A Content Management System (CMS) can be installed behind your website, enabling you to quickly and easily create new pages and post news items onto your site. Many CMS are free and open source which makes them ideal for nonprofit use.
If your web designer suggests building your new website using Drupal or Joomla or MODx or any one of the hundred other open source CMS out there, how do you know if you’ll like it or even get the hang of it? Well, you could visit the OpenSourceCMS website and try it out. This excellent website gives you full admin rights to some of the best CMS so you can give them a try and play around with all their features.
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not a big fan of cms, people resell them as websites theyve made themselves! good resources though thanks
neil
on August 21st, 2008
Neil, I assume you mean when people sell websites with the default theme/template of the CMS? I’ve known that happen sometimes.
With any CMS the developer should design their own theme and by doing so can change the whole look and style of the website.
The functionality can also be altered by the developer. They can install and write new plugins to customise the way the CMS works.
With a CMS you get a basic framework to build on, and by picking a popular open source product you get code that’s been tested and problems fixed by its community of users. And you give clients a simple tool to edit their own website.
There are alternatives, I still occasionally use Adobe Contribute instead of a CMS.
So Neil, what would you offer clients instead of a CMS?
admin
on August 22nd, 2008
It’s a good site. I’d also like to recommend my site where I review them and have a massive list of available CMS systems.
It’s at http://cmstester.com
Mike Johnston
on August 22nd, 2008
Mike,
I really like your CMS Tester website, the reviews are well-written and I found it really helpful.
Jason
admin
on August 25th, 2008
Some good advice on picking a cms here, so many to choose from, http://boagworld.com/technology/too_many_content_management_systems/
Hami
on August 28th, 2008