Know of a good CMS and E-commerce combo?
I have been doing websites as a hobby and want to get a little more pro an pick a CMS and e-commerce package to get really good with. Does anyonw know a good pair to use? Or does the cart handle CMS? I am looking mostly for the best usability for my end users and feature rich as well. If you answer will you give a small bit as to why you recommend what you do?
















Free Content Management Systems:
http://www.pligg.com/
http://drupal.org/
http://opensourcecms.com/
http://www.joomla.org/
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
File Thingie?(small web-based file manager written in PHP. It is intended for those who need to give others access to a part of their server’s file system when FTP is not practical): http://www.solitude.dk/filethingie/
eCommerce (Some Free):
Mal’s e-commerce is a FREE Shopping Cart Service: http://www.mals-e.com/
Free Shopping Cart Software for Joomla! & Mambo: http://virtuemart.net/
Create your own Online Store for Free with Free Webstore: http://www.freewebstore.org/
eCRATER.com is both a free web store builder and a free online marketplace: http://www.ecrater.com/
Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with
You might want to check out http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ This is a great tool to compare different CMS.
Another site is http://php.opensourcecms.com/ where you can actually try-out the various applications on a hosted server.
You may want to start with a simple CMS to learn the basics then try out more advanced ones.
If you have a Virtual Machine setup you can play with these different setups without messing up a base PC you are using.