Custom built print and web works.

textpattern = sweet

Thursday September 14, 2006

I've spent a lot of time looking into open source cms systems. I've evaluated, modified, deployed etc. I like plone a lot, but I there is a ton of set up involved and you really need to work with a very skilled python developer to get what you want. I've been very fortunate in my soon to be ex-day job to work with such folks and we built some great systems. Plone is excellent if you're concerned with SEO and it's packed with some pretty great features. That said, I really wanted to try a different system for this site.

So, I looked at all the usual suspects - drupal, mambo, wordpress(which I do use), joomla, ez-publish, movable type and so on. And after months of comparing feature sets I'll probably never use and driving myself crazy over analyzing every possible scenario, I decided on Textpattern.

If you know and use textpattern, then you know why it's great. If you don't, try it. You'll be happy you did. It's clean, easy to use, easy to modify and it "feels" nice. Working in textptattern is a pleasant experience.

There were two CMS products I cam across in my hunt that I'll mention also. Modx and ExpanseCMS. I've built sites with both of these and they're very good. I'll write more about them later.