Wordpress/Joomla or iWeb for simple website?

[jdc]

Sorry for the confusion.

That site was created in iWeb, outside of templates. It just started with a blank page.

The issue with iWeb is that it stores everything in one library, so sending an iWeb site for someone else to work (in iWeb) isnt easy.

I use Multisite to separate my sites instead of having one giant iWeb doc.

Multisite will also allow you to send the entire site to another person so they can load it into their iWeb (they need multisite as well)

lots of great stuff here: http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_FAQ.html

[john-o]

Thanks. Yes, I know of a couple tricks to separate individual sites out of iWeb's 'Domain' file, and then share from there...

Do you use iWeb a lot?

[emaderam]

Since iWeb doesn't release any new version I don't recommend it. If you are a Mac user I recommend Rapidweaver which is user friendly with great features. I can understand why someone would choose WP for a small site and it's probably a little easier to administrate than Joomla. But I've always preferred Joomla to WP or other CMS, mostly because I've used it more. Joomla is very good, there's a lot of great free and commercial extensions available, pretty steap learning curve for an administrator though. Drupal is also a great platform to create complex sites, but I'm not a fan of it just because I don't wanna learn another system. Joomla meets all my current requirements. I don't think there's a "best one" of them.... it depends on your goal and technical expertise. There are some useful resources which can help you have a right choice when choosing your needed CMS. I recommend two pages providing a comparison chart of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal: http://www.threehosts.com/ratings/comparison-software/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html and http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cms-comparison-drupal-joomla-and-wordpress. Both present the information in an easy-to-understand format. The best recommendation I can give you is to do some good research on other available products so that when you made your final decision you can stick to it and don't have to change the whole system after some time because this then can get time consuming and causes additional costs. A full list of these programs is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems. But the most popular ones are presented on http://www.simplescripts.com/script_list. Platforms on SimpleScripts are categorized and this helps you make your decision more easily.

[eustacetilley]

I take this pause in the unending late-night delivering of spam to lodge a complaint:
I'm fucking sick and tired of moronic names. Joomla, Hadoop, Drupal, Roomba... there are many others.
I don't care that the creators of this crap have really cutesy-poo and severely disabled relatives.
This is not cute, it is nauseating. I don't care how your brat mumbles the name of their favorite stuffed elephant.
Just cut it out.

Take a clue from Kodak. There was an impudent upstart that not only kidded the name, they kidded the color- Kozak.
Kozak made, and now makes again, an actually quite good car cleaning cloth. It was all in fun, and the decades long squabble was all in fun.
If you want to give your relentlessly boring product some pizzazz, stay away from the mouths of babes.

My favorite now-gone software with a really strange name was Yggdrasil. You can do a lot with "Y"s. Take Yrast. Please, somebody take it. When you are creating something so bewildering and twisted, that it makes one dizzy, well, Yrast is perfect.
But no doubt somebody with such a half-baked product will just listen to the nearest carpet drooler and name it "Droolup".

Eustace

[john-o]

Thanks emaderam!

And wtf eustace?

[john-o]

Since you've reawakened this thread, anyone tried concrete5?