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CMS
Content Management Systems
(CMSs) are designed to help with
publishing and managing a variety of
content and create a news-based
web portal (not necessarily news).
CMSs allow the end-users (authors)
to provide new information to
websites in the form of articles, and
have a concept of the workflow for
the target users, which defines how
the new content is routed around the
system.
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The Role of a CMS
A CMS provides capabilities for
multiple users with different
permission levels to manage (all
or a section of) content, data or
information of a website project,
or internet/intranet application.
Managing content includes
creating, editing, archiving,
publishing, collaborating,
reporting and distributing
website content, data and
information.
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There is more to CMSs than
WordPress and Drupal
Open-source content management systems, such as WordPress and
Drupal get a lot of attention on design blogs and developer forums;
however, these are not the only options when it comes to choosing a
CMS.
There are a number of hosted CMS tools available that are popular with
designers as well as their clients. Let’s take a quick look at some of these
platforms
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Joomla – An award winning CMS
platform
Joomla is one of the most widely
used CMS applications, suitable
for creating corporate websites,
online magazines, community-
based portals and much more. It
has numerous built-in features as
well as a large selection of extra
modules and components that
enhance the value of your
website and enrich the visitors’
experience.
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Pro
s Powerful
admin interface for managing large amounts of
information and data
With your own web hosting space, you have the ability to use
Joomla for free
Loads of downloadable plug-ins for handling various needs of
the users
Cons
Room for customization gets sacrificed a bit when using Joomla
Learning Joomla can be time consuming, especially if you are
new to web design
Joomla does not allow you the luxury to design your own
graphics or layout
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WordPress – An all-in-one web
publishing platform
WordPress is the most popular
blogging platform in the world. Because
of its popularity and enormous
following, it has evolved a lot since its
original incarnation, and now you can
use it for managing a complex content-
driven website.
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Pro
s Capable of handling multiple authors, specialized content types,
and much more
Provides you with the most stable versions of all server software
Cons
Needs to be updated fairly frequently, and the updates can often
break your existing plugins
Cost of managed WordPress depends on how much
management you need
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Drupal – A household name in the
world of website services
With Drupal, you can easily build a diverse array of web pages – from
simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal’s design is not as
fancy as that of Joomla; however, it is very easy to customize, and has
built-in search capability, Furthermore, its extra module for search-engine
friendly URLs is certainly a blessing. Additionally, it has discussion
capabilities and a classic news aggregator function.
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Pro
s Many of the modules maintained by professional developers are
available for free
An array of user-friendly features, including the menu
management, RSS-feeds, and more
Allows user contribution while the admin has the control over
new creations for publishing
Cons
Difficult learning curve and is tougher to use compared to
Joomla and WordPress
High number of tools and features embedded in the Drupal CMS
can affect its performance
Though the platform is comparatively new, it is not compatible
with several other systems
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Typo3 – The Enterprise Open
Source CMS
TYPO3 is suitable for enterprise
websites and for intranets. There is a
flexible basic Typo3 installation that
can be extended through extra ready-
made modules and interfaces. The
design of TYPO3 is template-based
and the webmaster can create own
templates using the configuration
language TypoScript.
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Pro
s Creating a template is pretty straightforward even for people with
no coding experience
Free, powerful plug-ins, downloadable from the extension
repository
Cons
Extremely difficult to learn compared to Joomla, Drupal or
WordPress
Plugins for forms and frontend aren’t “there” yet in terms of
functionality
