Good content management systems:
Mambo Open Source (recently renamed) is good for "page management" and for "pure content", things like accurate information in manuals, instructions, walkthroughs etc.
PHP Nuke - huge community and very poor security, but its a great web portal. It allows users (of certain priviliges which you can set) to upload or download things. It comes with huge modifications and modules. PHP BB has been recoded to fit right into it and comes packaged as standard. Theres a massive selection of website themes available too, usually free to download from many different sites. I host my own open source project for this particular CMS that lets you add static pages easily, similarly to Mambo
staticnuke.com is it if youre interested
GPG Nuke / Dragonfly - its the same as PHP nuke, most modules are more compliant and is massively more secure, but it has a smaller userbase. I prefer this one, even though I still use Nuke myself... havent gotten round to changing.
OS Commerce / Zen Cart - this is for ecommerce and is absolutely wonderful. Massive support from a massive community but the themes tend to cost money to get and are, unfortunately, a bit of a pain to make. Aside from that, its wonderful.
If you have a web host, check whether you have an application called
Fantastico with it. It will have all these and more ready to install onto your site with just a few clicks and it will even set up your databases for you.
Want more info? Email me
Also check this out:
http
/www.sharphorizon.com/store - this website took me all of five hours to put together, start to finish using OS Commerce.
making pure HTML websites is nice, but theres so many other alternatives out there that save so much work its unreal. Check this website too, it compares only some of the available CMS systems on the internet:
http/www.cmsmatrix.org -
thats how many options you have
*edit* please dont see this is a shameless plug for a site im about to launch properly! It really did only take me a few hours
