What Makes A Great CMS?
What Makes a Great Content Management System?
Ease of use. If a Content Management System isn't easy to use your website won't get updated. If a website doesn't get updated it will die. A website needs updates to keep the interest of it's readers, to evolve, to keep up with the company or organisation's latest news and products, to score well on search engines. Search engines like websites that evolve and grow and down-rate websites that are old and stale.
Are you ever tasked with updating your website with some news, an event, a new product and think "I don't know where to start" or "it's a pain to update - I'll put this off until tomorrow"? Then what happens? It doesn't get updated and the news is now old or irrelevant or the product doesn't get promoted; a missed opportunity - and why? Because the content management system was difficult to use.
Whatever your list of technical requirements for your content managed website it pays to focus on the day to day maintainability of the website. We heartily recommend Concrete5 as the basis for your new website - it's as easy to use as Wordpress but far more flexible. You will get a website with a long lifespan - you'll keep it updated because its easy to maintain and the system can be expanded over time with new functionality through add-ons as the need arises.