My website currently uses a PHP-based CMS called Fuzzylime - I chose it because it was very easy to configure and did not require a back end DB (which my hosting package did not provide) - and unlike some of the other non-DB CMS offerings, it scales up very well without performance problems.
Anyway, it’s out of support now (the one-man-band author has abandoned it) and I’ll soon have databases in my hosting package, so I intent to make a (quite leisurely) move to a different CMS - probably one with a MySQL back end and definitely one that’s a living project.
At the moment, Drupal looks like a sound choice. Anybody want to persuade me otherwise (or have a better recommendation?)
I’ve got a great deal of existing content that I’ll want to port over to the new framework - my plan was to set up a WAMP box at home and populate the historical content on there, then hopefully, there’ll be a quick and easy way to pack that up and restore it onto the (new) live CMS.
I use Wordpress for my site, but it’s pretty much just the blog and a few pages. I have heard very good things about Drupal - some of the teams at work have used it for mid-sized sites. All of my direct CMS experience (aside from Wordpress) is with enterprise-scale packages, most of which suck.
It looks like a site that would be ideal for a WordPress setup. I’m no professional web developer, but i’ve messed about with Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress installations on my own computer, and i think WordPress is the most user-friendly, especially for people who don’t have huge amounts of experience getting in behind the scenes and messing about with the PHP.
All of these CMS’s are very customizable, but i think that WordPress themes and plugins are among the easiest to incorporate into a site. Joomla and Drupal have a steeper learning curve, at least in my limited experience. I think that getting Atomic Shrimp up and working on WordPress, especially if you don’t want to change the look or layout very much, should be pretty damn easy.