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Ask HN: CMS for mostly static brochure-ware style small business websites?
Looking for recommendations for content management systems for mostly static brochure-ware style small business websites that we freelancers are so often asked to do.
Features needed:
* Easy editing by people comfortable in word processors (the client)
* Easy to make use of an HTML template (standard header, content area footer, single CSS file, etc.)
Don't need:
* A blog or news section
* A forum, a guestbook, comments on pages, social media add-ins
* Abstractions for pages, movable content modules, etc
Given enough time and energy I could roll my own, but I'm sure there are packages out there already. I should be able to host Ruby/Rails or PHP apps easily enough.
Thanks!
- bigiain 15y agoWordpress. It's a startlingly competent CMS these days, and for "easy editing" it probably can't be beat - it's well built from an editors backend perspective, and there's no end of more or less useful tutorials about using it(and nearly everyone knows someone who's used wordpress before).
- greyhat 15y agoThanks for responding. I've tried Wordpress for this purpose in the past, and just took a look at it again, but since I don't need, and in fact don't want a blog or comments, these are just extra complexity that need disabled. In the several minutes I looked, I could not even find a global comments disable option. (Unless this is different for Wordpress.com hosted blogs.) Also, Wordpress has such a bad reputation for security that I would be hesitant to use it even if it offered the best in page organization and editing. This could just be a consequence of it being the biggest target, but its not something I want to deal with.
- bigiain 15y agoI hear you, but if your experience is with pre version 3 intallations of Wordpress, I will urge you to try again - they started getting a lotof stuff right in the 2.8-2.9 timeframe, and the version 3+ releases are, as I mentioned, really quite good little CMSes. Have a look at http://www.tokens.com.au/ http://www.tokens.com.au/ for example. On the security reputation front, yeah, Wordpress does have a somewhat deserved bad rep, but the only times I (or any of our customers) have been bitten, it's been ultra-cheap shared hosting that's laelyt blame (along with Wordpresses php-reliance and it's need for guessable-path world writeable directories in the web root...)
- MortenK 15y agowww.cushycms.com is pretty usable for that purpose.
- 4midori 15y agoI'm an evangelist for ExpressionEngine. Open-architecture, built on CodeIgniter. Lots of add-ons, many free. Very easy tag-based template language.
- gadders 15y agoI quite like: http://www.couchcms.com/ http://www.couchcms.com/ as well. Not used it in anger yet, but planning to.
- shoeless 15y agoTake a look at Concrete5. Fantastic, contemporary UI that is very quick on the uptake. Simple templating, built-in search, form builder, extensible, add-on modules, free and for-pay templates, good developer community. We've worked with Wordpress, Drupal, DNN, and others, but C5 hits the sweet spot and is always our preference.