Best CMS for a client?

[ben_boomer]

I am creating a straight-forward static website for a client who wants control of the content after I am finished.

What would be the best CMS to use? Am really looking for something that is easy to customize, won’t look like a blog, etc.

Thanks in advance.
-Ben

[_ericmiller]

I usually use wordpress, I know that it’s a blogging platform but it does have the ability to add pages and those pages are overall pretty easily customized. You could just not display blog posts anywhere and just use the pages that wordpress offers.

Just my thoughts though I’m sure someone will have another suggestion.

[TheDoc]

Depending on the size of the site, WordPress might be overkill though it’s usually my first choice.

[ben_boomer]

Great– so how should I approach this? I have my mockup all finished up for each page within Photoshop. Should I just go ahead an code it like a normal page (html and css, add images and everything)? Or should I just code within the WP files?

Also, any solid WP theme creation tutorials out there? I have seen a few, but they are all for blog-type WP sites.

Cheers

[TheDoc]

I used to prefer going in this order:

* Complete Design
* Code all templates in basic HTML / CSS / JS
* Convert templates into WordPress

These days, though, there seem to be some pretty amazing WordPress templates that are design to be a starting point. I checked out *underscores* recently and thought it was pretty great: http://underscores.me/

[ben_boomer]

Brilliant– so it is sort of like a template reset of sorts? Pretty excited to start this project!

[TheDoc]

Yea, it strips everything down and provides you with a relatively good starting point.

[chrisburton]

I also recently checked out http://underscores.me and plan to create a theme from it.

Other than WordPress, you might want to check out [EE](http://expressionengine.com “”)

[strages]

check out perch ;)

[wolfcry911]

[Textpattern](textpattern.com “”) is another

[chrisburton]

@JoshWhite I think there is a plugin for WordPress that crunches the image automatically for you. YCruncher or something like that.

[marccantwell]

@ben_boomer @strages you should check out our newly launched https://copybar.io . We built it for the exact use-case you enumerated. It can be implemented client-side or server-side, works with WP, and gives your users the power of incontext editing in addition to element by element ACL. I use it for a number of different client sites where WP is too clunky and my clients want a simpler workflow. Please forgive the shameless self-promotion, but I sincerely think Copybar would be useful in this case.

[pkinchla]

I have been meaning to try this out. Its seems like i might be really cool for small sites.

http://statamic.com/

[chrisburton]

@pkinchla I’m very curious how it works without a database.

[pkinchla]

me too. using it as a blogging platform seems like magic to me. What happens if you decide you want to migrate to another platform.

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