Jun 22, 2012

10 Powerful CMS Tools for Blogging

When it comes to choosing the best content management system for developing your blog, the options are abundant. While dealing with some of them calls for technical expertise, others are a bit more user-friendly as they are simpl to use, extend and install. Finding just the right CMS depends on several factors such as the language with which it is built, its level of development and most importantly on who is going to use it i.e. the user’s level of technical expertise. 

WordPress
This is by far the most popular semantic platform for publishing. With an extensive range of themes and plugins, WordPress installs at a very high speed and automatically updates plugins and the core.  Even if you are not very much familiar with HTML, you need not be troubled as WordPress Development provides you with a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. It is designed so efficiently that even a new user will not require much time to learn the functions. WordPress is also presented with an integral image uploading support. 

Drupal
Open source CMS software Drupal, sustains over 600 thousand developers and users. It is easy to use, free and compatible with all the major operating systems. With its taxonomy module, content can be structured and organized in a very simple manner. It also links your website to social networking and various other sites throughout the web.

Joomla
Joomla is like Drupal in a way that it is entirely a CMS. It has advanced functionality and has a very basic installer. Its admin interface provided with remarkable features such as spontaneous drop-down menus deserves mention. 


ExpressionEngine
It is a simple and flexible CMS with the layout created in such a way that it can be learnt in no time. You can create multiple websites by installing software only once. ExpressionEngine is not free and is priced separately for its personal and commercial license.

Textpattern
Marked by its style and small code base, Textpattern creates well-structured pages. It comes with textile markup for creating HTML elements in a page and due to lack of redundant codes, creates fast loading pages.

Radiant CMS
Unlike the above mentioned CMS tools which use PHP, Radiant uses another very popular web development language, Ruby. It shares some common attributes with Textpattern. Both of them have minimal code bases and generate fast loading pages. Even though, Radiant relies on Textile markup for HTML creation, it has its own language named Radius.

Cushy CMS
Cushy as the name implies is very easy to deal with. It does not require installing and upgrading software and is a hosted CMS which can be installed and used even by someone who is not a skilled programmer. It produces content which complies with the standard and is SEO friendly. With Cushy, editing content is fun. Also, it is free and does not depend on any particular language.


SilverStripe
Assembled on Saphire, its own Hypertext Preprocessor framework, SilverStripe facilitates designing with a templating language unique to it. Resembling Drupal and Joomla, it is more of a complete CMS. A major advantage of SilverStripe is that its admin interface can be tailored by designers and developers as per their clients’ requirements.

Alfresco
With Alfresco, files can easily be dropped into folders which can be converted to web documents. It requires a bit of skilled handling and might just not be the perfect choice for beginners but the backend is neatly designed.

TYPOlight
Some of TYPOlight’s unique modules consist of calendars and newsletters. Managing this requires bit of a technical knowledge and its superior functionality can be compared to that of ExpressionEngine and Drupal.

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