Recomend me a simple CMS?

Skeeter · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:30

Hi all

Can anyone recomend a simple and free PHP/MySQL based CMS system to setup a very simple website. It will contain mainly static information, with just a simple news page and simple downloads section for a few files, but will need to be updatable (content wise) by a complete techno noob (my sister).

Ive used PHPNuke in the past, but its waaaaay to complex for this. Ive installed CMS Made Simple on a site... but its anything from simple and has very little support documents, or support in any way. I really like the look and feel and simplicity of mojoPortal, but unfortunately its ASP.NET and my web host doesnt support this.

Any recomendations? Basically the most simple and idiot proof CMS you can think of that will still allow me to make it look nice (and clean, none of this stuff all over the place like PHPNuke) and allow very simple in browser content updating.

Thanks!

Lethal` · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:43

Have a look at Joomla and Drupal.

It is also possible to do this with wordpress which is easy to use and can be customised a with plugins, widgets, themes etc.

malef!c · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:59

If you don't need something as heavy as Joomla etc you might want to look at Modx.
Simple, no bells and whistles but easy to update with content now and again.

Skeeter · 11 Feb 2009 at 12:54

Cheers guys, ill have a look at your sugestions

leezer3 · 11 Feb 2009 at 13:49

PHP-Fusion, no contest

-Leezer-

Skeeter · 12 Feb 2009 at 20:09

Will take a look too, cheers

Inazuma · 12 Feb 2009 at 22:09

Textpattern is the preference of Jon Hicks and John Oxton (both notable designers from the UK, who also run a podcast http://therissingtonpodcast.co.uk/).

http://textpattern.com/

I personally use wordpress as it seems to have the best admin interface and is easily skinnable.

P5yt3k · 13 Feb 2009 at 02:08

Drupal is definitely easier to use than Joomla, and wordpress is even easier still, and if its just static pages its really simple.

Skeeter · 15 Feb 2009 at 23:15

Cheers guys

been looking around at opensourcecms.com and so far like the look of Concrete 5. Its very simple and the editor is very noob friendly. But I will keep looking.