COVER STORY 13 FREE WEBSITE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOFTWARE Building a website has become much easier using content management systems. Now you don’t need to mess around HTML/CSS pages. So, here are some awesome Content Management System options that make the jobs of developers and website publishers much easier – Raj Kumar Maurya ordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is Winstalled on a web server that is either part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. The first case may be a service like WordPress. com, for example, and the second case could be a computer running the software package WordPress.org. Joomla thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites. SilverStripe The SilverStripe CMS is a flexible open source Content Joomla is an award-winning content management Management System that gives everyone involved in a system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and web project the tools they need to do their jobs. powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the Cushy CMS most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Drupal Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of 46 PCQUEST APRIL 2017 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] CushyCMS is a Content Management Systems (CMS) dotCMS that is truly simple. It’s free for unlimited users, unlimited changes, unlimited pages and unlimited sites. Frog CMS The fully functional GPL version of dotCMS continues to forge ahead – providing bleed–edge features and the latest code to a thriving community of developers and users. Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, Expression Engine simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Frog is charting its own development path. MODx ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website. If you’re tired of the limitations of your current CMS then take ExpressionEngine for a spin… Radiant CMS MODx helps you take control of your online content. An Open Source PHP application framework, it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours. Zero restrictions and fast to build. Super-simple templates in regular HTML/CSS/JS (any lib you want). Registered user systems and a killer community. Welcome to web-building nirvana. Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams that was built on Ruby Contao on Rails. It gives an endless list of awesome features and is definitely worth checking out. concrete5 A CMS made for Marketing, but strong enough for Geeks! Concrete5 is an open source content management system. It’s revolutionary – and it’s free. papaya CMS Contao CMS is a web CMS that Uses Ajax and Web 2.0 papaya CMS is an open source content management technologies, has a live update feature for those of us system, free of charge and complying with open who have multiple blogs, gives multi-language support standards like XML as data format, XSLT as templating and hosts a ton of other great features language, and PHP for programming. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] APRIL 2017 PCQUEST 47.