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For those of you who maintain your own website or domain and use a CMS, what do you use?

What CMS do you use? What do you like about it? What do you not like about it? And, would you recommend it to others?


A similar question that asks about what your workplace uses.

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For my personal use, I write simple plain text "tutorial-type-for-self" documents. And I use "grep" to search within the documents. Works great for me!

When I feel like others may also need it, I put it on my project's wiki or wherever it's appropriate on our Intranet.

If it's more general, I blog it. (I use Blogger as my blogging platform.)

artknish
+1  A: 

Currently I'm using a file/markdown based system and some shell scripts, a la Jekyll.

troelskn
+3  A: 

WordPress.

It's easy to install, easy to mantain and expand.

It's not real CMS, but it is timesaver if you are on your own.

dmajkic
We've had problems with system break-ins with it (alas) so take great care to lock it down hard. (No, I can't discuss the details, in part because it was my colleagues who deployed it and who cleaned up the mess.)
Donal Fellows
+1  A: 

Drupal

Roger Lipscombe
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The last job I worked at used Sitecore 6. I have to see it was great to work with. It was super fast, and development was fast. http://www.shields.com was completed from a development standpoint in a week.

phsr
+4  A: 

Various, depending on needs and requirements. One size does not fit all.

  • ExpressionEngine (PHP, very nice but not free, relatively inexpensive, though)
  • Radiant (Ruby/Rails, super-easy for your users to add content, minimal set-up)
  • Drupal (PHP, better for larger sites requiring varied roles, access permissions, lots of plug-ins, not quite so easy as ExpressionEngine or Radiant)
  • Home-grown (PHP/MySQL)
Clayton
+1 for Radiant/FrogCMS
Bob Aman
+3  A: 

I use Graffiticms by telligent. It's easy to use, simple to install and comes with some very nice templates.

mreith
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I use WordPress for most of my sites. It is easy to create themes/templates and has a huge set of plugins and a large community of developers and users. It isn't for everything, there are obvious limitations, but it is perfect for 95% of the websites that I design.

imsoper
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We use DotNetNuke at Mindbase Consulting. Based on .NET, so easy for our in-house developers to customize.

Ryan Shripat
+2  A: 

My personal site runs Jekyll with some Ajax added in with jQuery, while my wife's site is a simple WordPress blog. I like Jekyll, since I'm a major tinkerer... My wife likes the point and click-ness of Wordpress.

mwalling
+1  A: 

I have been using MODx and TYPO3 most often recently.

Mark Hurd
TYPO3 is one of those CMSes you want to avoid if at all possible.
Bob Aman
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Joomla is really easy to get up and running. You can easily extend it with templates, and there is a large community that uses it.

David Robbins
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try http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-site-creator/ it's for gaagle application engine you will find a simple content management system if you need only publishing html/files. its a very good solution

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My company Percussion CMS offers a content management system which has an implementation of about 5 weeks vs. an ecms which is anywhere from 6-12 months. Capabilities include; Web 2.0, surf to edit, personalization and easily scalable. Compared to hosted sites our system is decoupled so information is stored safely. It all really depends on the purpose that drives the purpose for this investment. Do you want to interact with your on-line community? Be able to organize, create and modify content more efficiently?

Aja Vitti
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I use MODX. It's the very first CMS I've ever used, coming from a background of CSS/XHTML and design. It was very easy to set up and learn and there are no pre-set templates to hack like on Wordpress. You use your own code to create the templates. My experience with it so far has been great. Has very useful plugins to extend functionality and an active forum community to help you out. It is easy for clients to use to edit, too-- from the front or back end. Plus, it's free!

McFly88
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If you use .NET I recommend you Umbraco

Albert