Best web content management system for unsophisticated end-users?

[Peter Boy]

> Am 02.05.2015 um 21:01 schrieb Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>:
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> I am trying to help a buddy set up a simple web site for a small
> landscaping business. I'm going to run it on a Fedora 21 VM on Digital
> Ocean (I love them, by the way).
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> I will set up the OS and software, and I'm a relatively savvy
> sysadmin, but he's not an IT guy at all. I'd like to make sure it's
> dead-bang easy for him to upload pictures and the like when his
> company finishes a new project.
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> Does anyone have a favorite CMS that is really easy for users?
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You may have a look at http://www.cmsgarden.org which is a cooperation of various open source content management systems.

Someone mentioned WordPress, it is not really a content management system but a blog system. There is a tendency that each system claims to be suitable (and capable) for everything. It is as true as the claim a formula 1 car is suitable for your weekend family shopping.

Unless you have a good IT support you may avoid php based systems for security reasons. Some systems (e.g. Drupal) are re-programming the whole bunch a comply to a security aware architecture but most use a programming architecture of the last century. 

I suppose the intended site will we quite small (e.g. less than about 100 pages), doesn’t need a history, is just modestly updated and managed by quite a few authors. You may choose djangoCMS (easier) or phone (more functions) (both Python). For a really big site with a lot of daily updates and a bunch of authors you may choose one of the  Enterprise ready systems (OpenCMS or ScientificCMS).


Best
Peter





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Dr. Peter Boy
Universität Bremen
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28359 Bremen
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pb at zes.uni-bremen.de
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Have a look at http://www.scientificcms.org