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CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:

A CMS or content management system is programming software that encourages editing,


creating, publishing, and organizing content. 
Content in a content management system normally packs away in a database plus showed in
an introduction layer reliant on lots of layouts. In case that you need to draw in the maximum
number of guests to your site plus keep them all around, at that point you require appealing
content: pictures, texts, graphics, and videos do not simply include an incentive for the client
and reader, they are likewise positively enlisted via web search tools.
Despite that, maintaining and keeping up great content implies continually revising it;
updating, publishing, plus managing content in a connecting way. Maintaining and keeping
up greater sites is a mammoth assignment that would barely be practical without the
utilization of a CMS.
Top Ten CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:
1. WordPress:

WordPress controls a lot of non-blog sites, comprising everything from straightforward


multi-webpage brochure or handout style websites straight up to full-fledged and undeniable
social networks

There are a huge number of themes accessible for WordPress, just as a great many widgets
and plugins to broaden its functionality and usefulness. WordPress likewise has an
unimaginably active community network encompassing it, which means it is simple to
discover information or tutorials about almost every part of evolving for WP. Through
custom themes and plugins, you could transform WP into an informal social network, e-
commerce webpage, forum, and a whole lot more.

Benefits:

 Huge web developer network with a lot of tutorials and documentation


accessible.
 The dashboard is user-friendly in order to manage the content.
 Paid and free plugins and specific themes make it conceivable to make
practically any type of website alongside WordPress.

Drawbacks:

 Could be overkill and needless excess for essential websites.


 A standard installation could have a ton of security problems, plus is entirely
helpless against attack deprived of extra safety efforts.
 No authorized support outside of client forums and discussions, where you might
possibly get an official reaction.
2. WIX:

Wix CMS is a free site building stage that works somewhat better from different CMSs.
Since it is a design-driven website, it is not considered a ‘pure’ content management system,
even though it has applications and components that function and work as a feature of a
CMS.

Whereas the free edition does not enable you to utilize a custom domain, and the platform
gets its repute from its convenience, great formats intended for small companies plus creative
experts as well as building a stunningly interactive site deprived of having to know any of the
code.

Benefits:

 Over 500 amazing templates, you could customize. All of the designs are
completely responsive plus written and composed in HTML5.
 Easy back-end, alongside full access to every one of the tools you have to
construct a successful site.
 Over 200 applications alongside a wide variety of features that could be included
to the site. The greater parts of these are free or even have a lite edition, while
others need regularly scheduled payments that differ in costs.
Drawbacks:

 No blogging application through Wix, you will have to install and introduce a


third party application, which could be a tremendous problem for genuine bloggers.
 The free of cost subscription of the site accompanies Wix advertisements plus no
approach to internet business devices. In any case, costs could shift from 4 dollars
to 16 dollars per month, contingent upon whether you are associating your very
own domain, using the unlimited highlights and web-based business.
3. JOOMLA:

Joomla is utilized by some exceptionally well-known organizations as the CMS for their
sites, comprising IHOP, Harvard University, and MTV. It is appropriate for back-end
systems, as well, and is utilized by Citibank for simply that reason.

Joomla has been utilized for the whole thing from inventory control frameworks to
reservation frameworks, to complex professional business directories, notwithstanding typical
sites.

Whereas there are a lot of themes out there right for Joomla, the quality for some does not
measure up to what is accessible for WordPress. There are some extraordinary themes,
accessible, however, in case you are willing to search for them.

Benefits:

 Client authentication should be possible alongside LDAP, Google, and OpenID,


amid others.
 Over 7000 extensions.
 The user community is extremely active and huge amounts of documentation
accessible.
Drawbacks:

 The back-end is not as easy to use as some CMSs; however, it is still entirely
usable.
 Absence of great quality themes once compared with some different CMSs.
 Could be overkill for basic and simple websites.
4. DRUPAL:

Drupal does one more famous CMS, utilized by various prominent organizations
comprise the Popular Science, New York Observer, Fast Company, Sony Music,
MIT, and others. It incorporates a lot of highlights for building external and internal
websites and a huge amount of tools for sorting out and organizing the content. There
are over 6,000 (“modules”) add-ons accessible for Drupal, making it simple to stretch
out Drupal’s functionality and usefulness to do pretty much anything you need. This
implies you could invest your energy concentrating on content and design, as opposed
to coding a lot of complicated highlights.

