Go with bitrix, that was mentioned earlier, and you wont be disapointed. You can spend the rest of your money ($1500) on any tweaks or design work, shoot me a pm if you are interested in somebody who can take care of everything 
I read most of the threads and did not see anyone mention PHPCow
http://phpcow.com/ - price tag 445$ US
I use this software and itâs pretty complex and hard to get used to, but once you have your site setup the way you want it, itâs great.
Check it out for sure.
xoops.org has done me well in the past.
To be honest though, that is one of about three which I have used. So I would thoroughly check it out before going on my recommendation.
http://www.dsgaming.co.uk - I have a version of xoops in action on that site.
To you people running news sites:
Iâm concidering using WordPress and create a theme which fit a news site, but not sure if the features in wordpress is enough.
What do you use for your news site?
What is your url?
EvoArticles
I like this system alot.
But it seems WordPress offer the same, except that you can develop plugins for wordpress if you need anything.
phpcow
Have been looking at phpcow but dont like the feel of it.
Also been chatting with the support which seems too ⌠letâs just say they donât want to waste time on support (chat).
typo3
seems to be huge and complex, maby too big for my needs.
bitrix
Canât find the âPublisherâ section of the CMS.
Seems to be more like a âa little of everythingâ.
Drupal & Joomla
Realy hard to explain this but I never felt âintoâ these two CMS, doesnt realy know why.
Will try to install joomla and/or drupal though.
yeah, EE is a sexy beast!
Hate to put a plug here but I;m devolping my own CMS because I wasnât satisfied with any others. the link is here
http://cmuench.ath.cx/?cat=6
Joomla, hands down. Then spend your $2,000 on Customization.
Depending on what you need, get an open source CMS and start advertising heavily with your money. Spend a bit on some SEO as well to get a better PR. That should get you started.
I agree with ORiN. This reduces lot of developement time and money. Which you can spend on customization and SEO.
Depends what you need. If itâs not a massive enterprise level job, have a look at textpattern(.com)
Superb cms/blog software.
I have been searching for and playing with Free CMFâs for weeks-
Here are four free CMSâs- they assume your host uses PHP and MySQL database.
DC Portal- real cool, tons of features, steep learning curve, documentation learned by forum, by far the easiest to install- one click.
Simple Machines- cool, lots of features, documentation is learned by fourm.
Lunabyte- based on SM (have to load SM first) so new there is no documentation (Enigma3), but it may be worth exploring- most of you probably know code way better than me. I finaly go to this last one, I knew so much from long nights exploring the above 3, learning by trial and error (mostly error) that I had forgot what documentation was.
MODx- by far the easiest to use because it comes with all documentation, you go to forums to learn tricks, get free templates, ect.
Well, wide, what features are you after? You know the specific requirements of your ânewsâ project better than we doâŚ
My requirements are few:
- Writer login (to write theire articles).
- Good SEO from standard.
- Easy to develop plugins/customizations to fit my needs.
- Heavy RSS integration.
- Comment system.
Have been looking at alot of CMS system, but keep comparing them to wordpress to find something that looks just like it - but why not choose wordpress then? hmmm
Think iâm going with wordpress and spend some cash on a good theme along with custom coded plugins.
How much traffic is wordpress able to handle (serious)?
My current sites receive ~1 million pagevies per day and I expect this news site to reach that level too (in time). So I dont want to choose the wrong system from start.
I have been going through the process of trying to determine the Best CMS for our News site for quite a while and have just decided on Drupal. Our site is a weekly news and entertainment newspaper, so all the content flows from that process.
I started our site a few years back with some basic Coldfusion scripts and have been ârolling my ownâ extensions to it since then. We now have over 15,000 articles on the site and itâs starting to âcreakâ a bit. Developing in Coldfusion is pretty quick and easy, but without a solid architecture and with growing feature requests, it is just getting too hard to maintain and add features.
All the while, I have been keeping in mind looking for a CMS replacement and have gone through some basic research of a bunch of OpenSource CMSs over the years. I was going to opt for ezPublish quite a while back, but it just didnât seem to fit into our workflow and âseemedâ harder to modify. More recently I was all set to go with Joomla, but bailed on it when I read that it wasnât strong on categories (and we need the site broken down into News, Sports, Movies, Music, Dining, etc). Maybe Joomla could work, but that scared me off. After reading that the faux news site The Onion had used Drupal, I looked into that and, so far, like what I see (although I think they did some serious tweaking).
I think the problem is, there are so many CMSs out there, itâs difficult to really find out whatâs going to work for a given situation. Unfortunately, trying demos at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ only go so far. Itâs hard to really get to know whatâs going to work without putting in some serious time. Unfortunately,like me, lots of us donât have that time and resources are limited.
I hope Drupal will be easy and flexible enough to work for me. (But, please, if anyone thinks Iâm seriously off base with this, let me know).
Cheers,
Geoff
<edit: please refrain from promoting your own produts>
Seems your facing (or have been) the same problems like me.
Alot of good CMSâs out there but it will take forever to test them all.
So weâre all looking for someone running similar sites to get knowledge about theire CMS and what experiences they have with it.
Iâm going to try the demos at opensourcecms.com
Thats a pretty neat site.
www.textpattern.com is a nice light no-bloat CMS with clean urls. Each category can have its own CSS & template. Articles can have customized URLS (different from the title) and keywords.
Hi Wide / Edman,
If your site is a content rich site i.e. News Site, its better for you to go for âDrupalâ. It can be done within your budget.We have already implemented it in our site.It works perfect.
Thank you.
Flash:)
http://matrix.squiz.net - outstanding opensource php/java based cms - go aussies!
hey wide,
ive been wonndering the same thing and havent found anything conclusive yet, so iâm giving drupal a test run (for a news type site). iâll let you know how it goes
haâ det godt! de hjemmesider du taler omâde er ikke paa dansk, vel?