[RickJ]

I've got easy Fantastico install options for these CMS:

Geeklog
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe

I want one solely for the purpose of allowing my website clients to have the ability to change things on their websites themselves.

I've never used one, so for now just want to choose the one that's easiest to learn and use.

Any opinions out there?

Thanks!

[LTheobald]

Good old cPanel & Fantastico. Nice and handy quick installs for a lot of handy apps. Anyway, as for choosiong one. Check out the feature list of each one to see what provides the most. Also check the support community to see if they have a good support base. Then finally - try a couple of them. Either install them or visit their home page for an online demo (e.g. Mambo).

Out of the ones mentioned, I would go with Mambo or Drupal. Those are the ones that I have seen mentioned the most on the internet.

[RickJ]

Thanks Lee. Since posting the question, I'm even more confuzed.

All I really want to do at this point is make the site - then designate areas that my client can edit herself.

I think a CMS is way overboard.

I'm now looking at something like Fckeditor but it's all french to me.

Is there an easy way that you know of to allow a client to edit parts (text) of her site herself?

[TechProNow]

I have used Mambo, and Xoops.

I like them both, and they both have great features and advantages.

I am particularly fond of Xoops though, I like the community mostly.

I have built many websites, either static or dynamic. But the thing that I like most about CMS systems, is that it is easy to integrate multiple modules together in the database, so that the entire site is uniform.

I am not the best PHP developer, and maybe that is why my liking for CMS systems is so strong.

I can integrate a shopping cart like ZenCart or OScommerce, with a forum, and a download section, and accept payments with a paid membership module and they all work together uniformily with the same login, and the same interface, and the same layout for all modules.

That is just beautiful.

I could do all of that on my own, even though my programming skills are weak.
But editing the tables in MySQL and connection a config file to work uniformily with all installed modules is fairly easy to do.

But to do it without all of the time overhead is AWESOME!

So yeah, CMS is a friend of mine, and I recommend Xoops!

Hope that helps!

[RickJ]

Thanks, TechPro.

Dreamweaver and my host's CPanel do everything I want as far as development goes, so in this case the only benefit I'd immediately get is that my clients could edit parts of their sites themselves...

So since it involves software, I'd much rather train my client to open a page in Dreamweaver - and give her access to that one page.

If I ever do go the CMS route, I'll take a look at Xoops.