Selecting The Right CMS For Your Website
When starting your own website or blog, you need to think that what is it that makes your website unique and stands out from the crowd? Those traditional HTML only websites days have passed. Now is the age of using a CMS (short for Content Management System) for website creation. By using a CMS like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc we can develop a full-fledged website, with zero coding knowledge required. But you'll need to make the hard decision of which one to choose from.
Popular CMS like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are open source, easy to use and thousands of tutorials available to get more help. The community of these apps is also very active and the developers release an updated version whenever they find any security hole or want to add more features. Let's take a look at each CMS individually.
WordPress
WordPress is a popular open source Content Management System powered by MySQL and PHP. Currently, it's very popular and user friendly platform. It is used by approx 13% of the Internet's 1,000,000 biggest websites. There are also many resources available for tutorials which makes learning WordPress very easy. Some key features:
W3C Standards compliance.SEO friendly.Simple permalink structure.Wide range of Themes and Plugins available.Visitors can leave comments on posts and pages.Apps available for WordPress for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and webOS.
Joomla
It is a free open source framework content management and publishing system. The platform is ideal for designing and developing multi-language websites, online communities, media portals and websites with ecommerce applications. Like WordPress, Joomla too supports installing additional addons to add more functionality to the website. Joomla is also a good web building platform but requires a learning curve.
Free and open source.Customizable template design.Supports comments, polls and voting.Many different add-ons and templates available.Private content can be accessed by registered users only.Websites can be hosted on Windows or Linux servers.
Drupal
Drupal is yet another free and open source software package. Drupal helps you to manage and publish different kind of web content on a website. Drupal also uses PHP which is ideal for a website that use database to store content. Let's take a look at some of the key features of Drupal.
Free and open source CMSSupport for multiple sites through single installationScalableInterlinkingPage caching feature to load web pages fasterIn-built News Aggregator
The Final Verdict
Now that we have understood each and every CMS in detail, we can safely come to a conclusion. Every CMS has its own plus points and minus points. These CMS offers different features and functionality. It all depends on the type of website you're thinking to create. For e.g. if you want to build a blog, then WordPress is the best choice for you.
You can choose any CMS from WordPress, Drupal and Joomla as you can't go wrong with any of them. If you're stuck somewhere you can always head over to their official forums and create a new topic. They have a very active community and you'll get a reply soon.
Saqib is a technology writer and WordPress enthusiast. He writes on BeginWP which is a source of WordPress tutorials for beginners.
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