CMS Game Compant Websites?

[Sean Doherty]

How many people use Drupal or another CMS product for their websites? I'm primarily wondering about people who are actually selling games? If you using one of these products can you state the name of the product and any pros and cons?

Thanks

[mustardseed]

I gotta give my recommendation to use Wordpress. It's really powerful, has tons of plugins available for it, and it's very easy to "theme" it.

Also it's not as bloated as many larger CMS's since it's intended to be a powerful blog system.

I've heard good things about the newest version of Drupal. I have used older versions and I didn't like it, but they supposedly rewrote the whole management part in the newer version. TWIT.tv uses it and they recommend it highly so check it out too.

Just avoid something like Joomla (Mambo). Those are huge, confusing, and very bloated.

[Sean Doherty]

I gotta give my recommendation to use Wordpress. It's really powerful, has tons of plugins available for it, and it's very easy to "theme" it.

Also it's not as bloated as many larger CMS's since it's intended to be a powerful blog system.

I've heard good things about the newest version of Drupal. I have used older versions and I didn't like it, but they supposedly rewrote the whole management part in the newer version. TWIT.tv uses it and they recommend it highly so check it out too.

Just avoid something like Joomla (Mambo). Those are huge, confusing, and very bloated.

I could be wrong, but I didn't think there were that many people using Word Press for their game company sites? I know I lot of people use it for Blogs, but I didn't think it was used for much more than a Blogging site?

Thanks

[mustardseed]

It's definitely mainly used for blogs, but it can easily be used as a smaller-sized CMS. I'm currently using wordpress to build a new site for a pretty popular client His site gets quite a bit of traffic and has quite a bit of content, and wordpress was the right choice for his site.

You should at least check it out, but also check out the new drupal. You can test these and a ton of other CMS's at http://www.opensourcecms.com

[Sean Doherty]

How is Word Press and the new Drupal for Friendly Url's and SEO?

[mustardseed]

I know wordpress is supposed to be pretty good about havign friendly URLs. It might need an extra plugin to be turned on though. I'm not sure. Also I'm not sure about drupal.

You could go to their respective sites and ask on their forums.

[James C. Smith]

It's not exactly a game web site but I use Joomla for www.game-sales-charts.com

[oNyx]

Drupal supports clean urls out-of-the box. And there is a module for keywords (even if they arent really useful anymore).

Drupal is modular, very flexible, rather good documented, the code is very clean and it behaves pretty good under heavy load (enable caching and eventually throtteling).

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html

[Cartman]

I use Drupal on mine and love it. The community is great and very helpful and the modules that users have created are very cool.

[Nexic]

Mambo CMS for me.

Pro: Free, quite easy to use, saves a lot of time
Cons: I've had to hack the code a couple of times to do things I want.