Ok,

I've come a long way regarding my companies website and my own web dev skills...

Bascially a website for my company has existed for well over ten years in various shapes and sizes...

I've got some PHP, CF, HTML (up to 4), JS programming experience and an extensive background in all things graphic.

So far I've tried a good number of CMS Systems (the usual suspects: Mambo, Joomla, Typo3, Wordpress, Drupal and CMSimple)...  however I have troubles finding the "right" system for my needs - and mind you I don't believe "my needs" are something exotic...

So here's what the CMS should be capable of:

- MULTILINGUAL (built in, please not with plugins or such stuff... I don't like version incompatibilities and after-thought solutions (like joomfish)  I don't want "automated babelfish" translations - basically just the ability to have both content and menues in different languages with manual translations and a "fallback" to english for those  pages where no translation exists

- Easy Templating System -  I don't have a very complex Layout for that specific project - it's simple, sleek, intiuitive and "timeless" - and I don't want / can afford to spend days at learning a specific scripting language or fiddling around with things  - it should be "simple".

- WYSIWYG Editor - preferreably one which is compatible with safari - but it's not a major issue - if it is that's a plus if it isn't I'll use Camino or Firefox on the mac.

- Search engine Friendly URLs  (completely - I don't wan't any "?lang=de&..."  things in there...

- Generally SEO Friendly

- Template system should be able to handle completely tableless  pure CSS Designs (unlike joomla, who can do so, but only barely)

- Simple way to integrate self-programmed modules and stuff...

- NOT BLOATED (Typo3)

- Server Environment:  LAMP   (this is fixed - well it's a hosting I have and am rather happy with the offer and the hosting... I have shell access (not root though))     So no Java or whatever solution

that's it.

at the moment the website: http://www.ferrumdg.com  uses CMSimple - which basically does what I want  but not fully ->

Translation has no "default fallback language" -> this is important, as not every page will be translated (there's no need for that) but I don't think double-content is a good solution for that problem

menu system is very limited  (you can either have something show up or not - but if you hide it from the menu it will not show up in the search or in the sitemap either - which is really bad)

Development has been stopped - the guy (P. Hertag) doesn't want to go on with it - and has even closed the forum (it's read only) - and doesn't reply to any e-mails either - so support and future are a bit on the "brink" - something I truly despise.

Sorry for the lengthy post. ...  but if anyone can give me a solid recommendation  I would be eager to try it out and even pay something for such a solution if it doesn't cost a fortune (preferreably opensource  GPL Stuff though...)

Thanks

  Daniel