Archive for 'CMS Systems'
Is a Drupal Membership Website the Best Option?
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Steve.
Drupal has long been one of the most popular content management systems among webmasters. However, with the growing popularity of membership websites, many people are wondering whether or not a Drupal membership website is the best choice. This decision, for many people, will come down to how much work they want to do in order to set up and integrate the additional modules into their website. While there is no “right” answer, by understanding what will need to be done in order to create a Drupal membership website, making this decision can be much easier. Drupal historically has been considered to have a steeper learning curve than many other popular CMS options. This makes integrating additional modules to create a membership website simpler for seasoned users than for newer Drupal webmasters. In order to create a membership website, there are several common modules that will need to be installed. These [...]
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Joomla
Posted on 31. Oct, 2009 by Steve.
What is 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. What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do? Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example: * Corporate Web sites or portals * Corporate intranets and extranets * Online magazines, newspapers, and publications * E-commerce and online reservations * Government applications * Small business Web sites * Non-profit and organizational Web sites * Community-based portals * School and church Web sites * Personal or family homepages Who uses Joomla? Here are just a few examples of Web sites that use Joomla: * MTV [...]
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Drupal
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Steve.
Drupal, an open source content management platform. 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, 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 The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as: Electronic commerce 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 distributed under the GPL (“GNU General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work [...]
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WordPress is The Best Blogging System
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Steve.
WordPress is a blog publishing application and content management system. It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, WordPress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide. Features: WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capability; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for [...]
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