Take Your Pick - 15 Great Open Source CMS Systems Print E-mail


In the case of CMS, the old saying of you get what you pay for can be thrown straight out the window. You heard it. These free CMS systems are some of the best products around. Most have at least heard of the top ones but theres a lot out there these days and even more coming. If youre already a CMS pro, then you know that some of the smaller programs coming out have features that the big ones dont, and then some come out that dont come near living up to their hype. The top ones, though, are always worth considering.

Drupal - Thought to be the best of open source CMS. Its powerful and popular.
WordPress - Originally made for blogs, it is now one of the most popular and user friendly things on the CMS market
Joomla! - Always in the top three. Its stable and has been successfully used to create many large corporate sites. Include the United Nations in the list.
b2Evolution - A fantastic utility for CMS and weblog creation. It has support in both categories and sub-categories like skins, comments, stats, anti-spam filters and more.
Moveable Type - Very similar to WordPress and it works.
Alfresco - A very professional CMS that also has a lot of good document management features
Xoops - Expandable and the most popular in the PHP community
E107 - PHP based which is specifically for creation of web portals and professional sites
Dot CMS - Its Java based with all kinds of features
ImpressCMS - The best for ecommerce sites who are also buiding communities
Exponent - Easy. You need no coding experience.
Knowledge Tree Document Management System - Mostly for document management and for document collaboration, storage and organization
Liferay - Java based portal solution
Pivot - Best for dynamic sites, blogs and online journals
Magnolia - Most used by government sites. Java based.


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