What CMS would be appropriate for these sites?
I am about to being work on two different client sites. These clients want to be able to change content themselves -- both will be making changes frequently. I'm new to CMS, so I don't really have an idea about which system would be appropriate for each site.
The first client is a photographer. I will be constructing a site with general pages (ex: About Me), a blog (Wordpress), and photo galleries. The galleries will need to be password protected for her client's privacy. She will be creating new galleries for each client, uploading photos often, and may even want to change site colors from time to time.
The second client wants a small site for her retail shop. It will *not* be e-commerce, however. It will only contain a small collection of static pages which she will be updating at least weekly.
It is necessary that they are open-source, so keep that in mind when you answer, please. :)
For the first site you can use WordPress as the CMS solution as well, since you are going to use it there for the blog. WP is more and more used as CMS nowadays, even for the sites that don't have the blogging features. It started as a blogging platform but it has grown into a fully functional CMS. You would just use "Pages" instead of "Posts".
However, I just briefly searched WP plug-ins to see if there's a ready-to-use photo gallery plug-in with password protected galleries and I don't see one.
I found one for Joomla, it's very powerful but it's not free - http://www.photo-graffix.com/joomla/
In Joomla you could also have a blog. Best blogging extension for Joomla is called Lyftenbloggie and it's free, not as powerful as WP but works for most users.
For the second site I would use Joomla and if the client ever changes her mind it will be easy to turn it into an e-Commerce site with VirtueMart extension.
Good luck!
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