Content Management Software?

by TheHappy4

Posted: 13 years ago 11 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Looking to use one of these to create my site on hostgator. Which do you recommend and why? Thanks!

1. Joomla

2. Drupal

3. concrete5

4. ocPortal

#content #management #software

Shaun OReilly 13 years ago

None.

Use WordPress.

Why?

It is very easy to install and use.

There are a lot of WordPress themes and plugins that you
can use to create impressive and highly functional sites at
the click of a few buttons.

For example, you can use the OptimizePress theme to create
impressive looking squeeze pages and sales pages very, very
easily.

You can use a plugin like WishList Member to create membership
sites very, very easily.

Plus there's a whole lot of other plugins that can make your
site very effective too.

Dedicated to your success,

Shaun
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- TheHappy4 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Shaun OReilly
  
  None.
  
  Use WordPress.
  
  Dedicated to your success,
  
  Shaun
  
  Thanks for the reply. Already have Wordpress for my blog. Looking to have a non wordpress for my website.
  
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  Shaun OReilly 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheHappy4
  
  Already have Wordpress for my blog. Looking to have a non wordpress for my website.
  
  Is there a specific reason you don't want to use WordPress
  for your website?
  
  I like to have most sites managed by WordPress so that I
  can more effectively monitor the flow of people through
  my entire marketing process.
  
  I don't see the need to learn another CMS and complicate
  things further unless you have other reasons for not wanting
  to use WordPress specifically.
  
  Dedicated to your success,
  
  Shaun
  
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  Sandgrown 13 years ago
  
  If you are not very tecchy and looking for a non Wordpress solution then Joomla is by far the easiest to learn and has a larger user base.
  
  However, if you are ok with some coding then drupal is much more flexible and should be your choice.
  
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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

Most people when they "think" in terms of WordPress blog vs. web site... are bothered by the look of the theme because blogs have certain common characteristics (layout, navigation, post meta info etc.).

However, the theme system in WP is flexible enough to give any look to your site built with WP. It's just a matter of design...

Do you have any specific requirements for your site/content that cannot be done with WP?
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- Shannon Herod 13 years ago
  
  I agree with Shaun,
  
  I use WordPress for ever single one of my websites.
  
  I can use WordPress for my opt in pages, sales pages and thank you pages.
  
  WordPress really is a complete solution if you know how to work with it.
  
  I actually use the headway theme and can make my site look like any site I want.
  
  I can completely customize every single aspect of the entire site with just a couple slides of the mouse.
  
  It is absolutely amazing.
  
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Alfred Shelver 13 years ago

Another vote for wordpress .... long gone are the days that WP is only a Blog platform it must be by far the best and most customizable option rich CMS platforms available.

I have seen other far more tech savvy friends on Joomla with their sites and I always get better results , in both design and performance
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Firstrate 13 years ago

Wordpress is my stable but recently I've been using Joomla for more interactive sites and it's really surprised me. What an amazing tool.
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dvduval 13 years ago

Since we make our own software, we make our sites with our software (which is very much a CMS).
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jasonboom 13 years ago

Joomla is awesome. I've been using it for years. They have a very large extension (plugin) library that can offer a lot of improvements over the base framework. They update frequently and have a good support forum. I can't speak to the other options because I've never used them.
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- John Lenaghan 13 years ago
  
  I'm going to go with several of the other comments and say that Wordpress is my CMS of choice. It has the most support behind it, in my experience, and a lot of stuff that is specific to things we do in the internet marketing world.
  
  But having said that, it doesn't answer your question so...
  
  Of the 4 you listed in the poll, I've only used Joomla and Drupal. And I haven't used the current version of either.
  
  But from my experience with them, Joomla needed less technical prowess than Drupal, but Drupal was more configurable if you didn't mind digging into the tech side of it a bit.
  
  I set up a couple of sites with Drupal and really liked the way it handled different user levels. You could almost create two independent sites running on the same domain, with different things showing to different levels of user.
  
  But being a geek, I found myself spending way too much time fiddling and not enough time getting stuff done. I wound up returning to Wordpress because of the number of add-ons and the fact that I know it like the back of my hand.
  
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