most user-friendly CMS for non-techies

[jeffg]

My client now wants me to research re-doing his site so that he can, on
his own, make updates to the text and images on the pages. (He's
running on a Win2003 server.) I intend to start learning about
DotNetNuke to see if it's appropriate for him, but I think this group
may be able to advise me whether DotNetNuke is overkill. I don't think
I need a full-blown CMS for him. Mostly he just wants to be able,
occasionally, to add or replace pictures on some pages. He's reasonably
good using a browser but otherwise lost in all Web and PC subjects.

Are there any dot.Net CMS's that support his skill level?

[Curt_C [MVP]]

jeffg wrote:

My client now wants me to research re-doing his site so that he can, on
his own, make updates to the text and images on the pages. (He's
running on a Win2003 server.) I intend to start learning about
DotNetNuke to see if it's appropriate for him, but I think this group
may be able to advise me whether DotNetNuke is overkill. I don't think
I need a full-blown CMS for him. Mostly he just wants to be able,
occasionally, to add or replace pictures on some pages. He's reasonably
good using a browser but otherwise lost in all Web and PC subjects.

Are there any dot.Net CMS's that support his skill level?

Does it matter if its .NET, really?
Look at Rainbow perhaps. Also (it's costly though) look at Sharepoint.
There are a number of Windows server OS based portals out there, and I
suspect that DNN is probably one of the most popular and easily
supported, if that's a factor for you as well.

--
Curt Christianson
site: http://www.darkfalz.com
blog: http://blog.darkfalz.com

[Aaron Corcoran]

Jeff,

Coming from a biased person (I used DNN since its early stages), I
really think that it's a great package. It isn't extremely robust
as some of the linux based, open-source solutions such as Mambo and
phpNuke, but it does do the job fairly well. If you have any further
questions on DNN, I will try to assist you as much as possible.

Although I have done little development with DNN, I have done quite a
bit of customization and a number of sites that have used the
technology. Curt also mentioned the use of Sharepoint Portal. This is
a rather costly idea as mentioned; however, you may be able to tweak
Sharepoint Team Services (free) to also handle your requests. I find
it to be a nice tool to use.

Let me know!
Aaron

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Curt_C [MVP] shared this with us in
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet:

Does it matter if its .NET, really?

I know this is a .NET newsgroup, but why not PHP/MySQL based?
Things like Mediawiki, Tikiwiki/CMS, Xoops, SimpleCMS etc are known to
work perfectly on IIS.

For example Xoops is used by my city council (www.sint-niklaas.be), and
most civil servants I know are no computer experts at all...

On www.opensourcecms.com you can test drive CMS's.

--
Amedee Van Gasse