Which Content Managment System?

[rpguk]

I manage the development of quite a few websites a year and am keen to choose a CMS that I can roll out for future projects. As it's going to be used quite extensively I don't mind investing time in learning.

It's important that it can be totally customised looks wise, I don't want to put out sites which all have the same layout and just different colours and graphics.

Easy development of modules is a bonus.

Ease of use for end user once it's all been set up is important.

Freeware is obviously a bonus but I don't mind paying if the end result is superior.

Developed in Perl or PHP a must.

So what CMS's do people on here use? Pro's/Cons?

[hawkaye]

modx, this matches your requirements exactly

It's so easy to work with. I created a site for an estate agent, my father in law is the property manager and in charge of updating the site. He doesn't even know how to copy and paste in windows, but manages the site perfectly well!

oops, not sure about the perl part, I only do xhtml/css/php.

Edited by hawkaye on Thursday 24th January 22:01

[skeggysteve]

Not an expert but I have used Joomla and found very good.
It is a free one but there seemed to a lot of support etc. available.
Could be worth a look.

[agent006]

skeggysteve said:

Not an expert but I have used Joomla and found very good.

We use Joomla, it fing rocks. Really stable, easy to customise (we do have an excellent web developer though) and easy to manage and add content. Ours is http://www.hesa.ac.uk if you want to see what it can be customised to. Ours backs onto mySql which hasn't exactly been all that great. There are plans afoot to make Joomla Oracle compatable, at which point it'll be pretty much perfect.