Webmaster 9 » content management system http://www.webmaster9.com Free Webmaster Resources Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:06:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 10 Simple and Light Weight CMS Solutions http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/10-simple-and-light-weight-cms-solutions.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/10-simple-and-light-weight-cms-solutions.html#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:18:26 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.50jy.com/?p=55 Choosing the right content management system can be an overwhelming task for a web designer or developer. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For complex websites, a fully featured CMS is probably the best way to go. However, for simple sites, lots of bells and whistles can be overkill and actually be a bit confusing for the person maintaining the website.

In this article, I’ve rounded up 10 simple and light weight cms solutions. All of these systems were built with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind.

Wolf CMS

Wolf 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. Wolf CMS is a fork of Frog CMS. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Wolf has left Frog’s development path.

Get Simple

GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s intuitive user interface, it’s loaded with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t.

Perch

Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.

sNews

sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven Content Management System. It is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. This cms 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.

Zimplet CMS

Zimplit is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It’s easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. Zimplit consists of only one core engine file.

PageLime

PageLime is a simple CMS for web designers. It acts as a remote Content Management System that allows you to update the content, images, and documents on your web site without any setup. All you have to do is add the ‘cms-editable’ CSS class to any element on your site, and we host the application that edits your site.

Surreal CMS

With Surreal CMS, there’s absolutely nothing to install. Just enter your website’s FTP info and you’re connected! Within minutes, you can enable webpages, add content regions, assign editors, and begin updating your website — and you don’t even need an FTP client to get started.

CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. Use it to make a home page for your family — or your multinational corporation!

Simple CMS

A fully branded, easy to use content management system for your clients. All you do is add a little piece of code to your existing site.

CushyCMS

CushyCMS is a Content Management Systems (CMS) that is truly simple. It’s free for unlimited users, unlimited changes, unlimited pages and unlimited sites.

It’s built from the ground up with ease of use in mind – for both content editors and designers. It’s such a simple CMS that it takes less than 3 minutes for a web designer to implement. No PHP or ASP required for this CMS. If you can add CSS classes to HTML tags then you can implement CushyCMS. It’s also a hosted CMS, so no installation or maintenance is needed either.

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/10-simple-and-light-weight-cms-solutions.html/feed 0 My Favorite 13 Free Content Management Systems http://www.webmaster9.com/2009-06/my-favorite-13-free-content-management-systems.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2009-06/my-favorite-13-free-content-management-systems.html#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:33:06 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/?p=39 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

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

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

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 CMS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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