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Over the next couple of weeks I'll throw together a review of the various content management systems you can use for web development and hopefully find some good videos that give a brief intro into these CMS's. I thought I'd start with the Concrete5 CMS. Not as famous as other platforms (wordpress, drupal, joomla etc.) but a great base to build your web sites. Concrete5 is now open source but was originally built in 2003 for AdCouncil (an American non-profit organisation that distributes public service adverts on behalf of various sponsors including the US government). Unlike many other CMS platforms Concrete5 didn't start out as a blogging tool - this makes it great for building non-blog style websites (but you can add blog functionality using a free blog add-on). Some of the benefits of Concrete5: It's free You can rebrand and resell It's easy to take HTML/CSS designs and then add the CMS functionality There's a marketplace of Add-ons (blogs, w...

Okay, so let me start by saying that Nuggetz isn't a fully blown CMS like Wordpress or Concrete5, it's simple.. really really simple. It's like the first CMS I built in PHP (but looks nicer) that allows simple content management of static web pages. It's what you want if you have a web site with a few static pages and you want your client to be able to edit the contents.  It's so easy for content management you KNOW that whoever changes the content can't get confused. They can't bugger up the whole site by clicking on the wrong control panel - because there aren't any control panels.  They just login and edit the "nuggets" of information right inside the pages!!! The reason I've included this is that it could well be the solution you've been looking for - easy content management for a simple brochure style website. No bells, no whistles, no add-ons widgets or plugins. As it's so simple there aren't many videos about Nugg...