tags:

views:

21

answers:

2
Q: 

What is the 'best' Content Management System for low visits?

I need to build a website that keeps the content & appearance themes separate. I figured that a content management system is the best way to achieve this goal. I expect the user base to be hundreds of hits a day. What is the best content management system for:

  • Speed (given the low visits)
  • Development & maintenance (cost of hiring developers & maintaining the system, ability to upgrade to new versions of the system while keeping my customized code separate)
  • Availability of free themes
A: 

Check some of these babies out.

rockinthesixstring  2010-10-18 22:34:33
Thank you. I was familiar with the existence of Django-CMS; didn't know about Pinax. I'll check it out.
Swami  2010-10-18 22:44:46
If you're on Linux and are familiar with PHP, I'd personally lean into Joomla! or Wordpress. They are very widely supported and have lots of added goodies.
rockinthesixstring  2010-10-18 22:46:01
Swami  2010-10-18 23:19:56
I've used Drupal a little bit. It is widely used in large installations. I worked on the university of Calgary drupal site ( http://ucalgary.ca ), and found it more difficult than Joomla, but far more powerful.
rockinthesixstring  2010-10-18 23:35:04
I have not personally used Pinax or Radiant, I've just read that they're good.
rockinthesixstring  2010-10-18 23:35:34
A: 

Personally I have had good success with Joomla. Wordpress is also good but I have seen some people have a harder learning curve with it than with Joomla.

pilotgallo2  2010-10-18 22:38:45
How is the speed of Joomla? I was wondering if it is too bloated, making it slower than alternatives for my simple requirements.
Swami  2010-10-18 22:47:22
I have never felt that Joomla was bloated or slow as long as you don't load a tone of ad-ons(true of most cms systems). I have sometimes felt that Wordpress is too bloated out of the box especially on shared hosting servers with limited resources.
pilotgallo2  2010-10-18 22:49:32
Any opinions on Drupal?
Swami  2010-10-18 23:19:16

related questions

Are there any .NET content management systems that focus on usability and leave out the bloat?
Adding a custom style to content editor
Add fields to the Site information section on Drupal 6.12
What is fatwire from programmer perspective?
What's the best way to collaborate and distribute project and release documentation within an organization?
Limiting number of computers from which users can access ASP.NET website?
What is the most flexible Open Source Content Management System?
WordPress or Community Server or N2?
Open Source Facebook-like CMS social network?
What's the best way to embed HTML within a HTML page in a content management system?
Content Management - ASP.NET Recommendations
Content Management for posting articles
If you had to pick a free CMS to integrate with ASP.NET MVC what would you pick?
Tool or library for comparing xml files.
Examples of large scale Open Source CMS deployments?
What Content Management System do you use?
DAM Solutions for full-length movies
Providing a content management solution
Setup Content Server
asp.net CMS solution: best mechanism for storing the data in SQL
What is the best open source .NET content management system (CMS)?
Terminalfour site manager - Content Management System
How to define Content Management
Using Alfresco Community in production?
What Content Management does your workplace use?