My Favorite 13 Free Content Management Systems
A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don’t have to.
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, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
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 are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Jojo is a PHP-based free CMS for web developers wanting to build good websites. We like sites that are fast, standards compliant, easy to manage, search engine friendly and design flexible.
The Jojo team are Harvey Kane and the Web Development team at gH Web, Mike Cochrane and Tom Dale. Harvey is a New Zealander now living in Ireland. The gH Web team work from Auckland, New Zealand.
Jojo Open Source CMS offers a fair bit of functionality out of the box, that other paid or free CMS systems don’t have, or require hacking to have. Here are some of our favorite features…
CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their own sites with a minimum of fuss.
From a simple brochure site to a complex portal, CMS Made Simple puts the power of a modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips. And best of all, it’s free!
Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Frog is charting its own development path.
Frog requires PHP5, a MySQL database or SQLite 3 with PDO, and a web server (Apache with mod_rewrite is highly recommended). It is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3. The source is available from Frog’s Google Code project page.
Frog is unique because of its simple templating code. Because it uses PHP directly, there is no need to learn yet another scripting language. This approach has two main advantages:
ocPortal – the web content management system (software for building and maintaining a dynamic website) that keeps you behind the wheel.
ocPortal’s powerful feature-set means there’s always a way to accomplish your vision.
Not only does it have all the features you’d expect: for instance galleries, news, file downloads and community forums/chats, but it does so whilst meeting the highest accessibility and professional standards. It is also smart enough to go beyond page management, to automatically handle search engine optimisation, and provide aggressive hack attack prevention.
With ocPortal, you get much more than just a Content Management System.
MemHT Portal is a Free Multilingual Content Management System and Blog
? It permit the creation and the management online of websites with few and easy steps
? It’s completelly customizable, expandable and suitable for all needs
Symphony is an open source content management system designed to let developers program exclusively in the XSLT templating language.
The philosophy behind Symphony is that nothing should be sacrificed for flexibility – developers should have full control over their website’s markup, URLs and data structures.
sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven Content Management System. sNews is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It’s easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. sNews consists of only one core engine file, one independent template file and its accompanying CSS stylesheet file, plus an .htaccess file that makes all URLs search engine friendly.
