Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS)
July 10, 2010 at 6:18 am | Web Design & Development | No comment | Written By Siku Kamaldeen
Many website developers and designers look for decent Open Source Content Management Systems for their projects. Below I have listed down the leading well known Open Source CMS available on the internet today.
WordPress (available at wordpress.org): This is one of my favorites. In 2009 WordPress has been awarded as the Overall Best Open Source CMS. WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites throughout the world. It’s not just a blogging platform. WordPress is an ideal CMS for a small website. Note: blogrevised.com is proudly powered by WordPress.
Drupal (available at drupal.org): Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of web sites.
Joomla (available at joomla.org): 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.
Typo3 (available at typo3.org): TYPO3 is a small to mid-size enterprise class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accommodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension.
CMS Made Simple (available at cmsmadesimple.org): 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. Typically it’s used for corporate websites, or the website promoting a team or organization, etc.
Modx (available at modxcms.com): This is an Open Source Content Management Framework and it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours. Zero restrictions and fast to build. Super-simple templates in HTML/CSS/JS (any lib you want).
MyBB (available at mybb.com): MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible.
There are hundreds of content management systems out there and it will be near-impossible for me to list down every single one of them. I’ll keep on adding more to this list as I discover and experiment with more CM systems – so don’t forget to check back later.
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