Portfolio CMS advice?

[Rutland yO]

I have just started university and will be wanting to update my website a lot with all my new work ect, the thing is i have always designed and coded my own websites, but with all this new work, deadlines and partys coming up, i want a decent CMS that is suitable for a portfolio, the only pages i really care about is a homepage, portfolio page and a contact page. Iv looked over a few but can't seem to find any i like, is anyone on here using one and if so what one?

Thanks.

[pcbranding]

Hello. My site is based on Wordpress. Just google 'wordpress portfolio themes' and see what you get.
Mine is customised, but there are lots of great looking off-the-shelf ones.

[Corrosive]

I find ModX CMS is very good. User friendly and quick to update with a really flexible method for plumbing in your own design. That said Wordpress is good too and so is Drupal (there we go, that's my full set of CMS experience). Here's a ridiculously long list...

AdaptCMS Lite
Avactis
ATutor PHP
b2evolution
BEdita PHP
BLOG:CMS
CivicSpace
CMS Made Simple
Concrete5
Dotclear
Drupal
DynPG
e107
Exponent CMS
eZ Publish
Frog CMS
Gamboo Web Suite
ImpressCMS
Joomla!
Habari PHP
KnowledgeTree Document Management System
Mambo PHP
Merlintalk
MiaCMS PHP
Midgard CMS
MODx PHP
MySource Matrix (Squiz)
Nucleus CMS
Ocportal
Opus PHP
PHP-Fusion
PHP-Nuke
PHPSlash
phpWebSite
Pixie (CMS)
RavenNuke CMS
Serendipity
SilverStripe
SPIP
TangoCMS
Textpattern
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Tribiq CMS
TYPO3 PHP
whCMS PHP
WordPress
Website Baker
Xaraya PHP
XOOPS PHP
Zikula

Let us know what you decide on. All should leave you time to party though :)

[DougBarned]

Agreed, WordPress sounds like your best bet. It is:

Very user friendly. Fast. Easy to template and switch between templates. If it cant do something you want, it's likely there's a free (most are free) plugin that will get it done for you.

Let us know which you choose and how you get on :)

/Doug

[Rutland yO]

I diddnt like any of the CMS's i have tried, so iv gone for the hard work approach of designing my own ... just keeping the design simple. John Rutland Graphic Design - Home

[tezdread]

Hello. My site is based on Wordpress. Just google 'wordpress portfolio themes' and see what you get.
Mine is customised, but there are lots of great looking off-the-shelf ones.

I would never have thought Graphic design | Logo design | Retail brand identity | Packaging graphics | Ramsgate, Kent | Paul Cartwright Branding was built on WordPress...cool

I've only just installed WordPress (been using tumblr.com for a while), applied a theme and I've got a lot to get my head around with it so any good places for sound info would be nice?

[pcbranding]

Hello,
Yes - thank you. I designed the basics of it in Dreamweaver and then had it done re-done by www.Pointandstare.com into a Wordpress theme.
I'm still tinkering with how the content works/looks, but I like it!

:)

[tezdread]

I like it, especially as it is far from obvious that it's built from WP but has all the functionality and ease you need I bet. Just what the doc ordered...

[sweetums]

Wordpress is my CMS of choice as well. I've been designing and coding with it for a few years and it's never let me down.
If your interested in learning how to code for it then I would recommend a 3 part video series called "Designing for WordPress". You can find it here. The guy doing the tutorials is a real guru on all things Wordpress related :)

[tezdread]

After spending a couple of days with WordPress I think I've got a much better understanding of it. It's not so much the app I'm confused with but more the way ppl integrate it into their sites.



Looking at your site PCB it looks like the home page is not part of WordPress, that the actual blog page is hidden and that the navigation is actually the categories\tags applied to each post. So, if this is right, this page Flaiver | Women’s fashion brand logo | Paul Cartwright Branding is a blog post and you link to this from the categories on the left?

Is this about right?

How many pages on your site are not part of WordPress?

If you add a new blog post from the dashboard, I assume that a link to the post\permalink will be added to the navigation automatically and not effect any of the other pages, is this right?