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Posted by nicholas maddren
nicholas maddren
12,793 Points

Building A CMS Question

I deal with automotive clients, we need a CMS for our clients. We do not need it to be advanced we simply need basic options such as a listing vehicle into a database and statistics for our clients and a blog. We did think of using Wordpress however it would be a little impractical and unprofessional for our clients as great as it is. Are there any frameworks for CMS that don't have any limitations? Most content changes will be done by our team so we don't need any functions to change specific modules on the front end. Any idea if this would be a good way to go and if so what would you recommend I start looking at? Thanks, any help would be appreciated :)

1 Answer

Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points
Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points

  1. If you're wanting to stay away from Wordpress, look at Joomla or Drupal for a CMS. They're used a little more in the corporate world and don't carry the same "unprofessional" stigma as Wordpress.

  2. With as few features as you have mentioned you could just build it from scratch using a framework like CodeIgniter, CakePHP, or Laravel. Laravel is the newer, more popular option.

Good luck!