CMS (Content Management Systems) have simplified the life of both the web designers/developers and website owners. The recent popularity of these systems and the high amount of support from the online communities has led CMS to grow rapidly. Open source CMS is a favorite among the web designers as numerous plug-ins have been developed for these software. Here are the 8 top most Open Source CMS that has become quite popular with the web designers.
Drupal:
This has become the first choice for large number of web designers and developers and thus it has the highest online community support. Drupal has got several useful modules, plugins such as CCK, ImageField, Views, Images API and much more. Drupal is home to nearly 6487 modules. Drupal supports in making all sorts of websites such as E-commerce websites, social bookmarking site, social networking, or any other website. This system is also SEO friendly and this has enhanced its popularity. It is certainly the most powerful CMS on web.
WordPress:
WordPress is a widely used CMS that was released in 2003. It is a simple CMS with wide collection of themes. In fact, the themes keep on coming every week and it has nearly 1020 themes at present with 6830 plug-ins. WordPress is used extensively for making blogs and E-commerce websites. The greatest plus points of WordPress is that it is not only SEO friendly but it also has automatic pinging to popular search engines.
Joomla:
Joomla has acquired much acclaim after Drupal as the most efficient web content Management Solution used by developers and designers. Joomla enables the person to make a quite powerful website in comparison to WordPress. It has great online community support and it has a well inbuilt forum. This system also has many plugins and extensions that can make you build websites such as education website, tutorial website, and E-commerce website and so on.
PrestaShop:
This is once again a very powerful CMS that is based on the Smarty template engine. This software is free and has availability of 15 languages on it with full support for English and French. The system enables the user to include extra functionality and makes more usage of AJAX for its excellent performance. This software also has an official marketplace for getting modules and themes though these are not free but available on PrestaStore.
Mambo:
This is a good CMS for making websites for small business to medium sized business. Several plug-ins and add-ons of Mambo offers a lot more for your website. It has got several interesting extensions such as multimedia galleries, E-commerce, shopping carts, document management tools, customer relationship managers and much more. It is one of the easy to install software that makes making any changes or updating the content of your website handy and quite easy.
Movable Type:
This is an amazing CMS with multi-user support and several useful plugins. Movable Type has proved itself to be great as a blogging platform. The CMS provides better control over your website and therefore, it suitable for all kinds of websites. However, one of the major drawback of this system is that it has poor online supporters therefore, any query solving takes longer time than usual.
Moodle:
Moodle is one of the popular open source CMS for making tutorial websites. There are several plug-ins and modules that aids in creating a good tutorial website. The system also supports chatting systems and hence, proves to be very useful for online tutorials too.
Liferay:
This CMS is easy to use and is developed on Java. This software is quite popular with the large business as it is based on Java. However, it is the best software for building huge websites with superb security. Liferay CMS has two available versions i.e. standard version which comes with MIT license and is free of cost and enterprise version which costs you. You can select the kind of enterprise edition that you need from the four categories which are as follows, Basic, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
