Technology by Jacob Dybala

I’ve been searching for a good Open Source CMS for quite some time now and I can’t say I found one yet.

PHP-Nuke can’t really be treated as a good CMS for a serious site. I tried this once and after one year I made so many modifications that the code became unmaintainable. Since then the site hasn’t been updated. Oh well

Geeklog seems to pretty much be my first choice at this time because of the clean design (not the UI…) and functionality. Users can create accounts, news and article management is present, it has a downloads section. The most important (in my case) section is the FAQ. I have to say I like Geeklog’s FAQ system for its presentation. Unlike PHP-Nuke this FAQ works well with a lot of questions (over 1,000 on my site).

Drupal has always been one of my top choices but there was something that I didn’t like since I keep searching for other CMS. I’m not sure what that was exactly Drupal is a really powerful system and I would put it in one category with Mambo .

Mambo’s not a bad choice but the default themes are terrible. I can’t say a bad word about the system itself – it the most powerful Open Source CMS. I get the impression that it is more for a content site rather than a portal. I may be wrong, though.

A big shout out goes out to http://www.opensourcecms.com/ for putting most CMS together in one place. Great place to start!

Any ideas?

Content Management Bible

I honestly never thought I would set up a blog but because of no free time I will have to use WordPress . I used to hate the concept of blogging. I cannot explain why I "used to" hate blogging. Maybe because of the popularity of blogs; the fact that everybody has one or maybe because I always wanted to work only with the software that I created myself.

I’ll finish this post and start the blog. We’ll see what happens over time…

Update: (10/13/2007) 2.5 years after this first post I have to say that WordPress turned out a superb CMS / blogging system that ended up fitting all my needs. I did not expect it to work as well as it did. With every new release new features and functionality is introduced that just makes blog management so much easier. The fact that a WordPress has a large community of users helped provide a large number of quality plugins that solve the problems that bloggers are experiencing. Long live WordPress !