What is the best content management system for building a virtual community?

We’re creating a portal to enable members of developing communities (around the world) to exchange documents and interact with each other. Any suggestions on which CMS tool to use would be appreciated!

The different possibilities range from expensive to free depending on your feature needs and wants, size of your community, and hosting options. Here’s a few good ones.

Leverage Software

http://www.leveragesoftware.com

starts at $300/month with a comprehensive feature list.

webNetwork, about $200 for the software.

http://www.webscribble.com

Host on your own system or ISP.
For extra $, host on webscribble systems.

ONEsite

http://www.onesite.com/products.html

offers several levels of communities, including a basic free community.

is any one familia with Joomla content management ? i can login to my admin, any idea for pass user is admin?

is any one familia with Joomla content management ? i can login to my admin, any idea for pass user is admin, i think it all the same info. so who ever has use this script can help out, hence i cant find the Joomla admin info to write them.

There is no default administrator password in Joomla!, it is set during installation.

If you don’t know the administrator password but you have access to the database (e.g. using phpMyAdmin or the mysql client), you can try setting the password for the admin user in the user table (usually jos_users) to

a2663e322ca02db62d45ecc2f02d04eb:
1X2HH4O1xXRGxYacxPmejzx31L8yaGXe

(remove the line-break after the colon) and then login with password "password".

Don’t forget to reset the password to something more secure after you login.

What’s the best (or a good) FREE content management system/script for a myspace resource website?

I’m looking for a script that will better help me manage the graphics website I am building. I want it to make it easier to update, add pages, have everything organized, maybe with some sort of tagging/category system. The type of site I am building is a myspace resource site… you know, like Aerocharm, iRockstarz, Whaterverlife, etc… I want something that will better help me manage my content. Something simple and not overly complex please, thanks.

Joomla is the top rated CMS available on the market.

I would suggest using Joomla for any CMS needs.

Where can I find a content management tutorial?

Hey hey.

I’ve just mastered making a php blog using dreamweaver, and now I want to make a content management system…I suppose the only real difference is that with the blog, postings can’t be removed or modified…

Does anyone know where I would be able to find a tutorial? Would much prefer a dreaweaver based one because I’m on a deadline and need it doing asap (and dreamweaver’s useful for that)
I don’t want something complex. Just a case of updating content, being able to delete or modify.

Zahir is right… writing a CMS yourself is like trying to build a car from iron ore you found in your backyard.

Given your question edit, I think you are not looking for a full-fletched CMS. I suspect that what you actually only want to do is being able to have a web interface which will allow to edit and delete the blog posts etc you make.

Nevertheless, writing this from scratch is quite an undertaking, with or without dreamweaver. You would not only need to understand PHP quite well, but also have a fair deal of knowledge of MySQL or any other database you use to store your data in.

What I would really recommend is that you download and familiarize yourself with an existing open-source PHP-based CMS and adapt that to your own needs. This still requires quite a steep learning curve if you want to modify a lot, but it is likely to be much simpler, less time-consuming and more secure than doing it ALL by yourself.

A good open-source PHP-based CMS with an excellent users community which will be happy to include you is Xoops. (http://www.xoops.org)

A more blog-focused open-source and still PHP-based is WordPress, which you probaly have heard of. (http://www.wordpress.org, not to be confused with www.wordpress.com, which is ready-made hosting).

Good luck!