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[Scott Lundgren <internetworkers AT capitalfellow.com>]

moodle
my understand is that it is more of a Course Management System for  
online/distance education projects than Content Management System for  
web building

mediawiki
please don't use this. I find wiki's are great for documentation,  
suckage for a website where layout matters

joomla
I recommend joomla for your project. one of the 2 main OSS CMS  
systems (besides Drupal) used on our campus. Drupal excels at multi- 
users editing content, Joomla at single user, both have large active  
communities (drupal's may be slightly larger and more developer  
oriented leading to a steeper learning curve of the two) but both  
have flexible architectures that have fostered large plug-in  
development to add functionalities and integrations you may need. If  
you have a list of those functionalities/needs that you must have I  
would review that against the both communities available components/ 
plug-ins because the experiences I've seen on campus is that a plug- 
in/component may exist for one project but not the other.

pligg
I have no knowledge or experience of it.

$0.02,
SL

> Hello InterNetWorkers --
>
> I am looking at installing one of the CMS products offered by
> DreamHost in the nifty "One-Click Installs" section of their online
> control panel.  I know tiny bits-n-pieces about three of these
> products (mostly read/overheard in prior CMS conversations), but would
> like to query the expert advice of this list.
>
> Have you used any of these products?  In your opinion, what are the
> relative merits and/or weaknesses of these products?  Any other advice
> for a novice site builder?
>
> http://www.pligg.com/ - This one I've never heard of before.
> http://moodle.org/ - Geared towards EDU environments I understand.
> http://www.joomla.org/ - This one seems to be the most popular.
> http://www.mediawiki.org/ - A wiki is just as good as a CMS,  
> right?  :)