CMSMS - an Editor's viewpoint?

[Anastasis]

I am just in the early first few days of getting to know CMSMS and have been impressed so far by what I have seen. I come from a technical background, but am by no means experienced with PHP. Nevertheless, what I have found so far from my technical understanding has been very good.

I am researching various CMS tools on behalf of my employer but also myself. To this end, I have been testing CMSMS alongside Mambo, Joomla and TypO3. Although it is early days, so far CMSMS is leading for me. I like the simplicity of the design and its ease of use. Right from installing it was clear to me how I could go into admin and change things around.

What I think seems to be overlooked though in the design of many of the CMS tools I have looked at, is that perhaps a CMS is of most use to the non-technical. Techies for example can build and maintain a website using something like Dreamweaver, but for a non-techie having a CMS website is the only option.

A CMS can do all sorts of fabulous things and have all sorts of bells and whistles, but if adding content is clunky and unintuitive for an editor with no or little technical knowledge, then it sort of misses the point for me of having a CMS. For the non-technical, the first question I think would be is, "How easy is it for me to add and update content and maintain my site?" Or am I missing the point?

For me, so far as I have seen, CMSMS scores highly in that department. I haven't so far seen one that is better. I know asking this is likely draw answers that are coloured in favour of CMSMS, but is that the genuine view of others? Are there other CMS tools out there with good UIs for editors that share the capability of CMSMS for the admin/developer too? Or is CMSMS genuinelly king of the CMS jungle?

I would be interested to hear your thoughts?

[datoupee]

CMSMS can generally do anything other CMSs have to to offer.  There may be some more advanced functions that others have but that can always be added into CMSMS in some way.  Additional fucntions outside of the regular build and modules is where it may get a bit technical to do something (slim chance you would need something custom).

If the site is for a corporation, my advice to you is to have someone who is technical build the site for your company using the CMS of your choice and then you can take over when it is completed.  However, CMSMS is very easy to install and if you can handle it yourself then give it a go.

I've used many CMSs and I can honestly say that I prefer CMSMS for all of my personal and freelance clients. It is the most user friendly CMS out there right now.

[heatherfeuer]

I must say I have to agree with datoupee.  I've tried working with Mambo, Xoops and Xaraya and CMSMS was far and away the easiest I found.  With the others, I think just the basic admin area would be daunting for most non-techies.  I am currently designing a website for a client using CMSMS and there wasn't much of a learning curve for the client at all.

My experience has been that CMSMS is one of the most intuitive, streamlined CMSs available today.  It's also incredibly easy to customize because the designers have utilized such easy-to-use smarty tags.

[Elijah Lofgren]

I was going to re-write my custom CMS from scratch to make it easier to use. Then I found CMSMS......