So it's been a while, but WordPress still retains its crown in my book. With the advent of frameworks like Genesis and plugins like Custom Post UI, Advanced Custom Fields and Options Framework, the sky seems to be the limit.

More too come soon.

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Nice article.But i will suggest indigloo for power mixed with simplicity.Indigloo website builder is a browser based website creator which has power of cms systems like drupal, joomla. You can create your website for free in 3 minutes.Indigloo provides advanced features like standard grid system to divide areas,power to move contents over one another,ability to create multilevel menus,Place holder for meta tags and keywords for each page etc.

http://www.indigloo.com

You should look into Osmek. Its a new kind of cms built for developers but designed for their clients. Instead of having to install a whole application and configure a database, its a Saas web application where you access your content via an API. Its a revolutionizing idea, you should check it out.

We need updates :( pleeease

That's a pretty solid review of Drupal. I've used Drupal 6 to create a ton of sites. The biggest problem though that I have with Drupal 6 is the appalling usability of the administration backend. This should though be sorted for Drupal 7, but the idea of creating a site with Drupal 6 and expecting a client to master the admin section is laughable. It is for this reason that I'm going to spend time investigating Silverstripe as I've being reliably informed that their UX is really pretty sharp.
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Very good point Andy, and I have thought about it. For my purposes, I would NOT be opening up the admin section to clients. I would only give my clients permission to modify "content". And the fact that there are some admin themes that allow you to customize SOME of the back end to the user's need.

Thanks for the comments though.

You forgot about CMs Made Simple.. try it out.

So, I did take a quick look at CMS Made Simple again. These are the reasons why it's a no-go for me:

Not very popular - Limited access and support for modules and themes
Smarty Templating - Just a personal preference that I don't like
Templates In the CMS - That's a huge problem for me. I'm used to editing my templates myself in an external editor with syntax highlighting. I understand that some may like this flexibility, but as a developer it's the opposite way to how I work.

I've found These comments have also been helpful.

I've had a horrible time with CMSMadeSimple. So much so that my site got hacked and I had to delete everything and start over. CMSMadeSimple is a no-go. Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and done!

Well, as a Drupal developer, I think you made the right choice!

Don't forgot I also added Wordpress to my final list :)

Although I am old fan of Joomla, I should give a try with Drupal after your post :)
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