What are the top three CMS providers you suggest?

[IntegrisLoans]

I am on the process of redoing my site and would like to know what the the top three CMS providers you suggest.   The more information, the better.

Thanks

[SteveOllington]

Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. Just don't get a bespoke one made, pick the wrong company to do it and you'll be stuck in an eternal nightmare.

[DisMedia]

ExpressionEngine is great too.

[IntegrisLoans]

So I can use Wordpress as the CMS without using wordpress for the rest of the site?

[SteveOllington]

You're not having the CMS as the whole site?

[IntegrisLoans]

I guess I need to talk to my the company that will build the site. They have a CMS that they want to charge me 20.00 a month to use.  I was under the impression they will building the site and then integrating it.

[SteveOllington]

Hmm, so you could be held to ransom for your own site?

I'm not saying for one minute that the company is bad or anything but the problem with this type of thing is never about how much they charge, it's about the level of service... if staff changes or they take on a bigger client, or any number of things that result in you getting low service, what are you ever going to do about it in that situation?

What if the site and CMS used is no good for SEO purposes, what if they don't allow changes and don't allow others to access the source code. What if things go wrong with hosting or anything else to do with the site?

I would just get the whole thing built in an open source CMS by someone and hosted somewhere you have full access to if I were you.