WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Mambo and other Content Management Systems can be installed and work great on Hostgator. Either with uploading the files directly via FTP or with Fantastico de luxe (the 1-click install). The installation of the Content management systems worked seamlessly and easy.
First before installing the CMSs, you need to create new mysql database with the database account manager in cPanel control panel, and add user to that database. Sometimes I forget to add user to the database and the install shows errors, but quickly and easy fix this by adding the user to mysql db.

This site is powered by Drupal. I prefer drupal rather than joomla for creating my sites, Wordpress for blogs,
because drupal and wordpress have built in seo (with the clean-urls and url path options, joomla you need to install module for this), and are easy to manage. But also Joomla and Mambo are very good CMSs, have good
number of modules contributed by the community and the developers, and are also easy to install/manage. These CMS are free and open-source meaning you can change the code to suit your needs and add your own features. They are template driven, and there are many templates available for free. You can download them from joomla.org, drupal.org, mambofoundtation.org and wordpress.org respectively.
Some people advise not to use Fantastico de luxe for installing web software for your sites, because the scripts are not always updated to the latest version. Always update your scripts to the latest version! Updates add important security and bug fixes, and new features depending on the realize. Drupal 6 has batch updater so you can easily update the database. On the other hand wordpress is good for blogging. I have installed and tested these systems on HostGator and they work very nice.

This is my first post in 2009, more will follow soon!

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