CMS Talk 1.01 - What are you using?
Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 00:44.
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What CMS do you use? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it?
I've been using Drupal for a few months now on Muncie Free Press. I really like it, and I think I've been able to differentiate it from having a 'normal blog' look. I also like all the modules available - the large developer community. There's not much I don't like about it, but it does give me headaches sometimes when I'm trying to combine things to get Drupal to do cool things.
I also wonder how well it will scale. I know you can always throw hardware at it, but that's expensive. I haven't had too many problems to date even with all the modules I'm using to customize the site.
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Expression Engine
I use Expression Engine.
It's a rich and relatively easy to use system. It does everything you're likely to need for publishing a great site. Although it's commercial, the license is very affordable and more than pays for itself (at least in my experience) with its excellent technical support.
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Barry Parr
Publisher, Coastsider
WordPress
We use WordPress (since yesterday afternoon, when we launched the revamped sites at fultondailynews.com and oswegodailynews.com). But we like Expression Engine and very nearly used it for our revamp out of the open source ezPublish.
EE has a slightly simpler interface for publishing, I think. But WordPress won us over with its professional development team that is supported by hundreds of developers around the world who develop useful plugins.
We can simply do more with WP than we could have with EE. My staff has been through three software changes (this one's the last, I swear!) and say this one's by far the best. My only concern is how robust this software will be when it's storing thousands of posts and pictures. We run, between staff-written stories and reader contributed press releases and such, at least 20 - 30 new pieces of content per day. ezPublish cracked under the weight of all that content. There's no way to know whether WP will do the same, but it made me feel safer knowing it's in use in some very large places.
We are using EE for some of the content websites we build for clients.
content versus design/modules
The big developer community is one of the reasons I went with Drupal.
In the end, it's all about the content and the community, though.
Interesting to hear what everyone's using and why, though.
That's *Wordpress*? Wow.
I had no idea you could do that much with it.
Thanks, Barry.
And welcome to the site. I'll check that out.
Would love to have your thoughts on using a common CMS in another thread here.
Also your thoughts on this site and how to make it better - more valuable. I know all of our time is precious.
Thanks,
kpaul