The days of hard-coding HTML web pages is long gone. Today, there are numerous pieces of software – known as content Management Software(CMS) – which will make your life much easier.
Instead of having to know how to do anything technical, once if your CMS is set up adding a page to your site is as simple as logging into your password protected administration area and typing your article into the box. You click “publish” and the article appears on your site.
But due to many different pieces of content management software’s available it can be difficult to decide which one you should go with. Its often said that just trying a few out is a good idea and I agree with them in principle, installing and trying out a number of these pieces of software can be time consuming so the purpose of this article is to examine a few of the more popular options in the hope that I can cut down on your research time.
Wordpress
Wordpress was created as software to run blogs on but is versatile enough to be used as a full-blown CMS. Wordpress is the easiest CMS of all to install and pleasantly there are loads of free themes available to help you customize the look and feel of your site. There is large number of free plugins also to help to extend the functionality of Wordpress by adding photo galleries, social bookmarketing elements, forums and many more.
80% of my own sites currently run on Wordpress and I am very pleased with the results.
Joomla
Joomla is a slightly more heavy-duty CMS that many of todays large community and content sites are built on. it is more suitable for those whor are either expecting higher visitor numbers or they want an even more customized feel at the end. Whilst it is a little harder to learn to use than Wordpress, While one can generally tell websites which are made with Wordpress because they have some common design and layout, basically with Joomla the sky is the limit.
Joomla too has a very large number of add-ons which helps you to make it do whatever you want right from allowing readers to vote on their best articles to interacting with each other like a bone fide social networking website.
Drupal
Drupal is the third and one of best content management system. It is a very much popular application among web designers.
Lastly, be aware that all three of these options are absolutely free of cost, so if you have a web hosting account you can always install just these few and try them.
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