WHAT WHAT....... WHY!!!!
So I picked the first cms to work with and after a easy install I ran into problems with documentation and how to do some things. Managed t work out a load of things and dida power of searching on topics via online to find out how to do some simple things and put together a fair bit of the site. But when I turned on friendly url's everything broke and I was told I wasnt running the correct version of php, which confused me as it was all working before.
So I had to uninstall and try and try reinstalling only to find out there were many issues re-stalling over a previous install. I ended up having to create a new subdomain and install there. but ran into many similar issues with wrong php versions. Will try a new fresh install on a new subdomain and will look into updating the verson of php on the server as well.