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I started working on a website using Wordpress as a CMS and so far im not to happy with how im suppose to build this website. I'm thinking of just moving the code to either Modx or CMSMS and was curious what you all thought would be the best choice for my needs

The site is for a friend who doesnt know much about computer so it would have to be user friendly

These are the following features I would need:

General
Easy for a person who doesnt use computers much to operate
Easy Image uploading/cropping/resizing
Edit links ON the actual website when logged in (if possible)
Ability to remove certain things from my friends username once they log in like the page templates so they cant see/change them.

Home
Rotating image - Is there a way to have an image easily uploaded and resized/cropped to fit in this area? dimensions would be 780px x 230px
About me - Brief editable description of the business
Projects - I have a projects page, so I would like for the projects to automatically update with the top 3 most recent projects.. would just be the Title and a brief summary.
Testimonial - A random testimonial pulled from the "clients" page with the persons first/last name at the end..

Projects
This is the page I'm having the most problems creating with wordpress, what I'm trying to do is when a new project is added like site.com/projects/project01 I would like an image  with a title and description to be placed on the Projects page site.com/projects/. Im trying to do something like www.camtessadesign.com/portfolio

Would it be possible to do this from the cms without having to deal with xhtml/css?

Clients
Simple page with "Clients name" and a testimonial below it.

About
Simple Description witt an Image on the right that the client can change by uploading/resizing and cropping.

Contact page
Contact form


I know its alot/very specific but just wanted to make sure i got everything before i decided to remove all the wordpress code and just go into another cms.. so would CMSMS or Modx be better for what im looking for? or another solution?

Not sure about Modx, but you can get pretty far on this with cmsms.

Easy for a person who doesnt use computers much to operate. Yep!
Easy Image uploading/cropping/resizing. Not sure offhand. Maybe. Check the modules.
Edit links ON the actual website when logged in (if possible). Yep!
Ability to remove certain things from my friends username once they log in like the page templates so they cant see/change them. Yep. You could control permissions enough with cmsms, or edit the admin area.

Rotating image. Not sure. But you could definitely set up random functionality and teach the client to put additional images in a directory.
About me page. Yep!
Projects. Sounds like the News module will do most if not all of this.
Testimonial. You could pull out text instead of images along the same lines as the rotating random image. Probably a random plugin or module available.

I don't see a problem with adding an image to the projects page. Sounds like a news module candidate.

Simple page with "Clients name". no problem
About "cropping." I'd just handle the resizing/cropping before uploading, but you could probably do this with wysiwyg or another module. Not sure. I don't have experience with this, but someone else here will have. Probably an easy way to do this in cmsms.

Contact Page: no problem

Module list: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/list

Hope that helps.

On the clients side the most different thing are the missing TV (Template Variables) in CMSMS. On the other hand the Interface in CMSMS is easier to understand.

Static pages depends a lot of your CSS skills and how you can configure TinyMCE. (MODx and CMSMS). Setup CSS-Classes and provide this classes in TinyMCE.

To do a project page without any html or css knowledge you have to modify one of the moduls to provide a certain xhtml structure and assign a template.

For image support look at: http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ge_Manager
and the TinyMCE image support got improved in CMSMS 1.6.

Take a look at http://www.redaxo.de/ a very easy and intuitive for clients, but I won´t use this because there is no blog modul.