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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