There are a number of sites online that focus on reviewing and resources for CMS.

CMS news community is strong always changing. Here is a list of the leading contenders.

• http://www.cmscritic.com/
• http://www.cmsjam.com/
• http://www.cmswire.com/
• http://php.opensourcecms.com
• http://www.blogsweek.com

Choosing a CMS is a very personal thing.

You invest your time, money and effort into learning a system. These are snips from around the tracks, hopefully they introduce a personal aspect to the discussion in choosing a CMS.

…Plus I love c5 because its an awesome editior great for blogs, business, and a whole lot more. Best of all the add ons that are paid actually work. Unlike WordPress where the e-commerce addon for free doesn’t work at all yet the paid one does. At least c5 has standard which I really appreciate. more

…C5 is young, growing, and is still trying to hit it’s stride. There will be features in every CMS that one may prefer over the another. However….if you have a heavyweight belt for translating content delivery to your clients hands…there is no competition at this time for C5. And as far as I am concerned…how “clients” take to a CMS is far more important than how a designer takes to it. Having said that…as a designer, you can do absolutely anything you want with C5…quite easily. more

…We’ve worked with a number of different CMS systems, from Joomla, to Expression Engine, to Drupal to power sites and blogs for clients. I found all of them substantially more difficult to use than WordPress. In terms of blogs, WordPress still seems to be offering more flexibility than anything out there. In fact purely on a CMS basis, I’d argue that with the use of Page Templates, it offers more flexibility than those I mentioned above. Though, this could be a bias on my part as I’m more familiar with WordPress than the others. I can’t say that I’ve experienced any issues with having to update plugins too often. But, I can see that it would be a weakness if you’re using a large number of them. more