dojo Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Years ago, when I started some of my sites, I had to use a CMS that would display articles and all the information. So I chose php-nuke (yep, no wordpress back then ). For forums, the first one was phpBB, if we don't consider a free hosted YaBB platform. What's the first CMS you ever used? When was that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryce12 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Can Geocities or Xoom be considered as CMS? I used them almost 15 years back and they offer a comprehensive solution to publish content online. There were no Blogs or Web 2 sites back then and the interface offered by Geocities was very primitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 Well for a blog/website I used Joomla, man it was a pain in the ass... For forums my first was IPB back umm....1.x I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 First CMS was probably Joomla, Drupal. Forum software, was the old free ipboard. Still a massive fan of SMF, never really liked phpBB. I think I'm developing a soft spot for IP Board though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddharth Ramakrishnan Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Wordpress is the forst CMS i used and i loved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkGizmo Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 First CMS I've ever used was CuteNews back in 2002. It was a pretty light-weight system that was easily incorporated into my website's template and it made it easy to post content quickly and affectively to the website. I'd still use it today if I needed it as it was a good product to use and was simple and easy to use for anyone who was in charge of editing my wbesite back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeTheLobster Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 The first ones I used was probably Lotus Notes, because there weren't really any alternatives back then. CMS hadn't really been invented as a specific app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckTesta Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 My first CMS i've used was Vbulletin 4.0 I've since branched out to wordpress and LOVE it. Wordpress is probably one of THE best, if not THE best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amdac Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I'm mainly forum based. I started with phpBB many many years ago (I'd guess 8-10), then eventually moved to vBulletin. Since then I've recently hopped aboard the xenforo train and just recently tried out wordpress for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllaHalligan Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Can Geocities or Xoom be considered as CMS? I used them almost 15 years back and they offer a comprehensive solution to publish content online. There were no Blogs or Web 2 sites back then and the interface offered by Geocities was very primitive. Yup, mark me as an "oldie", too... Geocities was my first start. Wow, I think back to that and can't believe how far things have come. Did have an SQL driven site that was self-hosted back when I was married to the evil-not-so-genius.... First forum was phpBB... I got into forums a really, really long time after I got into websites/blogging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrnothersan Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The only CMS that I've used before is Joomla. I don't like the interface though, and can't get the hang of using it. I don't use CMS for my websites, I find that plain HTML is better than using a CMS system. I do like WordPress (although that's primarily used for blogging) which I like the interface of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulwatcher Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I started on php nuke and then joomla and then wordpress and I have been using wordpress ever since. I am using wordpress as a landing page on my forum. And wordpress is making up 50% of the traffic to my forum. I would be losing out on a lot of traffic if I was not using wordpress as a landing page. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razelia Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Back in 2004, I believe I started off with CuteNews. CuteNews had a lot of problems with handling spam from commentors, so I had to move to a different CMS. Then I moved to FusionNews, but as of 2008-ish I think, its developer abandoned the project and just let it die. I then moved to a bigger CMS, namely WordPress. No regrets. For forums, believe it or not, I started out with ProBoards. Right now, I'm using XenForo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer333 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Wordpress all the way! It was the first CMS I used, this was maybe five years ago and I am still using it today. For me it is an easy tool for site design, it fact only once have I actually used to make a blog site. Currently I am designing a new site for my business using Wordpress, and I still find it a good choice. I also find it easy to create high ranking sites. Saying that I have recently been wondering if there is a more powerful alternative? I am just designing my site using free hosting so have a number of different CMS autoinstallers offered by the host, anyone got any good recommendations? Even though I love Wordpress, it has been around for a while now so I am sure there must be improved tools out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv5 Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 The First CMS I've ever used was WordPress. Although I've also used Joomla, WIX, Magento, Weebly, Drupal. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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