We get that question at least once a day so we decided to give you some information on how to choose the best CMS for your website. Generally speaking the CMS choice comes down to your personal needs. If you need a personal/hobby/small site or blog we strongly advise you to use Wordpress - it's highly flexible and has loads of templates/plugins that are free. Wordpress is also great for a news site as you can add thumbnails to entries and change the way the homepage works quite easily.

Another great and flexible CMS is Joomla. Joomla is one of the few CMS systems where you can add say a forum to your website keeping its look and feel (embed it) with just a few clicks. Joomla is now one of the best developed CMS software on the Internet.

If you're looking at a forum please choose Vbulletin if you can afford the price. Otherwise use PhpBB since it's free and highly customizable with loads of themes/plugins.

Should you be concerned on ease of use - we can recommend CMS made simple, MODx and again Wordpress. If you are looking at a more complicated site look into Joomla and Drupal since both come with tons of features.

At the end of the day it comes down to testing the demos of all of the above and a few more. There are over 100 CMS systems available at opensourcecms.com where you can test drive both the frontend and the administrative backed and see which one is the best.