Comments on: Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options

By: Adrian Borkala

Adrian Borkala — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:56:51 +0000

Just on the points regarding the CMS working intuitively and being easy to use for non geeks…
There are far too many products that don’t consider the users, and seem to be simply designed to provide a lot of functionality and flexibility if you ever eventually get to grips with how you need to piece your web site together in order to make the site work within the CMS.
I think a handful of CMS’s are now understanding this and providing a simple method to integrate with a website but still I feel too many still require you to chop up a website, in order to even start to edit a page.
I know this subject isn’t really about e-commerce systems but there are a lot of similarities between a CMS and an e-commerce system, and in fact we should see more products which allow you to use a single product to manage a website and at any stage, introduce e-commerce functionality. Although you’re able to do this with tools such as wordpress, you often need to use third party products that don’t always integrate with the CMS well.

I like wordpress however I think this can be a little overcomplicated for a lot of people, and isn’t really useful if you already have a website without a CMS – which is often the problem with most CMS’s.
Just to complete my note about e-commerce… Shopify seems to be the only product that makes the job simple, and provides a CMS element which is easy to use.

Adrian
GingerPenguin

By: Bria Jones

Bria Jones — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:35:45 +0000

I need help finding a CMS for a project I’m working on. I have never used a open source CMS before.

My main requirements include:
1. Ability to have pages/sections only accessible to register users
2. Ability to pay for a subscription
3. Ability to make comments on pages
4. Easily update links and content
5. House hundreds of downloadable documents
6. Video integration

Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

By: alice

alice — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:38:54 +0000

Thanks for this great share. This site is a fantastic resource. Keep up the great work here at Sprint Connection! Many thanks.

By: K R

K R — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:14:34 +0000

I am a non technical person in the initial stages of trying to find something to work with for my new site. Thanks for the writeup on these 10 products, it is a bug help.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:22:02 +0000

A well written article and has given me some food for thought.

From my own experience I always tend to go with WordPress for any type of blogging site (it’s really the default option), Magento for e-commerce and if the end user wants the easiest updating process possible I always plump for Concrete5.

With Concrete5′s in-page editing feature it really is as simple as log in, navigate to the page you wish to edit, click the ‘Edit Page’ button and all the page’s editable content appears laid out exactly as it appears on the live site but with a red border around it. Click in one of these blocks, select edit and away you go – it really is foolproof. Once you’re done click on ‘Publish’ and there you have it.
I’ve used it for a number of sites now, specifically aimed at users who aren’t awfully tech-savvy and just want a simple CMS that doesn’t have much of a learning curve.

Also investigating MODx at the moment. I like the idea of being able to customise the backend…

Anyway, thanks again for a very useful article.

By: Frankie Bagnardi

Frankie Bagnardi — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:31:04 +0000

Great article! I’m looking for something simple that allows me (the dev) a lot of control. Frog just might be it.

Thanks!