Content Management Systems(CMS)

A content management system (CMS) is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content. CMSes are typically used for enterprise content management (ECM) and web content management (WCM). CMS provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease.
Some of the most commonly used CMS are Wordpress,Joomla,Drupal.
Wordpress

Wordpress is the most popular and commonly used Content Management System. Wordpress an open source CMS,  It's estimated that nearly 60 percent of websites that use a CMS choose WordPress. And 24 percent of the total web operates through WordPress.
Being open source software, it is constantly enhanced by a community of contributors, including web developers, who create plug-ins and themes for the software. Even a person with minimal coding skills can create a good looking and functional website using Wordpress. WordPress has a fair amount of standard add-ons that should be included with any content management program, such as blogs, email help forms and site maps. It is also one of the few CMS programs we reviewed that has graph and chart generators. In addition, it offers thousands of native or third-party plugins and add-ons for small businesses, including shopping carts, inventory management, affiliate tracking and point-of-sale systems. Using the clearly labeled dashboard, you can customize any of these tools to fit your personal business needs. WordPress offers a sandbox to test content changes without having to publish it first.
Joomla

Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which is used to build websites and online applications. It is free and extendable which is separated into front-end templates and back-end templates (administrator). Joomla is developed using PHP, Object Oriented Programming, software design patterns and MySQL (used for storing the data).
As of 2017, Joomla has been downloaded over 78 million times. Over 7,800 free and commercial extensions are available from the official Joomla Extension Directory, and more are available from other sources. It is estimated to be the second most used content management system on the Internet, after WordPress.
Joomla has most standard add-ons you need for a basic website too. These include blogs, email forms, discussion forums and photo galleries. You can include user-contribution pages and allow visitors to add content. The security measures available with Joomla help protect your important content during any interactions with your site visitors. Captcha ensures that contributors sending information are human, and SSL compatibility gives you the option to password protect sensitive pages and content.

Drupal

Drupal is one of commonly used content management system intended to help advanced designers create websites, which are capable of handling large volumes of visitors and hundreds of pages of content. Drupal is so flexible it can create a simple blog as easily as impressive, interactive business sites. It is written in PHP. Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a Web server capable of running PHP and a database to store content and configuration.


As of April 2017 the Drupal community is composed of more than 1.3 million members, including 106,650 users actively contributing, resulting in more than 37,110 free modules that extend and customize Drupal functionality over 2,445 free themes that change the look and feel of Drupal and at least 1,116 free distributions that allow users to quickly and easily set up a complex, use-specific Drupal in fewer steps.

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