Advice on CMS System

[loki]

After a bit of advice on what you think the best CMS system from your experience. I am thinking of restarting a project I had going which was for Games News and Opinion from the industry.

Previously I have used Joomla as the breadth of addons to make it a fully functional web site were quite amazing. Maybe to the the point there is too much by way of addons. However I had a tinker around with Wordpress the other day and it's something that I thought was a good system although a little bit more rough around the edges than what Joomla is.

What I don't want is for the website to be a complete blog style site as I want it to be a more appealing than that. However it's nowhere near as bloated as what Joomla, Drupal or PHP Nuke is for example. Where I was strugling was the whole menu system. I really like to have menu's at the top to navigate to sections such as News, Previews etc.

From your experience which have you tried and which offers the best performance and funtionallity

[kaiowas]

I'm in the middle* of redeveloping the Mk1 MR2 club's website with Joomla, I've found it pretty good and able to do just about everything I've wanted from it. Only thing I've found a bit lacking is any decent way of supporting user groups. Does help that I can code so if it doesn't do exactly what I want I can easily hack things so that it does though.

I've not used anything else though so I can't give much help by the way of comparison.

*Well hopefully I'm near the end actually, I've been at it for the best part of 2 years on and off and people are starting to get a bit worked up that they haven't got a new website yet!

[PvtPyle]

I write film reviews for a Drupal-powered website. I'm no web developer, but Drupal + MySQL is a pretty bloody powerful combination if you have some half-decent PHP skills.

[Garp]

I've only good experiences of Joomla myself, written a few php modules for it in the past when useful. Drupal seems pretty good too, which we use to power our corporate site, however there aren't so many extensions for it. Depends on what you want to do really, how much additional non-standard functionality you might want.

[loki]

I think I am going to stick with Joomla. It offers most of the funtionallity I need and it appears to be one of the more secure CMS systems. Although I agree with Kaiwos. Considering the size of the installed userbase, the support can be very slow at times

[kaiowas]

Although I agree with Kaiwos. Considering the size of the installed userbase, the support can be very slow at times

Sorry, that wasn't what I meant. I was referring to user groups within a site and being able to give different permissions to different people. The inbuilt functionality is lacking in that respect and I've not found a plugin to do the job that I've really got on with. I did see a while back that version 1.5 was meant to be addressing this but I've stuck with 1.0.x so far so I've not seen whether they've improved it or not.

[loki]

Sorry, that wasn't what I meant. I was referring to user groups within a site and being able to give different permissions to different people. The inbuilt functionality is lacking in that respect and I've not found a plugin to do the job that I've really got on with. I did see a while back that version 1.5 was meant to be addressing this but I've stuck with 1.0.x so far so I've not seen whether they've improved it or not.

Gotcha. It still appears to be a common problem