Taking the plunge and deciding on the right CMS for a new project can be a hard choice to make. I’ve had a ton of experience using Textpattern the last couple of years but now I need to find a solution which is going to be more suited to ‘general’ content management on a corporate website of a much larger scale, we’re talking version control, user management etc.

I’ve just been taking a look at ExpressionEngine and although there’s a price tag ($249) it looks like it might be just right for my requirements.

Obviously there are other contenders, Mambo and Drupal to mention a few and I’ll be taking a look at both over the next few days.

My experience in the past has always been with bespoke content management solutions for such projects, but I’m not convinved that’s the right path to tread when I’m most likely going to be doing all the work myself, and to be brutal I’d rather pay for something that’s had all the bugs shaken out already so I can concentrate on design and development upon a stable base.