Best CMS for small businesses
By Ishita Ganguly
CMS or Content Management System is a boon for small business houses. They can easily manage their website without any sound technical knowledge on a CMS. Moreover, mainly because of the smaller budget, they cannot hire skilled HTML programmers to make their website and hence, CMS is a savior for small and mid-level companies. They can upload, edit, manage, and format their content according to their wish on CMS.
CMS can be of various types. Some CMSs are free while some need registration formality, some are written on .NET platform, while some are written on open PHP framework, some are complicated for the beginners while some are extremely user-friendly. For small businesses, you need a free, open source, and user-friendly CMS. Apart from these three factors, there is another thing to consider before investing your time, effort, and money on a CMS. The fourth factor is stability of a CMS, which only comes with a strong community to support end number of users.
Given below are the best CMS for small businesses:
Joomla: Joomla is the most popular CMS among smaller businesses these days. It is a free and open source CMS. Joomla developers (PHP) support the software with various add-ons, which are downloadable with a certain fee. Joomla keeps a database of your contents that make you manage and update every piece of content in your website. In case of any issue, just contact Joomla community and they will provide immediate fixes for the same.
CMS MadeSimple: The USP of this CMS is its light weight. It is very easy to set up and for this reason; it is extremely helpful to build a site within a time constraint. The CMS is flexible and at the same time secure with a strong user interface. Coupled with a web-based admin, this CMS has a number of plug-ins.
GL Fusion: Supported by plethora of features like CAPTCHA support, MooTools AJAX support, forums, calendar, media gallery management tool, this CMS is accessible by screen readers. Developed in PHP, it is easy to setup. This SEO friendly CMS comes with a number of user-friendly plug-ins like spam protection, poll, RSS feeds etc.
Etomite: With this CMS, the end users can manage all aspects of his website and this makes the website extremely user friendly as well as SEO friendly. Utilization of AJAX is one of the main features of this content management system. You can make use of AJAX through the editor of your website, without any knowledge of AJAX.
Impress CMS: This CMS supported by a strong community is getting huge popularity for its user-friendliness. In 2008, it has won the award for most promising CMS. Though, it offers less number of plug-ins, compared to the aforementioned CMSs, it comes with great usability, flexibility, and security.
What are the other CMSs that can work out great for your small-scale business or a start-up? Which one can make it easier working on different aspects of the CMS? For all and more information, visit http://www.evontech.com/business-identity-portals-using-cms.html
About the author, Ishita Ganguly -
Ishita Ganguly is a technology expert, working as a freelance technical writer with Evon Technologies. She has written on numerous technical domains, emerging technologies, and latest industry practices. Presently she is putting in effort to write for people having no or less technical knowledge, and introduce them to various software technologies and benefits of outsourcing.
(Published 5/11/2011, )
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