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What’s Hot: Free Content Management Systems

October 17, 2009 by

eVentures in Cyberland: Through the Web 2.0 Looking Glass, and What Communicators Found There was created using WordPress, a free open source content management system (CMS). A CMS is a software package that lets you build a website that non-technical people can quickly and easily (and therefore affordably) change and update. You could, for example, design a templates-based website like this one for as little as $1,000 (all in design, not writing, labor and assuming few rounds of design changes).

There are several reasons why I picked WordPress as my main publishing platform. WordPress has also been chosen as the publishing platform for many well known websites, such as People Magazine’s StyleWatch, Time Live Blogs, Reuters US Blogs, Larry King Live, The Ford Story, MTV Newsroom, ZDNet Technology, TV Tonight, and the Wall Street Journal magazine. These are all websites with a large number of pages, articles, images, and videos and obviously they have huge traffic demands with thousands of visitors per day. WordPress is not only able to satisfy these demands, but also do it in a usable and elegant way.

Joomla!, Drupal, and Plone are three other free open source CMSs that are very popular. Here’s a link to a PDF report providing a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Plone.



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About Monica

Monica specializes in strategic communications, web and new media, and print materials with an international or multi-cultural context. She has worked on national public outreach campaigns targeting multi-cultural audiences and has conceptualized, written, and/or designed multiple websites. Monica also has written, edited, and/or designed high-profile newsletters, brochures, and reports, including some prepared in collaboration with the White House. She holds a bachelor’s in journalism and a master of international service with a focus on international communication. Monica is based in Washington, D.C.

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