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Where is the Typepad of Content Management Systems?

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I've been playing around with content management systems for the past couple of months: Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, and more homegrown solutions. It seems that they're all pretty good, but I think there's a huge market opportunity for someone to develop the Typepad or Backpack of content management systems. By that I mean a CMS system that is:

  • Free or cheap
  • Ready to go in five minutes after signup
  • Looks great
  • Easy to use
  • Powerful
  • Scaleable
  • Customizable
  • Web 2.0 look and feel

So far I haven't found anything like this. Some try but they don't quite get there. Maybe somebody needs to read Getting Real and start filling this hole.

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Jordon said:

Mosaic has a site that is powered by WordPress and it looks amazing. Both blog and CMS.

darren said:

wordpress wordpress wordpress wordpress....

wordpress is great if you're setting up on your own server, it also has a large community of people creating plugins and templates and widgets.

wordpress also has a free wordpress.com server set up as an alternative to blogger.com

drupal's nice, (we use it for idolblog.com) but i have to admit being a huge fan of wordpress as a cms that is both powerful and easy to install and easy to template and modify...