Benefits:

 Robust the community support, comprising IRC channels plus vis-à-vis meetups.
 Above 6,000 plugins or modules, making the Drupal exceptionally extensible.
 A huge number of organizations proposing commercial and business support for
Drupal.
Drawbacks:

 Could be overkill for basic websites.


 An absence of genuinely high quality free and commercial themes (there are a
few, yet not such a significant number as of there are for certain CMSs).
5. MAGENTO:

In the field of content management system platform, there are very little to make an internet
business webpage. Magento is among that open source content management system for
making an e-commerce web-based business website effectively and quickly. Thought the
network version comes free and open-source; however, you might require paying for opening
all the premium and excellent highlights. Yet, we could guarantee you that the essential and
free highlights which accompany Magento are very enough for building up a web-based
business website or a small blog.

Benefits:

 It is free and open-source.


 This supports the network and community.
 This is extremely scalable.
 Proposes adaptability in sorting and searching of items.

Drawbacks:

 Magento is progressively costly. With different CMS brands, you should pay less
each month. Since Magento proposes more advantages, it accompanies a cost.
 Furthermore, Magento CMS sets aside a more extended time and effort to create.
 Magento consist of a complex framework that will expect time to set up.
6. MODX

MODX is a free, open source content management system and web application
framework for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. MODX is
licensed under the GPL, is written in the PHP programming language, and supports
MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server as the database. 

Benefits:
 Quick Loading:
 Templating code is simple:
 SEO friendly:
 Easy for clients:
 Community support:

Drawbacks:
 User roles and Permission settings:
 Adding Installers to documents:
7. Silver Stripe:

Silverstripe CMS is a free and open source Content Management System and
Framework for creating and maintaining websites and web applications. It provides an
out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make
modifications to parts of the website, which includes a WYSIWYG website editor.

Benefits:
 Flexible for Developers
 Great CMS for non-developers:
 Small Community using it:
  Can handle small or large sites:
 Has an MVC type structure:
 Is Open Source

Drawbacks:
 Small Community using it:
 Sometimes help can be hard to find:
 Can be a steep learning curve for some:
 TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor (complicated for audience to understand)
8. Confluence:

Confluence is an open and shared workspace that connects people to the ideas and
information they need to build momentum and do their best work. Unlike document
and file-sharing tools, Confluence is open and collaborative, helping you create,
manage, and collaborate on anything from product launch plans to marketing
campaigns. Find work easily with dedicated and organized spaces, connect across
teams, and integrate seamlessly with the Atlassian suite or customize with apps from
our Marketplace.

Benefits:
 Great support out there since its widely used.
 Very customizable with themes and color combinations.
 Collaborative editing options.
 A plethora of add-ons to customize your experience.

Drawbacks:
 Migrations of data can be difficult.
 Backup service breaks so you're better off manually backing up.
 The log-analyzer can sometimes treat symptoms, but may not see the root cause to a
problem with the system.
9. UMBRACO

Creating and updating your website should be the least of your worries. With
Umbraco, you get a content management system known and loved for its flexibility
and great editing experience. Use the open source version of Umbraco for free and
install, setup, and host it yourself or let us take care of it all for you on Umbraco
Cloud.  It is written in C# and deployed on Microsoft based infrastructure. Since
version 4.5, the whole system has been available under an MIT License.

Benefits:

 Umbraco has a lot of design/layout flexibility.

 Umbraco provides a lot of control for customization.

 You can maintain your data (product, page, entity) in a structured way.

Drawbacks:

 Umbraco seems to change their site URLs often enough

 The update process is clumsy at best

 Umbraco isn't stable


10. KENTICO CMS:

Kentico is the only fully integrated ASP.NET CMS, E-commerce, and Online Marketing
platform that allows you to create truly optimized digital customer experiences across
multiple channels. With Web Farms, Continuous Integration, GDPR and Data Protection, and
MVC development fully supported across the platform, Kentico empowers your developers
to deliver state-of-art websites and experiences faster.

Benefits:

 Easy to use
 Intuitive
 Adaptable

Drawbacks:

 Price
 More 'drag and drop'
 No better analytics

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