CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. Use it to make a home page for your family -- or your multinational corporation!
To get a site up with CMS Made Simple is just that, simple. For those with more advanced ambitions there are plenty of addons to download. And there is an excellent community always at your service.
It's very easy to add content and addons wherever you want them to appear on the site. Design your website in whatever way or style you want and just load it into CMSMS to get it in the air. Easy as that!
I´ve tried many content management systems, but only a few systems really convinced me (e.g. joomla didn´t). I needed for my customers a system, which is easy to setup, extendable, has a well documented api, an active support forum and a great amount of (well coded) extensions. Besides, the system should be easy to maintain and not too complex, like joomla. 'CMS made simple' really does all this for me. It currently lacks in speed, which will be improved in version 2.0.
I recently tried CMSMS and thse are my thoughts:
Positives - Many useful modules. Each module is well documented. Good support forum.
Negatives - Slow. There are no external template and stylesheet files, they are stored in database. Which means every time you want to edit one of these files you have to login to admin area, find the appropriate file and edit it, which is actually more time consuming than it's worth.
I have a really cheap host for my website, and CMS Made Simple was the only one which would work with my host! I have come to like the simplicity of it.
And the winner is... CMS Made Simple!
But I should clarify what the contest was: I'm looking for something good enough for a small site, say personal, small company or organization. (Not for a major company or publisher or anything like that.)
So I tried a number of the high-ranking/well-known systems on this site. Some are probably good in many ways, but annoyed me by being too complex, having really bad admin interfaces (just throwing in icons on a 'control panel' is not enough if the navigation is a nightmare). Some were outright buggy, having page update problems, layout problems in some browsers, or just generating strange errors.
Only CMS Made Simple turned out to have an easy-to-understand interface and worked without any glitches at all.
It then took me about 10 minutes to have it up and running on a web-hotel.
(I should perhaps point out that I'm no computer novice. Although web design or CMS systems is not my area of expertise, I have some 25+ years as system programmer. In my profession I have used Roxen CMS as well, but that's playing in a different league, and comes with a different prize tag.
Great! Clean production of code, EASY implementation from your own css/html design, SEO friendly, simple content structures and no work around (the cms system) headaches. I have been working with many CMS's (like Joomla which I find totally overrated and misused), both front and back end and found this the easiest friendliest system. Also, and especially, for end users. Definitely worth trying it! I have been searching for this a long time.
Features
- SEO Friendly URLs
- Integrated and online help
- Modular and extensible
- Easy user and group management
- Group-based permission system
- Full template support, for unlimited looks without changing a line of content
- Easy wizard based install and upgrade procedures
- Minimal server requirements
- Admin panel with multiple language support
- Content hierarchy with unlimited depth and size
- Integrated file manager w/ upload capabilities
- Integrated audit log
- Friendly support in forums and irc
- Small footprint