Content Management Systems

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage & maintain.

Below are some of the CMS platforms we like to use:

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

More information: http://www.joomla.org/

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Mambo has a large and healthy user and developer community. The software itself includes some great features including: advertising management (banners, etc), content display scheduling, content syndication (RSS) & search engine friendly (SEF) URL’s.

More information: http://www.mamboserver.com/

Drupal is a free 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. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites. The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as: E-Commerce, Blogs, Forums, Newsletters & Podcasts etc.

More information: http://www.drupal.org/

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Wordpress, although a blogging platform can also be used as a Content Management System with very few tweaks (eg creating a static homepage) to how Wordpress is intended to function (eg creating a static homepage). There are 1000s of themes & plugins available for Wordpress, allowing users to create bespoke websites & themes.

More information: http://www.wordpress.org/