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Discussion on: What is the easiest CMS to build a simple website?

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Etienne

Netlify CMS is worth a shot. netlifycms.org/

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Stokry

Thank you!

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Noah Maizels

GhostCMS is probably best for blogs. Strapi is pretty good too. Both those are open source. GraphCMS is nice, easy to use and also very powerful, but closed source and their text editor is not great.

An important question you need to answer is who is going to be using the CMS? Are they ok with using markdowns or they want something simpler and more like the Medium.com editor. If that's important, go for GhostCMS.

Personally I also really like NetlifyCMS but I really struggled with getting it working right when I didn't host my site on Netlify. Its text editor also isn't as good as Ghost. But if you need it for something beyond blogs / text, Ghost probably isn't the best choice.