Comparison of CMS products

#1

Post by gmercer » Thu, Jun 19, 2008, 11:37 PM UTC

I was wondering if anyone has experience with any CMS products?

What were the good points? What were the ugly points?

We are evaluating, Drupal, Joomla, Sharepoint, Ektron, SiteCore, Hannon Hill, Revize, and EpiServer.

Any comments on any of these?

Thanks very much for any help you can offer.

Re: Comparison of CMS products

#2

Post by SwellJoe » Fri, Jun 20, 2008, 12:33 AM UTC

Here's a summary for all of them:

It sucks.

Here's a couple threads where I've talked about my CMS experiences in more detail (I've deployed five CMS systems over the past 6 or 7 years):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186021

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61003

Re: Comparison of CMS products

#3

Post by tjr » Fri, Jun 20, 2008, 1:32 AM UTC

If you just want a fairly basic website... article content with (or without) user comments... http://www.cmsmadesimple.org is rather nice in my opinion. There are some "advanced" modules, but most of them (last I checked) were fairly underdeveloped.

Otherwise, I agree with SwellJoe. The effort required to force the CMS into doing what you want it to do can grow hideous. I built an online community site a couple years ago, and was a much happier camper writing only the code I needed myself.