What CMS should I use
Content Management Systems
There are a number of content management systems available in the market place. Up until a few years ago most of these were proprietary and cost vast sums of money to purchase and install.
The Open Source community has developed three great CMS products. Each of them is FREE. And many different developers from around the world work together to improve them.
Building a website is like building a house, you need foundations, wiring, plumbing, frames, trusses, windows and a roof. Then you need to plaster the walls and paint them and put all your furniture into the house and arrange it the way you want.
The three main CMS's available today are
| Wordpress | Wordpress is the easiest to deploy and use for the novice. But Wordpress is like building a granny flat. |
| Joomla | Joomla is a little more complex to get going. But it very easy to use once it's installed and running. It's like building a three bedroom house that your can expand into a mansion when you need to. It's going to grow with your business. |
| Drupal | Is the most complex and many say it's a programmers delight. It's like buying the Taj Mahal, but you need an extensive team of staff to maintain it and keep it looking great. |
My personal favourite is Joomla, it's what I develop in. I can develop simple small website (very quickly and easily) through to large corporate website requiring customised application development. And in an hour I can teach people what they need to know in order to self manage their content and menus
- Tags: CMS, Content Management System, Joomla, Wordpress
About the Author
Peter Leslie
Peter Leslie has worked in IT for over 25 years. He has worked as Trainer, Technical Writer, Network Engineer, Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Management, Project Management, Network Design, Solution Design and Web Solution Development.
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