Open Source Web CMS

Wordpress is world’s largely used Content management and blog publishing system. This is used by over millions of bloggers and is most famous CMS. Many of us don’t know that fact that Wordpress is the successor to a CMS project popularly known as cafelog/b2 until may 2003. Its precursor was one of the most extensive used CMS that time. Initially started as a blog publishing platform , its developers successfully made a CMS out of it. Wordpress is one of the primitive CMS available to the users all over the world. And the best part is that it is an open source web content management system.

eZ publish is a simple and convenient web based content management system. It is also called as “easy publish” as it helps bloggers and web site owners to easily publish their content online. It is a freely available tool and its enterprise version is also available with maintenance and support. The biggest advantage of using eZ is that it supports development of the web based application. This web based application can be integrated with your web browser very easily. eZ Publish has focused on providing user friendly and convenient CMS.

CMS Made Simple uses a modular approach and hence is reusable. It is used by numbers of developers and designers all over the world. It can host complex business websites, corporate applications to small personal blogs. CMS Made Simple offers a WYSIWYG editor; content editors can simply edit content without going deep into the HTML source code. CMS made simple offers several layout structures which help in easily editing the website content and layout. It enhances reusability, which means one design can be used for other websites.

Joomla is one of the most used Content Management Systems in the world. Joomla is the result of the fork of a software called Mambo. Mambo was a CMS that was used to create websites and managing their content through simple web interface. Joomla is the fork of Mambo. Fork implies the development of a new project by working on the source code of another (parent ) project to create a distinct piece of software. So, the development of Joomla was made possible by modifying the source code of project Mambo. Joomla came into existence on August 17, 2005 by the Joomla development team.

Website Baker is a content management system designed by Ryan Djurovich and it is mainly used to create small and medium-weighted websites. Website Baker is designed by using PHP and MySQL, it runs under open source license and is available as complete free cms. It introduction name was WCMS and later named as “Website Baker”. Website Baker CMS allows user to create websites as they want and provide full integration and flexibility according to their usage. Users can change their settings i.e. themes, fonts, color contents etc instantly.

Typo 3 is an elegant and small enterprise class CMS which provides enterprise level solution for website owners and developers. With an complete and clean set of modules and a high performance MVC architecture. Typo3 allows you to integrate it with any possible set of scalable and extendable web application. The user friendly functions and tools of typo3 give content editors the freedom to manage a website in just a couple of mouse clicks. It has features like multimedia integration, server side image verification and generation which make it a top CMS product.

Movable Type is a social weblog publishing system which is developed by the company Six Apart. Movable Type is most used and extremely useful for blog platforms, as it supports multiple users, themes, comments and tagging. Movable Type has been one of the best CMS or blogging systems available and powers the largest and most influential blogs on the web. Being both a commercial and open source CMS you get the advantages and disadvantages of both sides.

Pligg is a Digg clone that adds social book marking functionality to websites, allowing users to post links, vote them up or down, and leave comments. It is primarily influenced by the most popular English technology site Digg, where when a user submits a news article which is then placed in the “upcoming” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. Pligg is an open source CMS that can be downloaded and used for free. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on website so that they can submit content and connect with other users.

The name Moodle is actually an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. It is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a course management system, learning management system (LMS) or virtual learning environment. It is basically designed to help educators create effective online learning sites with opportunities for rich interaction. It is a global development project designed mainly to support a social constructionist frame work of education.

Drupal is open source CMS which is used by numbers of bloggers and website owners to manage their blogs and websites. The standard release of Drupal is called Drupal Core. Drupal has an edge over its competitors in the area of development and customization. It is also referred to as a content management framework. It can run on any web server capable of running PHP and use its My SQL database sever. Drupal was developed by Dried Buytaert as a message board, which on further development became an open source project.