CMS for website

[SpearPoint]

Hi Everybody,

Since this has to do with bootstrapping the business, I guess it's a "Basics" question. Have any of you experimented with CMS's for your company web sites? I guess I'm really curious to hear experiences balancing the dev time for home-made vs. rigidity and speed of deployment.

If it's worth anything to anyone, I've looked at Geeklog, Wordpress, and Movable Type.

[oNyx]

Try a search for "CMS".

I'm using Drupal for most things. Its suitable for pretty much all kinds of medium-sized websites (where "medium" is anything between tiny and gigantic). Well, there is no need to repeat myself... do a search for "drupal", too.

[killarkai]

You may also check out TextPattern. From my experience WordPress looks neater out of the box and usage is more pleasant to the average user, while TextPattern is more flexible and should please the more advanced users.
I've yet to check out other CMS's.

[POedBoy]

I recommend cms made simple( http://cmsmadesimple.org )

I think I'm just really picky about such things, but I haven't been too fond of the other opensource cms's I've looked at. Cmsms doesn't have the amount of support and add-ons that something like joomla's got, but I can live with that.

Well sort of. Forum integration is something it needs badly, and the punbb forum mod didnt work for me so I had to manually add it( not very pretty but it works ).

Overall though, I'd say its pretty good. It doesn't force you into any weird workflow..you can set it up as you see fit. Its just very easy to use.

For various reasons I want to roll my own cms, and I've had some false starts on it. But thats opening up a big can of worms. I'm one guy, and times against me in a big way... cmsms is the best option for me right now.

[Matthew Doucette]

I use CityDesk (http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/) for my (non video game) website (Xona.com (http://xona.com/)), but the company has no plans on ever updating it. So keep that in mind.

Check out some links on del.icio.us to see what's popular:
http://del.icio.us/popular/cms