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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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Pros 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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Pros 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 servicesWith 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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Pros 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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Pros 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
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