Open Source CMS Software
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 Click For a Bigger Picture. Content Management Systems (CMS) is a wide area of different software systems, a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. Content Management Systems are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and web content. Whether you have a business web site or a private web site you can benefit from using a CMS instead of updating static pages. The software takes care of the publishing so you can focus on to add new content. It will be easier to keep your web site updated and it will be more interesting to your visitors. The Content Management Systems use to have modules/plugins with which you extend the function of the CMS to fit your needs. They also support different languages as well as you can use templates to modify the look and feel. CMS Made Simple
CMS Made Simple is an open source (GPL) package, built using PHP that provides website developers with a simple, easy to use utility to allow building small (dozens to hundreds of pages), semi-static websites. CMS Made Simple is used for corporate websites, or the website promoting a team or organization, etc. There are other content management packages that specialize in building portals, or blogs, or article based content, etc. CMS Made Simple can do much of this, but it is not the area of focus. The Core package provides the ability to manage news articles, search functionality a contact form, a WYSIWYG editor (for your customers or editors) and numerous other built in functions. Additionally, there are hundreds of third party add-on tools that are quickly and easily installable to allow building websites with many different capabilities. Development Status: Production/Stable. Drupal
Drupal is an open source software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Individual users as well as organizations can use it on personal or business web sites and blogs, discussion and ecommerce sites. Organizations that need content management will like Drupal's effective security, support infrastructure, scalability, customizable permissions and user roles. Images and other media are supported as are comments. Organizers can easily share ideas, use the preconfigured tools for community management and the self-organizing features. Small business owners can set up their own site, customize its style and layout and change it as their business grows. Drupal has ecommerce support for shopping carts and paid-content subscriptions. The permissions don't require that each person be authorized; permissions can be assigned to roles which in turn can be assigned to a group, saving time and simplifying collaboration. Website designers and builders enjoy the ease of creating their own themes and providing client support. Access to designer/developer communities is a real asset. Programmers like the modular system that can be customized and extended, access to developer communities, system and architecture documentation and coding standards. Drupal has many other unique features, such as a collaborative "book" that others can contribute to. URLs are both user and search engine friendly and online help is available to you on your own site. All content is fully indexed for the built-in search module. "From May 2007 to April 2008, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 1.4 million times, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year. A large community now helps develop Drupal." Wikipedia Development Status: Production/Stable. Joomla!
Joomla is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Most details in Joomla can be customized and you have full control of everything. The Joomla extensions database has thousands of existing plugins with which you can extend the functionality of Joomla. Joomla is among the top two or three most popular Open Source content management systems (CMS) on the market. However, it can be hard to start using Joomla but when you have got used to Joomla’s administrative interface it will be quite easy. Even non-technical users can add or edit content, update images, and to manage data. Anybody with basic word processing skills can learn to manage a Joomla website. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Development Status: Production/Stable. Mambo
Mambo is a full-featured Content Management System for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use. Mambo also includes more advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can also automate many tasks such as web indexing for static pages. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities. Mambo can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Mambo supports more than 20 languages, can be customized with modules/components and skins/themes. Development Status: Production/Stable. |
