CMS

[Dan Coutu]

Lori Hitchcock wrote:
> Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and 
> starting to look at CMS.  Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and 
> Drupal.  The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. 
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> Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of these? Does 
> any one have a positive experience with another CMS?
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Lori, you really need to first understand what you require the CMS to 
actually do before making a selection.

Joomla and Drupal both tend to be fairly hefty in terms of capability. 
You may not actually need all of that though. For clients with simpler 
needs I often will use Word Press because it provides the essentials of 
a CMS, is simple to use for non-technical people, and provides a good 
level of granularity with regard to content control mechanisms so that 
different sections of the site can be assigned to different people and 
the accounts can be prevented from editing other user's sections of the 
site.

Here are some of the key things I'd look for:

Do you have one person editing content or many?
Do you need content editing access controls?
Do you need e-commerce capability?
Do you need a blog?
Do you have existing content that you'll convert?
Do you handle lots of images?
Do you need to handle video or audio?
Do you want site visitors to be able to interact with the site? Such as 
commenting, responses, help requests, etc.
Do you need the site to integrate with other internal systems? What 
types of systems?

Hope this helps!

Dan