Planning a site built on a CMS.

Hi, I am currently looking into designing a site for a Spanish company that would operate like the U.S. based site, zillow.com.

Users can log in and sign up so they can add information to pages, while creating new pages. I know a CMS is the way to go, but which one and how to do it?

Thanks,
Vivara

Build the CMS yourself. Your not going to find one that will fit every need you have nor that will do what you need to do in terms of updating the content in the sections that you need it updated. There are software packages that come pre-built that you can use for different things FE - A forum, Real Estate Site, but you get stuck with the limitation of that Program as well as the fact that you have little flexibility.

I personally design all my own CMSs and the biggest trick is modules. Build each piece separately and just add them in to the main page. Makes it sooo much easier.

I agree.
I don't like using other peoples code.
What if your customer complained about something with the cms or wanted a new feature? you wouldn't know what to do without reading and testing all of the cms's code.

Hi Guys, thanks so much for your replies.
I have a good bit of time to do this so I'm not stuck for time.

I have no idea where to start at all. Could you give me a link to a few good tutorials or maybe give me a small bit of info?

Thanks,
Ed

I disagree completely. Don't build one yourself or if you do use a framework. There is now way you could build a CMS as scalable, expandable or secure as some of the best programmers around. Your error handling won't be as good, the interface you build won't be as good. Everything you ever want to do will require more code. Use a CMS that already exists and change it to suit your needs, build a plugin or extension if there is a feature lacking but I doubt for most things that a custom CMS is necessary at all.

Pete.

I thought so too.. I'd be looking to set something up like zillow.com

What do you think?