these sections you further define categories based on finer distinctions in your content. Some content will not fit in to these sections and categories and will be primarily static, such as your copyright information, contact us information, and such. This sort of content will be placed into the static content area.

Once you have organized your content and added some of it to the interface, you can then define menus that will control how this content is displayed to the user. The most common menus are used to display either a list of available articles or display articles in a blog like format. Other available menu types can be used to link directly to particular articles, or to components such as forums.

I cover most of the building blocks in the rest of the article: components, modules, access control, and mambots.

The article is at:

http://myinternettutorials.com/content/view/28/

Michael

[poytspot]

my vote goes to Joomla! simply becoz it's my 1st CMS tool

[hotpop]

If you have some budget, just try vivvo ,very easy to use.

[engadven]

If the question is the easiest and lightweight CMS then Joomla cannot be a solution. It's got loads of facilities but difficult for non IT people even to enter content and not particularly quick or easy to setup.
As web designers I think we need big CMS systems like Joomla but for text based sites there are smaller CMS solutions that can are much quicker, easier and lighter.
I like PC based parsing engines which have no online database to worry about.
Just cut and paste text in very quickly to create huge sites within hours.
One simple form entry so that secretaries etc only need 10 minutes training to master.
Push one button and the content is parsed into a static .htm pages via a simple blogger style template.
Install the software once and you can build hundreds of sites. In fact some extreme versions claim to be able to create 100 sites a day and all you have to put in are the keywords.
Although I think thats a little too easy and lightweight.

[richrf]

The only one I would touch is Wordpress. I think it is more cost-effective, from a long-term maintenance point of view, to build from scratch then deal with the idiosyncrasies of Joomla and Drupal. However, if I wanted a really sturdy piece of software, I might go with ExpressionEngine.

Rich

[Tetragon]

doctors differ .... and patients die ............. cms nightmare

so anyone ever do a study/comparison? etc.

[spartax]

webdesigner goes to template designer by the cms.......

[tsiger]

CMS Made Simple is the easiest thing i've ever used for small scale projects. amazing.

[Bohol]

Joomla and Drupal are the leaders. They may be complicated for new comers but once you master these two CMS softwares, it's always worth the effort.

[Tetragon]

Joomla and Drupal are the leaders. They may be complicated for new comers but once you master these two CMS softwares, it's always worth the effort.


Joomla or Drupal ..... for someone who is starting to learn ... which one is best to concentrate on?

[dpQuint]

Wordpress was a piece of cake to set up. I was up and running in under a day. Drupal on the other hand, took me several months to feel comfortable with.

I like Drupal, but I don't know if I'd do it all over again, it took a long time to master.

Wordpress is a bicycle, Drupal is a tank.

Wordpress is a great blog (maybe the best), and not really a CMS. Drupal is a CMS.

I wish Jelsoft had a CMS. vBulletin is great.

[Crynos]

Definitely wordpress for me - for both blogging and regular CMS. It's so easy to work with.

[sudhirmangla]

Drupal is best. take some ttime to learn it. after that nothing can come close to drupal.

[SticKer]

i found wordpress the best and easiest cms to use.

[danparks]

You mention that both drupal and Joomla are too difficult. You might consider a custom CMS - a CMS developed just for you. If you needed a complex CMS, that would be expensive. But if your needs are pretty limited, and very specific, this route is worth considering. Nowadays most web developers create dynamic sites for clients, which means a database and a CMS. So there are many, many people with the skills to modify their existing CMS for you.

Dan