Hi, I'm new to the list. I've been working in web development since 1996, and have been involved with content management systems all along the line, usually bespoke ones done just for that site, but also including a couple of big Vignette installs in the UK. I've just started a new job where I am working for a company that does web development for various clients, and we have an in-house system that's been developed in ASP over a few years. It works OK, but there's a lot of custom work each time. Clients have been asking me about alternatives, and I'm just starting to do some research on what's available. It's a bit overwhelming really - content management is so central to every decent website that there 1,001 systems out there, from the overblown corporate bluster (and presumably still mega-pricing) of Vignette, to the free ones that have been developed by an individual. Can anyone point me in the direction of some kind of overview as to who the big players are and what their pricing is like these days? To what extent do people in here have experience of smaller (hopefully cheaper) systems like NQContent for Cold Fusion? Where does something like Obtree fit in the price/performance spectrum? I should clarify that I'm looking at systems that will drive sites with a few hundred pages - nonetheless every client these days wants to have every page on their sites content manageable, and that seems to me to require breaking every page up into its component fields and creating HTML forms, SQL queries, and table structures that reflect every type of page. Which, naturally, is a lot of work. Clients _also_ want WYSIWYG too, does anyone know which CMSs have nice friendly interfaces but which _also_ interface with page data being structured into fields (e.g. article title, article body, images, links to related stuff)? Any advice gratefully received. Cheers, Mark Tortolano
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