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I have done a lot of work with various content management systems of the last few years and have decided that there really is only one that does everything I want it to do, and that is Joomla.  Joomla is the most versatile and complete system that is on the market today.  I have tried Drupal, PHP-Nuke, Post Nuke, Xoops, and Mambo, and they all fall just a little bit short of Joomla.  In fact there is really only one thing I don’t like about Joomla and that is the SEF URLS that can be at times hard to implement correctly.  There is only one good component that I have found for SEF URLS and it can be very finicky at times.  In fact it is giving me fits with a new site right now, but I know with a little patience I will get it working fine.

I guess the big question would be why would a new site or a simple site choose to use a CMS over Wordpress, and my answer would be that the CMS can do everything Wordpress can do with some options that may just come in handy down the road when you want to expand your site.  You may not think you want to go beyond a blog when you first start, and if you choose not to then you still have a functional blog platform and don’t need to expand.  But let’s say you do want to expand into selling products or having a forum on your site, if you had started with Joomla then it would only be a matter of turning on that functionality and putting it to use.

CMS do have a higher learning curve at first but once you understand how they work, they will open your mind to the infinite possibilities that you and your website have to offer to the world.  Yes I actually believe that you and your website will grow just based on using a CMS from the start.  I believe that you will start to see more avenues to take your website down and will work to accomplish even more things just because you are not limited by the backbone of your sites structure.  I don’t want anyone to think for a moment that I don’t love Wordpress because I do, I just think as a beginner that you should open your mind to the possibility that there may be more you can do on a CMS.