Whether or not using a CMS depends on what you want to do with your website, what development skills you have, and the timeframe for deployment.
CMSs are normally pretty quick to deploy and configure, and are also easy to maintain afterwards. I personally have looked at Joomla once or twice, but preferred PHPNuke to Joomla. A brief list of CMSs that run on PHP/MySQL systems is below:
- Drupal
- Geeklog
- Joomla
- Mambo Open Source
- PHP-Nuke
- phpWCMS
- phpWebSite
- Post-Nuke
- Siteframe
- TYPO3
- Xoops
I think I've tried all of them at some point, and personally I prefer PHPNuke, because there are lots of themes and customisations available, and I found it easier and more intuitive to use than some of the others.
What do you want to do with your website? If you are wanting to create a mainly static site, with content that doesn't change much, and not much content overall, a CMS may well be overkill. If you wanted to have order or repair tracking, or something else like that, it could become a bit of a problem integrating that into the CMS, and could end up being more work than just creating your own site (with a basic CMS customised to your needs?)
Another project to check out is Smarty for PHP - www.smarty.net I think is the URL
Hope any of that helps...
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