What are you planning on using it for? There's a whole bunch out there, but it really depends on what your exact needs are.
Drupal is the most adaptable (and free) CMS I know, fully modular/etc. Big community, lots of use and as such reasonable performance.
Wordpress is great for blogs, although I feel it's suffering from bloat these days.
Textpattern is AWESOME if you can be bothered to learn it's syntax, which is annoying.
Thank you
WolfCMS is pretty great with my experience. It's extremely lightweight and it's easy to adapt a style to.
I develop drupal sites professionally, so obviously my words will have a bit of a slant to them.
Drupal's strength comes from it's community, it's community backed module system makes it immensely powerful. On it's own, drupal doesn't actually do much. Let's you manage pages, manage menus, and edit content on the fly. With module the sky instantly becomes the limit, a really good attitude has grown behind module development over the years where even the smallest and least well known modules are maintained fervently and the it stops being developed someone else either takes the helm of even forks it.
Bigger modules are often sponsored by corporate interests who want to get extra functionality out of modules, but it all stays FOSS.
Like a lot of CMS's drupal uses a templating system, but drupal's architecture is very strict on seperating form and function, which in the end makes for very need coding and incredible extensibility.
[QUOTE=Cluckyx;27407306]I develop drupal sites professionally, so obviously my words will have a bit of a slant to them.
Drupal's strength comes from it's community, it's community backed module system makes it immensely powerful. On it's own, drupal doesn't actually do much. Let's you manage pages, manage menus, and edit content on the fly. With module the sky instantly becomes the limit, a really good attitude has grown behind module development over the years where even the smallest and least well known modules are maintained fervently and the it stops being developed someone else either takes the helm of even forks it.
Bigger modules are often sponsored by corporate interests who want to get extra functionality out of modules, but it all stays FOSS.
Like a lot of CMS's drupal uses a templating system, but drupal's architecture is very strict on seperating form and function, which in the end makes for very need coding and incredible extensibility.[/QUOTE]
Drupal is indeed great, though it's not as easy to get into as something like WordPress.
It is a much more complete platform though, and with Drupal 7 now including some of the more useful modules (which you had to find before), it should be a lot more beginner friendly straight out of the box.
What is a CMS, just a blog?
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415141]What is a CMS, just a blog?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system]Content Management System.[/url]
[QUOTE=Torquil;27415426][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system]Content Management System.[/url][/QUOTE]
Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415802]Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?[/QUOTE]
It's a [b]system[/b] that [b]manage[/b]s [b]content[/b].
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415802]Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://jessicaisms.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/homer_facepalm.jpg[/img]
My face hurts so much. Again.
Three simple words for fuck's sake...
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415802]Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?[/QUOTE]
The Wikipedia article explains it well, try reading through it first.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415802]Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?[/QUOTE]
dude come on it's not that hard
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415802]Could someone explain it in non-wikipedia terms?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome]This should help you[/url].
[QUOTE=supersnail11;27415141]What is a CMS, just a blog?[/QUOTE]
I hope you do know that there are answers on google. Also, very nice people have provided you a link that you can read and understand if you have 3rd~5th grade education.
[QUOTE=zzlawlzz;27420371]I hope you do know that there are answers on google. Also, very nice people have provided you a link that you can read and understand if you have 3rd~5th grade education.[/QUOTE]
You're quoting a post I made before those people posted.
I like lightcms personally
I use HTML files.
[QUOTE=pro ruby dev;27427196]I use HTML files.[/QUOTE]
I remember them. Didn't we used to fill them with marquee tags and tables?
[QUOTE=Cluckyx;27449969]I remember them. Didn't we used to fill them with marquee tags and tables?[/QUOTE]
Marquee, you say?
[url]http://www.qombat.me/[/url]
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