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website content management systems

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

So it's decided: out of ten content management systems that I've looked at, WordPress turned out to be the one that best met our needs. I looked at just about everything (within reason) and was amazed to find that among the contenders there were two whose installaton procedures failed, badly enough that I couldn't debug them in the time I was willing to invest. Three others didn't have anything like the flexibility we needed to create "all of" a twenty-page website, and one had such a tortuous interface that our communications person couldn't come to grips with it. There was also one contender that had such a large installation package that I could see from the start the whole thing would be unworkable.

I managed to port our existing corporate website (written in flat HTML files, like it was 1995) to the new system in about two-three hours. That's including time to render the layout and design, and to include the third-party design and functionality package we're using (Twitter's Bootstrap).