Wordpress is one of the best content management systems. You can easily setup wordpress websites and add, edit, modify your web content as well without any technical knowledge or you can design your website from a professional web design company in London.

Edited January 3, 201412 yr by kellyperth123

In my opinion, WordPress is always the best CMS for website designers.

There are so many free sources you can use such as free wordpress themes and plugins on wordpress.org.

Word Press is awesome But I have been working on Joomla for
many years Joomla is a flexible CMS that can be customized to meet specific project requirements such Corporate Web
sites or portals, Online magazines, newspapers, and publications, Small business Web sites, E-commerce and online reservations and more. Joomla is
highly extensible.

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Wordpress is ok but at times i find it can be a little restrictive especially when it comes to ecommerce, I find expression engine better as an all rounder, joomla and Drupal way too complex and not user friendly at all, text pattern is great for blogs and smaller sites but not much good for much else, I quite like Cushy cms and concrete 5 is another good one in general.

 

As you can probably tell, I have used, themed and tested quite a few

I use wordpress to almost all of my sites! I am a wordpress developer myself.

Honestly, it is best to match the CMS to the project and client. I never pick it based on what is best for "me".

For E commerce - undoubtedly Prestashop is best! \m/

Nice..

Edited November 4, 201411 yr by Swati

The most important point before choosing CMS is to know that why do you have to use one for than only you will be able to make a right choice. Magento is the top Content Management System. You can easily setup e-commerce websites to add, edit, modify your web content as well without any technical knowledge or you can easily design a responsive website - NetConnectWeb

I agree with you on it. But for an eCommerce website, then Magento is the best.

Couch CMS is a useful little tool.

 

For front enders it is very simple to use and just involves inserting some tags. It also means an existing static site can be easily retrofitted for CMS.

 

Free to use if a footer link is included and a license can be purchased to allow link removal and white labelling.

 

Well worth a look.

yes, I agree with you. WordPress is also very friendly.

Hey mate,

 

Thank you for sharing information about a wonderful website. It's really interesting and really helpful.

For eCommerce I use loaded Commerce.

If the customer just require a basic CMS i use PulseCMS and if they require more features I either go for Wordpress or Joomla 3 depending on their requirements.

Yes open source cms is the best CMS platform too. My friends suggest me to use Wordpres. I did use Wordpress for quite a long time. I am having grear experience with Wordpress. Now looking forward to work in open source platform.

Has anyone had any experience using SilverStripe? Would love to hear your experiences.

Edited May 12, 201511 yr by GoldenGatsby

Wow. This thread is nearly 8 years old. When this thread was created, I'd only just started creating websites that didn't use tables for layout...

 

Yeah, and people still suggest using Wordpress for their CMS.... yuck!

I prefer Wordpress. I've worked with many CMS but Wordpress seems to fit me the most.

I use WP, Joomla and Drupal but have never tried BlackCat.

I would try that one and see if it is any good and will share my thought with you in here after trying it out for some time

An age old question, but I hate to break it to you guys. There is no "Best" CMS.

 

Mike Johnston, the founder of CMS Critic, write something extremely relevant regarding this argument: WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are NOT the Best CMS.

 

He focuses on WordPress, Joomla and Drupal in the article, but it's clear that the same applies to all content management systems. Each project is unique, and thus requires its own approach. Sometimes WordPress fits, sometimes Shopify fits, sometimes Hippo CMS fits. It's all very relative.

 

It's more productive to have a long list of CMS that do cater to their niche well. Then you'll always have a library of systems to use no matter what project you have in mind. Relying on one CMS for all project times? A recipe for disaster.

which is the best cms for high school science subject forum website ?

Hi guys! How do you think, can I use WYSIWYG system to create an online store, with the possibility of online payments? Here is a link about this system http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-ivanovs/wysiwyg-website-builders_b_8814882.html

Guys! I would like to know your opinion. I am waiting...Please give.

I have read an article here and my opinion about this system - as I understand it, this template system is supposed to warrant responsiveness to a certain degree... the wix help center claims so anyway.

can you help me ? : http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/85315-whmcs-or-something-else/?p=508768

WordPress CMS is the best for me. It gives me peace of mind and the zeal to tweak endlessly. Currently studying to develop my own plugin for wordpress sites.

Wordpress is okay, but I feel like it detracts from your credibility you're running a blog. The .wordpress suffix doesn't look too professional. I personally like Joomla the most because it allows for really fast frontend editing

The .wordpress suffix doesn't look too professional.

This only applies to free sites hosted by wordpress. If you upgrade you can use your own domain name.

 

WordPress CMS is the best for me. It gives me peace of mind and the zeal to tweak endlessly. Currently studying to develop my own plugin for wordpress sites.

I use to think the same until the many (better) alternatives were pointed out to me. And there is no need to study to develop your own plugin, there are loads of framework plugins and tutorials you can use. Took me less than a day to build my first one. I now earn a decent amount from the things.

This only applies to free sites hosted by wordpress. If you upgrade you can use your own domain name.

 

I use to think the same until the many (better) alternatives were pointed out to me. And there is no need to study to develop your own plugin, there are loads of framework plugins and tutorials you can use. Took me less than a day to build my first one. I now earn a decent amount from the things.

I think in that case I'd rather just pay to use something like Squarespace. the themes look better in my opinion

This only applies to free sites hosted by wordpress. If you upgrade you can use your own domain name.

 

Eh? It is my understanding that a zillion hosting companies bundle or offer WP, free, and the user uses whichever domain name they own. No?

 

Eh? It is my understanding that a zillion hosting companies bundle or offer WP, free, and the user uses whichever domain name they own. No?

 

He's talking about wordpress.com, they offer free hosted blogs to anyone, but you're required to upgrade for additional features like having your own domain name.

I have been creating websites for clients for over 8 years now and supported over 500 clients with web development support, most of which with CMS

When it comes to the question of best CMS, the easiest and best CMS is WordPress, however, the downside of WordPress is it's easily prone to spammers and hackers if it's not installed and set up properly.

 

Expression Engine is a good CMS and is easy to learn and install.

 

If it is possible, it's always better to build custom CMS using one of the PHP frameworks like Laravel, Cake PHP, Code Igniter etc and there are plenty of libraries available for a beginner. The beauty of bespoke CMS is its the most secure and best solution for many clients.

 

Hope this helps

 

This is really useful CMS, I have been running 4 projects on the same and working fine for me as well.

These are the order of my preference. Each of these is very easy to design for. Create your design, then plug the cms content into it. No need to design around the cms.

Processwire - this has been my goto cms the past several years. It can take a while to wrap your head around it because there are many different ways to do things, but it's very powerful and flexible

Couch - similar to processwire, but easier to understand just because it's less comprehensive I think.

Pulse - I have hopes for this cms for very small, simple websites. It's a flat-file cms, no database. It's not free though and the new version, 5, had bugs the last time I tried it, but hopefully the coming revisions will get things ironed out.

No CMS - actually over the past few years, many of the sites I've created don't use a cms at all. Clients who initially thought they would edit sites themselves, end up not updating sites or by the time they get around to doing it, many forget how to use the cms anyway. I find I'm getting more clients who just email me updates, which frees me to create the site however I want.