Content Management Related:

I admitedly have a lot to learn when it comes to this topic but thanks to some savy fellow web monkeys I am getting a good start. Hooray for CMS and how its come along.

• Wordpress
  WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
• Drupal
  Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
  • Great instructional Drupal Videos
    Learn by the drop instructional videos - A place to learn Drupal.
  • Drupal Homepage Configuration
    If so, you've come to the right place. A Padded Cell has sane advice for beginner and intermediate designers, developers, and marketers.
  How to install
  • First go to Drupal.org and download the latest release.
  • Extract the files locally and then upload them into the folder on the server where you want to install Drupal. See the INSTALL.txt for instructions or you can also see
  • Go to sites/default, copy default.settings.php as settings.php and and set read/write permissions to 646
  • Place modules in sites/all/modules *create a dir called modules
  
  
  Modules:
  Modules that I recommend be installed.
  
  
  • Admin Menu - Great to help you manage your website. A must have.
  • Path Auto - The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias.
  • Token - The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values
  • Google Analytics - We all need those valuable stats!
  • XML Sitemap - The XML sitemap module creates a sitemap that conforms to the sitemaps.org specification. This helps search engines to more intelligently crawl a website and keep their results up to date.
  • Views - The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost anything in Views 2) are presented.
  • CCK - The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser.
  • Page Title - SEO Purposes
  • Add This - Social Networking
  • Twitter
  • WYSIWYG - Formatting
  • Feeds
  • Mollum - A great antispam module.
  • Nice Menus
  • Search 404
  • Add to any
  • Private Message
  • Webform - Great for setting up expanded forms on your drupal website.
  • Meta Tags - This project allows you to set some meta tags for each Drupal page.
• Joomla
  Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.