I have tried and evaluated many CMS/blog platforms. Now I'm searching for something suitable for personal web site. Developers are still creating new CMS/blog platforms (including me), so there is huge amount of possible solutions.
I you aren't going after crowd, you have much greater choice than top 3 common open source blog platforms (like WordPress). Almost all of them match quite well for general folk's need. Just write pure text article, add picture or two, add some metadata sugar and voila! Maybe I am a perfectionist- but I can't see ONE outstanding open source engine. There are huge platforms with a lot of features (when you really need only 3 of them). On the other end there are quite nice lite, minimalist engines lacking most of desired and sexy functionalities. The good side is that good lite engines are ready for easy integration with additional modules/plugins, but it's for coding/configuration work loving types.
The main differences between CMS platforms are:
I you aren't going after crowd, you have much greater choice than top 3 common open source blog platforms (like WordPress). Almost all of them match quite well for general folk's need. Just write pure text article, add picture or two, add some metadata sugar and voila! Maybe I am a perfectionist- but I can't see ONE outstanding open source engine. There are huge platforms with a lot of features (when you really need only 3 of them). On the other end there are quite nice lite, minimalist engines lacking most of desired and sexy functionalities. The good side is that good lite engines are ready for easy integration with additional modules/plugins, but it's for coding/configuration work loving types.
The main differences between CMS platforms are:
- system platforms and storage backends
- level of customization
- indexing and searching
- support for additional plugins
- spam/security management
- scalability
- workflow and authoring
- other specific needs
So, if you are getting into it seriously think about that additional requirements, and check sites like cmsmatrix or articles about blog software comparison.
Most of the people just want to use CMS in easy and comfortable way. I've landed on blogger.com hosted service planet, because of my low expectations and lack of time. Ok, maybe brand behind it and knowledge that those kinds of services are changing helped me to take that decision. But what is the real reason behind that decision? Maybe I've saved time to write another veryPowerfulCMS? :) Oh no! Life is something more like that and there are more interesting activities.
Anyway who needs today slick, pluggable, easy to integrate with another services, with customizable fields and content CMS framework? Anybody?
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