Friday, March 14, 2008

CMS(pring) Cleaning

It seems that Joomla has won over the hearts and content management needs of two of my clients. I am currently converting over two static sites over to Joomla 1.5. Though Joomla is definitely my CMS flavor of choice it doesn't always fit an organization or person's web needs so I would recommend Drupal and Wordpress. I have had experience working with both and can't say enough praises about both of them. Not only are they FREE, but provide a flexible framework that satisfies 80% of a user's or organizations needs out of the box. The remaining 20% is fulfilled by a large online development community as well as their tried-and-true API.

So before someone tries to sell you on a monolithic, bloated CMS that constantly needs paid support, and costly upgrades see what an open source CMS can do for you.