My Thoughts on Content Management Systems (CMS) for Web Designers?

http://www.mlwebco.com - In this video I share my opinion on what CMS solutions web designers should use. Perch (http://www.grabaperch.com) and Radium3.com (http://www.radium3.com).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cms
• web design
• content management system
• web development

[Faldinio]

The good thing about Joomla/Drupal/Wordpress is that with such a huge user base, there's always someone who has already made that module you need, or come across the same problem you're having.

[Faldinio]

Droomla! One CMS to rule them all!

[benjas17]

Thanks for the advice, but, do this other 2 CMS work fine with comics?

Wordpress already offers Comicpress and works fine, but if Radium3 or Perch can handle comics I would be glad to switch to them.

[bradleyflood1]

Thanks for the advice

[FiniteHelp]

Wordpress is extremely flexible once you really know your way around it. You can clean up the admin interface and simplify it for a client. I don't know why you would EVER pay for a CMS. Again I have to say no disrespect I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, but I completely disagree as to wordpress being too clunky. Out of the box maybe, but it's easily optimized for non web savvy people to do simple updates. Any1 who is that concerned about simplicity should just build their own.

[HuotMediaDesigns]

My rule of thumb for CMS: "It has to work for the customer". If they can't figure it out, they won't use it. You end up looking bad because they think you didn't do your work properly. Joomla and Drupal are far too complex for the average business owner, and I don't feel wordpress has the flexability to meet my clients needs. Wordpress has come a long way, but still. I will check out perch, but I think something needs to be built from scratch with a focus on usability. Just my thoughts.

[mcnriq]

I think with Joomla/Drupal youre really unlimited as webdesigner. There are I think 2 type of designers using Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal

1. The template tweakers (using existing templates en tweak them to their own

2. The Template designers

[dimor22]

Hi Mike, thank you for this video and your many others, I apreciate your words of wisdom. Now that you discarded Wordpress as CMS, what would you recommend doing if we set up one of these light CMS that you talked about but the client wants a blog as well, can we set up a blog for them with Perch or radium3 or we would still have to use Wordpress. I hope I explained myself.

Again, I love your videos, I really like your work as web designer. Keep it up.

[speedhero]

Its like you know what im looking for, all your recent updates fits my needs perfectly. Thanks

[Newfoundlanddesigns]

I find that Joomla takes far too long to get used to. I still haven't figured out how to use the bloody thing!

[London2ATL]

You have a good point about updating client's website for them but the problem arises when you have so many clients you have to deal with needing updating, a lot of people don't need CMS but there are ones that do, never heard of Perch till now...I was thinking of taking the Expression Engine route but that's $300, of course this is at the high end of CMS...it can be charged to the project's cost too...I'll see, working on my own site now, and I need a CMS  to see how things work