I say "non-free" because I'd like to see what CMS tools are out there beyond the normal Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress debate.
Just your favorite!
I say "non-free" because I'd like to see what CMS tools are out there beyond the normal Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress debate.
Just your favorite!
Sitefinity. Wonderfull for any .NET programmer - very extensible, good architecture behind it.
This would probably be Ellington CMS. While Ellington CMS itself is not a general purpose product, the foundation it builds on is Django. You can easily build complex sites if you learn a little programming -- and maybe it isn't even necessary because there are more and more high-quality third party applications around that you can just drop in.
Ektron cms400.NET is a very powerful system. It has a ton of built in features.
One of my favorite features is that you can set up XML-based content types. The users edit in a nice WYSIWYG editor, and you can get the data out as XML and manipulate it any way you need.
RedDot is pretty good from a UI perspective, and I've certainly made some cash off interwoven sites over the years....
but these days, the free stuff is so compelling, I'd hesitate to rule it out. I get a lot of leverage off of openCMS, which is pretty solid, if your tastes run to Java instead of PHP.
Would have to say Kentico. The Content Editing interface is far superior to anything else I've seen. Very easy for non-tech users.
Sitefinity. It is pure joy to create normal ASP.NET UserControls and be able to easily drag, drop & customize them on your web pages via a web browser. There is an online demo on the web site.
My favourite is Tridion. Whether it's a good fit for you is another question. Tridion is a high end product targeting mainly large corporations and the like, often with significant requirements for local or translated content combined with global brand management.
RedDot CMS is good. LiveServer is a lot trickier to get working with it. For the price, it may be worth just using RedDot CMS and roll your own backend.
We've used Sitefinity at my work quite successfully too.
RedDot/OpenText is absolute hell. We're currently using it and there isn't a single person here that likes it. It's a PITA to use, EXPENSIVE, poorly supported, poorly documented and unintuitive. We're currently looking at DotNetNuke, SiteFinity and Ektron as replacements for it.