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Whilst I would never use anything other than ExpressionEngine myself nowadays as it does everything I am going to need to do for quite a while I did notice this one today in an RSS feed :

Concrete 5 CMS

Might be helpful for some people. I haven’t tried it out or anything but just thought people may not have seen it yet.

Best wishes,

Mark

wow..yet another new cms. Thanks for the link dude.

wow..yet another new cms. Thanks for the link dude.

No problem 😉 I get them all the time in my RSS feeds. Don’t usually check them out though as I’m 100% happy with ExpressionEngine but I suppose that they might be useful for other people of course.

Best wishes,

Mark

I’ll second what Leslie said. While I do tend to lean to EE for contracts that have the money I will use other CMSs when budgets are tight or when the needs are specific enough that it is warranted. Wordpress, Joomla, SquareSpace? I think we all work with them all…

Agreed. While most of those who hang around here are very high on EE, there are plenty of decent, though decidedly different, CMS solutions.

WordPress - it can’t be easier to set up a CMS than WP, which, to my experience is now officially ‘mature’, though still more of a blogging tool than a full-fledged CMS; history of security issues.

Joomla - easy setup, decent support community, plenty of attractive templates for sale (hint, EE folks), and lots of bells and whistles.

TextPattern - seems somewhat similar to EE in structure, low cost, still requires under the hood fiddling, though, and doesn’t have much development going on these days.

Drupal - more complex, seems to require plenty of PHP knowledge to make it work (unlike EE which works fine with EE tags, XHTML, CSS right out of the box; history of security issues.

Moveable Type - great CMS for heavy traffic site, but my eyes blistered trying to figure out the tags.

SilverStripe - tried it out this weekend. Lots of promise as the templates are simple to master, but EE puts it to shame.

If you like to tinker in PHP then you’ll enjoy any of those, but if you can’t spell PHP, but have a handle on XHTML and CSS, then EE’s tags will get you running quickly, with a long and powerful learning curve to future CMS greatness.

Aside from Rick’s devotion to quality and support, the single best feature of EE is the combo of Templates and Tags. Nothing I’ve used is a good.

I have to say I’ve used Wordpress for smaller projects when the budget was tight, but ended up with more to deal with once Client’s needs grew & I could get stuck with things I couldn’t do in WP (without a crazy extent of knowledge in PHP) of which in EE I could achieve easily using Tags.

I’ve been running a WP personal blog for a while now, and now I’m doing 2.0 and will switch to EE. Even the CP is more ‘profy’ (read:professional). Once you show it to the Client what they will be dealing with, they feel they’re in control.

Overall, I think WP, Drupal, and others are good tools to play around with, however the slickness of EE and especially its Support & the Community around it are the ones that will get me going everyday.

Not to mention the fact that EE is rock solid dependable. EE’s Templates are gold. A very complicated and complex site can be created just using EE’s tags and Templates. You don’t even need to know how to spell PHP.

I am really impressed with Marks link to Concrete 5

Not so much as a CMS but their WYSIWIG editor is pretty nice, although limiting in the CSS realm probably the nicest I have seen. I would like to see something like that for EE.