Hi, I'm new to Content Management Systems, PHP, and SQL and I've been looking for a CMS that will suit my needs. I have 1 year of web hosting service, 250GB disc space and a C-Panel. This is the first time I've worked with a C-Panel and right now I'm completely lost.
I tried using wordpress but the themes and the system seemed a little bit too generic to me. Right now I'm using drupal but I think that the learning curve that i'd need to pass over is a little bit to... curved. ;D I'd love to find an easy to manage content management system.
I'd be using it primarily to showcase my portfolio and secondarily I'd be using it as a blog.
Thanks for your time,
Sarah.
Well if your looking for something -really- simple and as far as a CMS goes,i'd just get fanupdate or cutenews.
Both scripts can be used to function as a main page blog and your able to render them as a website manager by creating categories as you would pages.
But if these are just too simple,and you want a actual bonafied CMS,i HIGHLY recommend Nucleas CMS.This CMS was by far the easiest to use and navigate around and the template system is also quite easy.
So http://nucleuscms.org/ the link to Nucleas CMS's site if you wanna give it a try :]
Have you tried something like Joomla? I started a social network site and started using WP with BuddyPress but "couldn't get there from here", at least with my ability.
During experimenting, I tried Joomla because my web host has it as an option to install (sets everything up for you). Still wasn't exactly what I was needing, but looked like a fairly simple but pretty slick CMS.
I ended up using ELGG as my platform for my site. You can see what I have done with it so far at http://www.viewcaster.net/view/