Comments on: Which is the best CMS in terms of usability?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:48:53 +0000

For smaller sites where you don’t need versioning, workflow or build-in multilanguage/multisite support, we have lots of success with MODx. Users instinctly seem to grasp it’s interface.

Of all the other PHP OS usual suspects i think TYPOlight and SilverStripe are promising, although they still have their quircks.

Still, if you really need advanced features like workflow, versioning, central multisite management, advanced ACL, enterprise deployment, AND you want usability, you are getting into Java/J2EE territory.

Myself, i am very much impressed by the power and usability of Magnolia, and also GX Webmanager is very powerfull and easy to use. Magnolia also has a free community edition, GX is commercial but has a free open source personal developers version.

Olaf

By: Nishant Patel

Nishant Patel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:01:03 +0000

I recently got a chance to work with Tridion. It is a commercial product with a favorable Gartner rating. It has some pretty cool feature but it lacks in usability. I just don’t see the content editors spending time to learn the system, which means the updates will have to be done by the web team which beats the whole purpose.

The commericial products are not cheap. One of the main reasons companies go with CMS is to enable delegated content editing. If this is not simple, content editors (business users) will not use it and the updates will have to be done by the web team.

By: Anil Gupta

Anil Gupta — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:25:32 +0000

I have worked with Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla.

I found that they all are bit difficult to manage at admin side, specially for non-technical administrator ( and bit for technical administrator too ).

Even I was looking for some simple to manage CMS.

I got two and those are :

1 – Website Baker ( http://start.websitebaker2.org/en/introduction.html )

2 – V2 CMS ( http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Content-Management-Code/V2-CMS-Content-Management-System/ )

By: Johnny5

Johnny5 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:01:16 +0000

I have used Ingeniux forever, there new version 6 is amazing!

By: Pradeep Gowda

Pradeep Gowda — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:48:47 +0000

Plone beats all of the above by a large margin. Plone has very good usability experts and takes accessibility very seriously. It passes a lot of the standard tests that most other CMSes wont. Plone is a darling of many a NGO and gov orgs just because of these reasons.

WP is not a CMS, though you can beat it to fit your definition of ‘CMS’.

If you are looking for a PHP CMS, textpattern is a good fit. It gives very good raw materials to start with. The layout etc is done using a XML-like tagging system, without having to haggle with php+markup mix.

By: R.Bhavesh

R.Bhavesh — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:56:24 +0000

well, most of the clients (not talking about HUGE companies) need small website and easy to update interface. They are not tech savvy and I think wordpress, if bend right could be the choicest CMS. Not to mention, it is still a blog system though.

Take a look at http://wpremix.com/ that I created. Makes the things easy in wordpress but again, it depends on the requirements.

By: Drupal-ista

Drupal-ista — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:23:22 +0000

Well – wp maybe excels in usability but i think from a certain project scope and complexity you go much better with Drupal. The WYSIWYG editor is easy to install – just get the FCKeditor module and untar it into sites/all/modules – done.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:09:26 +0000

I have worked on 2 drupal projects.. Drupal is very good but for any first time users drupal is very confusing.

I referred this book called ‘ Pro Drupal Development’ by John VanDyk & Matt Westgate

By: scorpfromhell

scorpfromhell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:28:43 +0000

Try Dokuwiki with a few plugins like TOC for helping you write a book. Additionally, you dont need a database backend, all articles/pages are stored in flat files (txt)!