CMS / Wiki Software -- Favorites?

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I've been looking to setup a CMS / Wiki / Blogging software to create a new website and was wondering if anybody had any favorites. I'm really looking for something extensible and relatively easy to add functionality to. Obviously there are the big ones, Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki ... Anyone have any preferences?

Bradml

Can you let us know what the site is for?

Brad Australian The PHP MVP - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

requesttimedout

Well its still kind of vague at this point. Basically a personal website to mess around with and use for learning. I know that each of them can do what the others can do to some extent, but MediaWiki is a better wiki than Drupal, and Drupal is a better CMS than MediaWiki. If you were going to pick one that a site could grow into depending on requirements in the future, which would you recommend? But to throw some requirements out there to give a starting point: Something to keep track of games scores / results, basic forum and blog support, RSS, and can plug into either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Also the lighter it is on resources the better. I plan on running it with Lighttpd and not Apache. I'd prefer one written in PHP, but if it's Python and has enough of a difference to justify trying it out I'd give it a shot. But any thoughts on which ones handle plug ins and extensions better than others, upgrades, migrations etc.. Any input on one vs. the other that I won't notice until I've used it for six months.

alex barylski

Most CMS are extensible via modules. I like the Drupal codebase but the interface is confusing I find. Joomla and Mambo are bloated and really complex. CMS Made Simple is a decent interface (not very pretty but functional) and the modules are easy to add and develop. TypoLight is a awesome CMS -- very pretty -- at times confusing and extendable via modules. The codebase is probably one of the best for open source I have ever seen, at least some what following an MVC architecture. Best of all, TypoLight is all about accesibility so pages validate which is nice. There are literally countless others (CMS is a saturated market) I even wrote my own a few years back as a quick and dirty application to let clients easily update pages. www.sourceforge.net/projects/texocms You may also want to check out: www.opensourcecms.com Cheers :)

I'm finding the only constant in software development is change it self.

Michael Sync

For blogging software, I'm a big fan of Wordpress. I'm currently using wordpress for my blog and I've been using it for more than two years... For Wiki, I think MediaWiki might be better. I'm thinking to use it for one of my sites. I bought one domain for that site but haven't installed yet. So, I can't say MediaWiki is the best for me or not but I heard that it's pretty good one.

Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

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I do recommend Joomla. and ready for help at any level! regards, Rami Al Nairab TELECOMME.net rami@telecomme.net