Content Management Systems are one of the most exciting developments in website development. These systems allow for easy changes to the content on a website. For frequently changing or frequently updated sites, these systems are the wave for the future. It's even possible to give non-programmers a way to submit content!
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 Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that helps run websites and other powerful online applications. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use this software:- Corporate websites or portals
- Online commerce
- Small business websites
- Non-profit and organizational websites
- Government applications
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- School and church websites
- Personal or family homepages
- Community-based portals
- Magazines and newspapers
The possibilities are limitless…Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations. |
 Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.
- A large and healthy user and developer community.
- Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users.
- Online help.
- Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites.
- Trash manager
- Advertising management (banners, etc).
- Media (images, documents) upload and management.
- Content display scheduling.
- Content syndication (RSS).
- Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's.
- Internationalisation (interface translation).
- Content macro language (aka mambots).
- Advanced and separate system administation system.
- Advanced package/addon/template deployment system.
- Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex templating syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include).
- Heirarchial user access groups.
- Basic visitor statistics.
- Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support
- Simple polls
- Content voting/rating system.null
Many more free addons are available at mamboforge.net. Some of these addons include:
- LDAP authentication
- Extended user profiles*Forums
- Media galleriesDocument managers
- Templates
- Events calendar
and many, many more... |
 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 have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including - Community web portals
- Discussion sites
- Corporate web sites
- Intranet applications
- Personal web sites or blogs
- Aficionado sites
- E-commerce applications
- Resource directories
- Social Networking sites
Drupal is ready to go from the moment it is installed. The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, enables features such as: - Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
and much more.
Drupal is open-source software and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. It's free to download and use. If you like what Drupal promises, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your specific needs. |
 Word Press was built with the blogger in mind with many features tailored to the blogger and blogging community.
Here’s a sampling of features that might make you want to use WordPress.com. (Besides it being run by some swell folks!) They’re not fancy-pants marketers, just a group of geeks who are passionate about enabling people to publish on the web. You can explore features below, browse their list of well known WordPress bloggers, or find out which features some of their users like best. When you’re ready, we’d love to have you sign up for a blog with us!
- It's free
- There are dozens of themes available for free
- Ability to Categorize and Tag your posts
- Spell-check, Previews, Autosave, Words, Photos, Videos
- Integrated Stats System
- Automatic Spam Protection
- Lots of Privacy Options, including Members-Only Blogs
- Import from Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, and More
- Great Help If You Need It
- A Great Blogging Community
- Easily Track Followups to your Comments
- Sidebar Widgets for Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, and More
- Manage Regular Pages, not Just Blog Posts
- Export
- Multiple Blogs and Multiple Authors
- No Rebuilding
- Very Fast and Reliable Service
If you are primarily a blogger, then maybe Word Press is for you.
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