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What is the best CMS for a website?

I am in the process of building a website. Unlike my other sites I wan't to use a cms this time. In your opinion what do you think is the best cms. I have tried joomla and drupal and wordpress. Joomla seemed sluggish and the admin panel wasn't very good. Drupal worked great until I tried to convert my html theme to it. Wordpress worked great! Really liked it but it is just to much of a blogging system. I wan't a website. I also tried surreal cms it was the best so far all I had to do was ad class="editable" to the divs and spans that I wanted to edit. The problem with it is the actual admin panel is hosted on their site. Is there anything like this that I can host on my own server. It would need to be PHP I am a linux dedicated server. I have no ASP support and I refuse to install the apache mods. Thank-You! PS For anyone wondering on how surreal cms works it hooks up to your ftp system.

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1. Which CMS (if any) is best for you depends on what you want your site to do. Look at http://php.opensourcecms.com/ and see if any of them are good for you. If not, you might want to write it in Code Igniter http://codeigniter.com/ CakePHP http://www.cakephp.org/ is another possibility.
2. I actually use Wordpress as a CMS myself. We design about 3-5 sites per week for businesses and we always use WP. Say the site has 5 static pages, we simply make those as "Pages" on the front end and place all CMS type data in the back. I think it's your best solution.
3. I would put my tail between my legs and beg joomla to take me back. Joomla is really nice, she is readily cusomizable. You need just a day of reading one of the books on her, and she will treat you well. You seem like a tech guy. Read a joomla book to famililize with creating custome html, etc.
4. Sounds like you've played a lot with CMS. If you don't like any of the CM systems you've mentioned, I actually asked a question about WordPress vs. Joomla last month and got a response that recommended me to use another CMS. It's called Concrete 5. It looks pretty sweet, but I am already going with Joomla! as I like what I see and the add ons are free. Here is the website: http://www.concrete5.org/ If you want to read what he told me on my question, you can read it here. Hopefully that helped. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiIv9AqdtSOuoTjl_Cg0g3Hsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100208190647AAedezV
5. Wordpress .
6. Drupal i choose,with blog and forum wordpress,when you have 10000 posts the system very be very slowly Joomla i never use this...