Looking for a free CMS which allows content injection [closed]

Question

I was wondering if anyone could tell me of a free CMS that will allow me to change the basic content (text, image etc etc) of a website, without forcing it's own templates or designs.

This is the scenario; I have already designed my website, already implemented it, and I just need a way for the actual User to edit the contents of the pages.

I've looked into Drupal and Joomla, and the hosted ones such as CushyCMS (I liked the way this worked) and SimpleCMS, however I am a bit wary of hosted CMS systems...

Any ideas??

Answer 1

I would suggest MODx - it's a very well supported, free, open source CMS with a great community. You are in complete control and creating templates is a simple as copying and pasting your existing HTML - just replace the content with the [*content*] template variable, and it'll be replaced by whatever the user enters in the excellent, built in manager.

Here are a couple of great tuorials that will get you started:

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/working-with-a-content-management-framework-modx/ - this is an excellent overview
• http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2009/03/28/building-a-website-with-modx-for-newbies-part-1-introduction/ - this is a series taking you from installing, to a finished site.