Content Management Systems
I’m trying to decide if I want to play with a content management system when I revise my website and or design new ones. BlueHost offers something like seven to choose from, and I’m not sure what I’d like best. From initial impressions, Joomla! looks interesting, but I truly have no clue. In a limited way, I know WordPress functions as a basic content management system, but I’m trying to decide if I want or need anything with the capability to be more robust.
Do any of you use these with your websites? If so, what features do you use the most? What do you like best about what you’ve chosen to use? What doesn’t work so well for you? If it matters, I like to play with tech-type stuff, but I have zero programming skills, so I need idiot-proof software and well-behaved plug-ins. I can edit a file (usually).
I’ve tested a couple of different CMSs and found them all to be far too complicated and cumbersome. (Joomla!, for instance, has a rather complicated and unintuitive interface, and I found it was going to require a LOT more work to integrate things into it than I felt it was worth at the time.) I use a couple of different instances of WordPress – pumped up on plugin steroids – for CMSs, and I’m very content with the way they work.
Ditto Jim. I’m not a web idiot but I’ve yet to figure out any of the CMS’s to my satisfaction. Any plug-ins that you download are not the simple unzip and install the way WP is. As far as I’m concerned I can do anything I want with WP and am working on building a web site for my Civil Air Patrol unit with it. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thanks. This is exactly the type of feedback I was seeking. Keep it coming.
The other option I suppose is getting someone to set up the CMS for you, so that you just have to do the actual writing of, well, content. I tried Drupal a year ago, and it was just too inflexible for what I wanted. It was easy enough to set up with the basics, but if you wanted to change things you really needed to know CSS and PHP.
PS So there Akismet!
A pox on PHP! I know it’s supposed to be all that but man…I just can’t make heads or tails of it. I was able to teach myself HTML but I think I’ll need a class in PHP. I *heart* WP because they’ve made it so very user friendly.