Which CMS for commercial website??? Drupal / Joomla / EE ExpressionEngin

lloydsj · 26 Sep 2007 at 15:52

Hi,

I am currently in the process of designing and implementing a website for a commercial project.

On our website, we will be looking to sell 3 or 4 products/packages. Once a user has signed-up and then purchased 1 of these products, they will then be given access to a custom form (that relates to the product they purchased) to enter details into the database. These details will then be searchable by all users (even when not logged in). A good analogy would be a dating site, whereby the user signs up and purchases a product, which in-turn gives them access to update their own details, which in-turn those details can then be searched and browsed by anyone visiting the website.

The CMS's I've narrowed it down to is...

Drupal
Joomla (Probably the old one, rather than the new one currently in RC2)
ExpressionEngine

Therefore my questions are...

1) Is the above scenario possible in any of these CMS's, without major custom development work? We ideally want to keep custom development work to a minimum, to hopefully: speed up the build process of the site; keep the site easily supportable and upgradable; keep costs down.

2) Does the CMS have a basic e-commerce solution available either built in or as an add-on that would allow us to sell these 3 or 4 packages? (We would ideally want it to then give them access to the custom form for them to fill in whilst logged in).

3) Does the CMS have the ability to create custom forms (via an add-on etc) to enter details, and then have these details searchable? or does this require custom development.

Cheers.
:confused:

lloydsj · 26 Sep 2007 at 22:46

Anyone done any sites like what i'm describing above, in a CMS, then???

SiriusB · 26 Sep 2007 at 23:38

You might be better off asking your questions in the respective CMS's forums or help desks.

Shoseki · 27 Sep 2007 at 21:08

Nothing personal, but if this is a commercial venture, if you don't have the experience to be able to deal with it yourself, it doesn't look very professional to turn and ask in a forum.

Either you can do the job or you can't, and you need to outsource it

lloydsj · 28 Sep 2007 at 11:00

Shoseki said:
Nothing personal, but if this is a commercial venture, if you don't have the experience to be able to deal with it yourself, it doesn't look very professional to turn and ask in a forum.

Either you can do the job or you can't, and you need to outsource it

Not at all... I have the skills to do it myself, but don't have the time. I was asking the questions to save me some time, as I hoped other people here had used these CMS's before. Futhermore, if someone was going to outsource work, it's alway a good idea to know what they want doing first... so they don't get sold something they don't want. :rolleyes:

Thanks anyway.

I'll do what SiriusB suggested.

Cheers.

Shoseki · 1 Oct 2007 at 10:16

lloydsj said:
Not at all... I have the skills to do it myself, but don't have the time. I was asking the questions to save me some time, as I hoped other people here had used these CMS's before. Futhermore, if someone was going to outsource work, it's alway a good idea to know what they want doing first... so they don't get sold something they don't want. Thanks anyway.

I'll do what SiriusB suggested.

Cheers.

Sorry, I didn't mean to envoke your ire. But "I was asking the questions to save me some time, as I hoped other people here had used these CMS's before." in a professional environment would equate to asking a consultant who's advice you could rely on, along with a hefty fee. The problem with asking questions in a forum like this, is that I could be Joe nobody giving you false information, or just confusing or using scare tactics to either promote myself or product of mine, or simply being ignorant and posting gibberish, which without your own judgment (which kinda negates the point of this process anyway) is worthless.

My general advice would be, choose whichever you will be most happy to support and maintain.