What CMS is best for a total newbie

I need to setup a site for someone that has almost no online experience. I would like to know what CMS is the easiest for someone to learn?.

 

Wordpress is BY FAR the easiest to learn and the one with most support.

 

If it is a really small site i would go with the '19-pages', the wordpress is too complicated to a user without ANY online experience nor knowledge.

 

Wordpress is definately the way to go.

 

The site will have 20 - 25 pages when launched but he will adding lots of content so I expect the page count to grow quickly, the main concern I have is the ease at which he can add/delete content and pictures.

 

i suggest you to create your own CMS according to that person requirements..

 

so go with wordpress, don`t waste money on creating own cms.

 

I would suggest Website Baker or CMS Made Simple. I would not suggest Wordpress since it is more for blogging and will have many features you won't use or need like comments, archives, tags, etc. Modifying the template is also harder in wordpress for a newbie. CMS Made Simple, as the name suggests, is indeed very simple and was made from the ground up for static websites - not blogs like wordpress. Try them out and choose one yourself at opensourcecms dot com, it's a popular cms demo site.

 

Dotclear & Wordpress are veary easy to use.

 

If it is more like blog with growing content - WordPress is easiest.
But if not - Joomla!

 

Take a look at http://www.simplecms.com/ It doesn't get any simpler for a client than that.

A lot of the time Wordpress can be overkill depending on what the clients needs are.

 

Wordpress is easy

 

Typepad or Wordpress.com would be easiest for you to learn and use for someone else. Depends on the intentions and scale of your project.

 

I am a big fan of Joomla, you can set-up the site for your friend and he can easily add content, but WordPress is by far easier, and with all the great plugins and themes available you can make great websites with it.

 

Who said Wordpress was a CMS ? LINK

 

Wordpress..

 

Wordpress all the way. It's might be 'slightly' harder to learn than some of the fully hosted cms's out there, but only slightly. Within 5 mins any newbie should be able to get the hang of it.

And when they want to customize their themes etc. down the line they'll save a lot of time.

There are also fully hosted wordpress options out there that take care of any of the grunt-work required such as setup, patching, etc.. For like $4-$5 a month..

 

Wordpress if you want the easiest to setup for you. SilverStripe is great if you want a more robust true CMS. It is opensource. We have used it on the last 3 sites and it works great.

 

one of the easiest to setup for cms system in professional way go through webriq.com

 

Thanks for all the great input, some of them I have never heard of and will check them out tonight.