CMS recommendation for *small* site?

[stef25]

Can anyone recommend an open source, free, php/mysql based cms for a small site? we are talking less than 10 pages in 3-4 categories but easy updating and altering of content is required. the look should be easy to change using xhtml templates and css - 100% customisation of the look and feel is required.

cms matrix has over 600 scripts but i dont know where to start. im familiar with the common blogging scripts and the more complex ones like joomla etc

thanks!

[cmuench]

Here is a great place to try out some CMS's
http://opensourcecms.com/

[masm50]

I like Etomite for small sites such as protfolios and such.
It has easy wysiwyg editing as well which clients find easy to use.
http://www.etomite.org

But as cmuench said, try some out on opensourcecms first and see which one you like best. Etomite is on there if you want to try it

-Tim

[dalt]

Can anyone recommend an open source, free, php/mysql based cms for a small site? we are talking less than 10 pages in 3-4 categories but easy updating and altering of content is required. the look should be easy to change using xhtml templates and css - 100% customisation of the look and feel is required.

cms matrix has over 600 scripts but i dont know where to start. im familiar with the common blogging scripts and the more complex ones like joomla etc

thanks!

I use Joomla for small or large. The fact that there is a good development team behind it, the add-ons (mods) to choose from, you can't go wrong.

Constantly I hear that joomla is too heavy weight for a small website. I disagree -

These are three sites I am just completing - I am not sure about the gallery script yet, but hey, I have 20 to choose from if I'm not happy:

www.regencyhomes.com.au
www.kumisto.com
www.naturawood.com.au

They are easy to train staff to use as well and I have 20 commercial websites that I have created for clients during the last year.

Dalt

[dionsiseire]

www.drupal.org

drupal once installed is pretty simple, creating content is made quite simplistic,

create a page for static page, and a story for article type / new type content, i.e. title, teaser, content

im moving from joomla to it because once i get the vbulletin link up and running , i'll have a simple main page when new and simple content pages can be created quickly, i just find joomla overkill for what i need though more than capable

the site i'm going to use that on will be around 2000 members, not massive, but has its moments

[domainsatretail]

i've been told to look at http://cmsmadesimple.org for a site I was creating. I havent installed it yet, but its another option you can look at

[alexvgtb]

Website Baker is the one!

http://start.websitebaker.org/en/introduction.html

[Tyssen]

Lucid is about the simplest and most basic I've come across.