5 Open Source Content Management System Reviewed
Content Management systems are all the rage these days, allowing companies to easily edit and update their sites with limited IT knowledge. Content Management Systems can be either be bespoke or open source, depending on your business model. What a lot of companies don’t realise, is that the intellectual property right of a bespoke CMS Normal resides with the company would built it. This quickly becomes apparent when they try to move away from the company who built the site for them. For a small business, it is probably best to have an open source CMS, so they can do with it what they will. In this blog, I am going to review some of the best Open Source CMS to aid you in your Searches.
Joomla: This is a very easy to set up and use CMS and has a number of very useful add-ons, but if you want it to do anything slightly different to the norm, you’re going to hit a few problems. In comparison with other CMS, there are a lot less developers willing to take on a change to a Joomla CMS code base as each page is made up of so many modules. This type of site is perfect for a lead generator site, but will end up costing you a lot of money if you want it to do something special. Trust me, at one point of my life, Joomla was the bane of my existence.
Text Patter: Properly my least favored from an SEO point of view, but if you want your site to look pretty with a rotating background, this might be right up your street.
Word Press: Primarily used for blogging sites. Word Press can be adapted to be a site wide CMS with an easy to operate interface and loads of easy to install add-ons. Word Press is one of my favored CMS.
Oscommerce: Open source CMS for e-commerce. Probably the most popular CMS for e-commerce businesses, this CMS offer feature such as shopping carts, order history and secure transactions. There is also the advantage of the sear scale of developers who can work with this system, so finding a developer to make changes should be easy, plus you can haggle over the price a little more than with other CMS.
Zen Cart: Does pretty much the same as Oscommerce, but it has become less popular in recent years. Basically, if it boils down to a choice between Oscommerce and Zen cart, I would chose Oscommerce every time.
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