CMS (Content Management)

Content Management Systems (CMS) is a wide area of different software systems. Some of these systems can also be used to manage portals with some modifying. However, in this category we focus on CMS-systems that are easy to use for to manage your web site.

Whether you have a business web site or a private web site you can benefit from using a CMS instead of updating static pages. The software takes care of the publishing so you can focus on to add new content. It will be easier to keep your web site updated and it will be more interesting to your visitors.

The Content Management Systems use to have modules/plugins with which you extend the function of the CMS to fit your needs. They also support different languages as well as you can use skins/themes to modify the look and feel.


NOTE: Demos of the software below will soon be ready on our demo site.

Drupal

Drupal is a multi-task Content Management System with a very flexible architecture. Drupal allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website.

Drupal has a basic layer, or core, which supports pluggable modules that enable additional behaviours. The modules available for Drupal provide a wide assortment of features, including ecommerce systems such as the Amazon Items module, workflow, photo galleries, mailing list management, and CVS integration. Drupal's taxonomy/classification module is especially interesting, in that it allows any content to be classified with a flexible tagging system. Drupal achieves clean integration between the core and the modules via a system of hooks, or callbacks, to allow modules to insert functionality into Drupal's path of execution. Drupal core provides protection against many usual security problems, like SQL injection.

Some of the more specialized roles that Drupal has filled include company intranets, online classrooms, art communities and project management. Many feel that Drupal's focus on user communities is what makes it stand out from its competition.

Drupal is the software used to power Debian Planet, The Onion, Terminus1525, TPM Cafe, Nerdshift, Spread Firefox, and KernelTrap.

 Development Status: Production/Stable.
 License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
 Operating System: Cross Platform.
 Environment: Web Environment.
 Author: Drupal Developers.
 Available Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian(Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
 Available Skins/Themes: -.
 Disk Space Required: - MB.
 Web Site: http://drupal.org

Joomla!

With Joomla! it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage data. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! Web site. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.

Joomla! provides for split front end content access and backend administrator access. Group based access control allows for different levels of system control for both the site and the administrator. The Joomla! framework allows for extension by installable components, modules, languages, templates and plugins that enhance system functions.

Joomla! Is a fork out of Mambo and much between the both systems are still similar.

 Development Status: Production/Stable.
 License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
 Operating System: Cross Platform.
 Environment: Web Environment.
 Author: Joomla! Core Team.
 Available Languages: English.
 Available Skins/Themes: -.
 Disk Space Required: - MB.
 Web Site: http://joomla.org
 Other Resources: Joomla! Extensions Directory

Mambo

Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is a full-featured Content Management System for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use.

Mambo also includes more advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can also automate many tasks such as web indexing for static pages. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities.

Mambo can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Mambo supports more than 20 languages, can be customized with modules/components and skins/themes.

 Development Status: Production/Stable.
 License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
 Operating System: Cross Platform.
 Environment: Web Environment.
 Author: Mambo Foundation.
 Available Languages: English.
 Available Skins/Themes: -.
 Disk Space Required: - MB.
 Web Site: http://mamboserver.com