Having tested a lot of CMS’s, my choice was to use SPIP (a logical choice for a french webmaster) and it seems it was a good idea.

Sure, you have to learn to use it, sure, structure of the website is sometimes dicted by the structure of the CMS, but you don’t spend anymore you whole night to code (or to copy/paste someone elses’s code ). You can focus on content and design.

In this sense, a blog is a CMS.

But take a more advanced scenario, consider a news production house that prints newspapers as well as an online website for news. A CMS for them might be a tool where they can author articles, submit it through several layers of authorisation and edits before finally being set live on the website. In this case, the CMS would simply facilitate the workflow of the content, and may not even have a WYSIWYG editor!

So choosing between a blog or a CMS? Pick THE RIGHT CMS for your business if you need one. Pick a blog if you want to blog.

To certain extent yes. But I only installed Drupal and Wordpress and I think Plone.

I forget all the details as to why I narrowed it down to Drupal or Wordpress. But I think a lot of it had to do with opinion I read regarding Drupal vs. the others. Plone for instance … I saw it to be as slow as an old dog, unless you had a dedicated server.

Beyond that …

Drupal seemed to have the most flexibility and maturity. That said, one reason I decided on Wordpress over Drupal is that Drupal, at this time, is about to move from 5 to version 6 – a big change in the code base comes with this new version and I didn’t want to get caught in some upgrade nightmare.

Once Drupal hits the 6.0 (January 07 .. so I am told) I will look at Drupal again.

… Unless something else better comes along.

“I’m not about to learn another language right now.”

Makes sense to me.

Stefan

No particular reason -I haven’t had a chance to use Joomla. If you can offer a few comments about Joomla … that would be great.

Thanks,

Stefan

I’m curious as to the reasons you listed Mambo rather than Joomla (being a Joomla user myself for several local groups) as well/instead of.

Adam

Drupal Core has also forum, polls … and there are plenty of community contributed modules (for extending existing features) and community contributed drupal themes.

With drupal, you can run simple single-user blog, multi-user blogs, portal, forum, … Almost whatewer you like – if you know how to do it

- Wordpress MU (multi user)
- Drupal

I have a test install of WP MU at http://www.killerblogs.com just to test it out. Drupal can be configured easily to support multiuser blogging but there is some question in terms of how feature rich the built-in Drupal blog module is …?

I’ve played with Drupal blogs and it seemed OK to me, but a lot more testing would need to be done before I could give a proper opinion.

I’ve read somewhere that Drupal runs much quicker than Wordpress MU … but this is merely from a forum post … so who knows.

Stefan

Still not sure…It’s not for me personal, because then I would say WordPress without thinking twice. But the case at hand demands some more (at least that is what I think).

There allready is a rather large excisting website…:worried: And this rather large website needs to deliver some weblogs (something the client would like to offer to their visitors). So…People can ask for a weblog which then is given to them in the same style as the ‘main-website’ and so…

Also they would like to have the website under their full control. So far I am responsible for updating the bloody thing. So it’s getting bigger every week…

It’s rather difficult to get started because I still don’t know what’s best. I will digg into everything about this on KillerSites and should have thought of this sooner…