What CMS do you suggest?

[jtwhite]

I have a lot of experience with HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL but none whatsoever in CMS's.

I am starting a web design website and I would like to use a CMS that I can customize easily, that has a wonderful template system (easy to custom theme)... It needs to have speed since I will be hosting it on my free account instead of my paid account since it's limited to 0 add on domains and my blog occupies it.

What would you suggest? Also, if you have any resources that would help me get started themeing the one you chose?

Thanks much in advance!

[sourfacedcyclop]

I like using Wordpress. If you know what your doing, Wordpress can become an extremely powerful CMS. Its easy to add pages and such as well, which makes it nice to use if you are making a website for a client.

[jtwhite]

I've used Wordpress as a CMS before but I need something more... flexible? I heard Joomla is pretty good? Do you know anything about it?

[zen-r]

I'm no expert, but I have done quick tests on several & found Joomla very easy to use & yet powerful.

There are lots of sites which give support for it, & this one, for example has 2200 templates ;

http://www.joomla24.com/

[lhyman]

I like joomla only because of the support, have a look at joomla.org

[allen92]

Joomla in my book is King but I recently have been playing around with Drupal. It's nice, but not as nice as Joomla. Joomla gives you so many more options!

[pbmuja]

I suggest Joomla, Its very powerful and it has many plugins and modules to add in. It can give less time in editing complex scripts.

[allofus]

depends what you want to do...

Wordpress is great for the blog style and is easy to mod.

But if you want more on forums joomla and wordpress both suck...

SMF forums has a portal and lots of addons that you can use to turn SMF into a pretty good CMS, easy to install / mod.

Most CMS seem to be a real pain to intergrate forums and blogs into properly so a heavily customised forum may work better for you depending on your aim of the site.
Edit:
phpbb and mybb can be customed pretty easy too.

Large communities.

[danprobo]

Some time ago there was a survey conducted by eBusiness Solutions Webology about "Which CMS is best? Drupal or Joomla?", And the sample data is the webmaster throughout the world.

Assessment survey is divided into 5 categories:
* Development.
* Documentation.
* Performance and Function.
* Appearance.
* Usage.

Below are the results of the survey:

In this area Joomla win:

* Easy to create attractive website.
* A large choice of themes.
* Interface that is easy to digest for beginners.
* Easy to train clients to use it.
* It's easy to find a master Joomla.

In this area Drupal win:

* Complete documentation for the core and module.
* Little bugs or errors to the core and module.
* Supports Social Networking (Social Networking).
* Supports SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
* Support SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
* Internationalization support (many languages).
* External Integration.
* Existence of User Management and Permission features.
* The Add-ons quality.
* Easy to create large complex web site.

See the table results of the survey.

You can choose which becomes your primary goal in creating websites based on that survey results.

IMB recommendation to use Drupal.

I recommended Drupal. Drupal has a power, stability and performance but not a good looking, it's hard to find a nice free themes for Drupal. Good looking is one of Drupal limitations, but this days lots web designer start to try out Drupal because the excellent usability improvements from Drupal.

Get your free Drupal themes.

High profile sites using Drupal like Yahoo, BBC, AOL, MTV, Adobe, Warner Bros, Nike, Sun Microsystems, The United Nations, NASA, NATO, IBM, Greenpeace and more. Drupal is for the Geeks!

Who use Drupal? Here's the Drupal users.
More article about Drupal vs. Joomla.

[jtwhite]

Well I've decided to use Joomla .

http://designwww.co.cc/