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Ask HN: Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform

5 points by rinich ↗ HN
Hello, you wonderful people! I'm in the middle of a massive portfolio redesign. I've completed the design; now I'm looking for an engine that's powerful enough to run it.

I'm wondering if you can recommend me a tool. I've got a few things I need:

* It has to be comfortable with multiple page layouts. I use three for different purposes, and so I need something that can display some pages with one layout, and other pages with another.

* It needs to give me flexibility in how my content is displayed. I've got two major content categories, and each one is shown on the index page in a rather unique fashion. I need something that makes styling output easy, and that's flexible enough to accept multiple content categories.

* It's got to have something more flexible than title-body layout. I need extra categories with which to manipulate things.

None of these three things are unique; however, I need a system that lets me do all of them at once. I know Drupal can do it, but Drupal is heavy. Is there something lighter that does all that? Much thanks for your advice.

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billturner
I hear lots of good things about Expression Engine (http://www.expressionengine.com/) but I've never used it. It always seems to come up as the platform that fills the void between Wordpress and Drupal. But even Wordpress could most likely do what you want with the myriad of plugins and themes out there.
curagea
From my somewhat limited experience with Wordpress, it's a bit tough to wrestle into a portfolio framework, but very easy to set up a blog with. Quite a few web designers have Expression Engine and rave about it (you'll have to pay for the full-featured version). Skip Joomla; it's not very well done, and support is lacking. You could, if you have the time and willpower, roll your own CMS for total control.