Hehe, nej de er ikke på dansk 
Send me a PM with a note how it goes.
Think it’s time to give it a try.
Like the idea where you can use a different CSS for each category.
I find wordpress pretty nice over textpattern.
How about CommonSense CMS:
http://www.sensesites.com/
It’s free, but quite powerful.
A few weeks ago I had a discussion with a hosting company on this issue and plone installation and configuration was what we agreed upon.
However, the trend here is in favor of:
-typo3
-drupal 4.7
-theonion
-ezpublish
and joomla
This is the second time that joomla is taking the lead because, a graphic designer recommended it to me a few weeks ago.
How will joomla behave under high traffic/stress?
I am using Nucleus CMS for abstractvision.info. It is somewhat lightweight and easily modified to suit my needs.
I run news sites using Joomla, Drupal, and OpenCms.
Both Joomla and Drupal are running Apache/mySQL4.1/PHP4.1 and OpenCms is using Oracle10g (however, it runs on mySQL [and possibly even pgSQL as well[).
Joomla has really sprung up recently, away from Mambo. I use it for one of my A few months ago, there were quite a few load issues, since not many people had thousands and thousands of articles like I did… queries were taking ages or hitting memory limits. But now, I’ve been playing with load testing on lesser hardware (I load balance two dual-xeon 3.2ghz webservers and another one for mySQL, all running FreeBSD), and it can handle our traffic amazingly well. The admin interface is excellent. I work with some editors that aren’t much with computers, and they’re able to accomplish just about everything with it.
Drupal has also been pretty nice to me. I like to use that for people who want a little more flexibility/control and a more light-weight feeling than Joomla. It’s pretty simple to get a decent site up and running, especially with the taxonomy_menu module. I haven’t load-tested this very much, since the sites I run with it don’t demand much traffic yet. I have some issues with the way Drupal works which will affect performance, such as the way every module is loaded, even if unecessary.
My work with OpenCms is yet to be deployed. Compared to OpenCms, Drupal and Joomla are portals. OpenCms is very flexible, has an excellent API and has decent examples. It is certainly the most robust and professional of the three. At the core of it is a VFS. They basically provide you with a filesystem in the database where everything goes. Your templates, static pages, dynamic pages, images, and everything go in the database. This makes it much easier if you want to load balance. Just install OpenCms on a new server, copy over your custom classes and config, and start it up. As for load testing, we haven’t tried yet. It’s not the height of our concern since we have tens of millions of dollars invested in Oracle and the hardware, and have quite a bit of leg room left. It’s the most challenging to set up and get a site running properly in, but it seems pretty powerful. There are some drawbacks, however… they are lacking in some parts of flexibility (but where it lacks, you can just extend the class and redo it yourself). The online support is sub-par compared to Joomla’s excellent forums. There’s an unofficial forum where questions go to be unanswered. There’s a more popular mailing list, where most questions are answered, but doesn’t lend well to discussion.
In my opinion, Drupal manages to be in the middle of the road between ease of use and flexibility. I wouldn’t give Drupal to people who can’t use a computer (whereas I would with Joomla), and I can easily set up a pretty custom site by quickly making modules and a template (in OpenCms, it can be a pretty slow process). But in the end, it really depends on the people who are going to be adding the news and your existing architectures. They’re all excellent choices, but it really depends on your own needs.
Thanks for the long post, great informations.
I’m not looking for a portal, so is joomla and drupan out of the question then?
Wide,
That’s the reason I went with Big Medium, because I didn’t want/need a portal and the many extra features they usually come with.
For a news site where you’re publishing articles and displaying ads etc… Big Medium does a great job. Google “powered by big medium” if you want to see some different sites done with it and in particular http://www.coolrunning.com/ which I think serves up 4 million page views a month. [url=“http://www.cumminghome.com”]www.cumminghome.com is a good example of a smaller, community site using it.
I dont like the interface of Big Medium, dosent seems professional.
Thanks for the suggestion though, but think I will choose something else.
The interface of Joomla is extremly nice and user friendly, but it contain alot of features which I will never use.
Think it stands between wordpress and EvoArticles.
I love Cute News Fork!
I might just be pissy this week but I’m down on cms. You set it all up for a client and then they call you to make additions anyway. If they don’t call you, the sites just lay dormant.
Going back to the beginning of this post, I’ve setup contribute for a few of my clients. php nuke, custom cms systems, even just taught them dreamweaver on-site. People say they want to update content themselves. And, for a week, they do it every day. Then a few times a week. Then once every two weeks. Soon, you have a site that is just as dormant as before.
So, I just started charging monthly fees for maintenance. More in my pocket and the clients are motivated to send me content to get their prepaid hours in.
Could it be too soon for cms?
Set up a CMS and then charge them buy hour to add content 
This is what I be doing
ugh, after a few days messing w/drupal ive decided to make my own cms from scratch. ill let u know how that works out
nice thread, a lot of nice info. I’ve been playing around with Typo3, Drupal, EzPublish and Joomla for the past couple of weeks. We decided to go for joomla since it has all the support we need, we can pay people to create and customize specific modules for us. Joomla has a huge community and is known to be a very stable and allaround great CMS.
I no longer like “made from scratch” scripts, because who will maintain them? Who will find bugs everyday and correct them? You will need an always available coder to do that, and even if you sub-contract them, you will need to give them access to the system.
I have 2 or 3 scripts that I no longer use because of that. I don’t even know if they are safe, or have any serious bugs.
I really prefer to use an open source system. I know that they are tested everyday, by millions of users, all bugs are corrected, and the system is improved for free.
I like Joomla, it has worked well for my sites
I haven’t got the time currently to mess around learning new CMS’s so I’m just using Wordpress and quickly modifiying it to do what I need (quick hacks). When I get a chance I’ll seriously look into Joomla.
I checked out Drupal quickly but it’s too much of an effort to learn if you’re short on time.
I just heard of a cms script that I didn’t know about before. It’s called phpwebsite at phpwebsite.appstate.edu. Anyone use it yet? The guy that told me about it (can’t say he’s a client or a friend or anything) says he’s tried everything under the sun and found this one very straight forward and bug free. Am thinking of giving it a shot for a client.