CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

[Ted Roche]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:

> I would love a follow-up posting of this meeting.

I'll try to take good notes.

> I've been looking
> at WordPress over the past week and playing around with it on my
> laptop (If anyone has a Mac, and you want to play with LAMP stuff, get
> MAMP!)

I converted my blog to WordPress a while ago. Seems like a pretty  
solid project. But it is blog-specific software and not as flexible  
as a general-purpose CMS.

> I've been fairly impressed so far, but also planned on looking
> at Joomla! (with, imo, has a cooler name just because it sounds rather
> silly :)

You might look at http://www.cmsmatrix.org for comparisons between  
the different CMSes. However, I'll warn you in advance: it's seems  
like most of them have everything including the kitchen sink. It may  
be more useful to visit the forums of the leading contenders, get a  
sense of the tone of the community, try out the demos, etc.


Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com