Content Management System - CMS

CMS is the short name of Content Management System. It is a new technology for company's information construction and electronic government. CMS has many outstanding designs based on template, which can accelerate the pace of web development and reduce development costs. In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything - documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation.

There are mainly three kinds of CMS: Enterprise CMS, Web CMS, and Component CMS.

An Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) is concerned with content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose and result is to manage the organization's unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location. A Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices, in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. Using a Component Content Management System (CCMS), content is stored and managed at the subdocument (or component) level for greater content reuse.

Joomla

Typo3

Drupal

WordPress

Joomla

Joomla is a free and open source content management system for publishing content on the Web and intranets. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

The name comes from the African Swahili dialect "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole". It can enrich the contents of website when plug-in components are used.

Mambo software was early developed in 2001 by Micro Corporation. The original released software version using GNU/GPL license was no longer supported after version 3.0.5, since some commercial considerations for Micro Corporation. Later Robert Castley took over the project and employed new workers. Mambo awarded Best Linux or Open Source Software provided by Linux User & Developer Award 2004. From then on, it was highly regarded. Because of the disagreement between developers and corporation, the group leader, Eddie Andrew, formed a new project – Joomla. And the Joomla almost has no differences with Mambo.

Joomla has many great features. It applies many new technologies of website. The additional packages and graphic designs from thousands of different global sites are developed all based on this system. Besides, users can easily use it. Joomla has the large number of users all over the world.

Successful Story: E-commerce Website Joomla

Typo3

Typo3 is open source software of Content Management System. It is a small to midsize enterprise-class CMS offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accommodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension.

Typo3 is based on PHP4/PHP5 with MYSQL DB. It can also run in other DB such as Oracle, MS-SQL, ODBC. For authors, Typo3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages using sophisticated functions in a few mouse clicks.

Typo3 development was started from scratch by Kasper in 1997. 3 prototype versions were developed in early 1998. After months of intensive development, Typo3 was demonstrated as an industrial strength example of web content management. Now Typo3 is developed to version 4.3.2.

Typo3 has amount of features both built into the system core and added by installing third-party extensions that are freely available in the Typo3 extension repository. You can scan them in the official website. Since this, it becomes a very complicated framework which will cost you several months to learn to use.

Whether you are looking to manage content in a large corporation, university, non-profit organization or a small business, Typo3 can provide you with an enterprise-level solution that meets your needs. You no longer need to settle for an expensive proprietary CMS with very little features. Instead, Typo3 can offer you the best feature of all.

Successful Story: Migration of web to TYPO3 CMS Development

Drupal

Drupal, born in 2000, is an open source CMS based on PHP, which is used for developing website. Actually, Drupal is a large PHP library. Because it is open source, the code of Drupal has a high level in security. That is why many governments and organizations, such as White House, US Department of Commerce, the New York Times, use Drupal to establish websites.

The standard release of Drupal contains basic features nearly same as other CMSs, including user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS-feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.

Drupal core contains the basic functions of Drupal, which can be extended by third-party contributions. It includes core modules which can be enabled by the administrator to extend the functionality of the core website, and provides a series of features. It also includes selectable themes, which customize the aesthetic “look and feel” of the site.

Drupal core is designed to be modular with a system of hooks and callbacks, which are accessed internally through an API. This design allows third-party contributed modules and themes to extend or override Drupal's default behaviors without changing Drupal core's code. Contributed Drupal modules offer a variety of features including image galleries, custom content types and content listings, WYSIWYG editors, private messaging, third-party integration tools, and more.

Successful Story: Web Development with Drupal

WordPress

WordPress is an open source CMS built by PHP and MySQL. It is often used as a blog publishing application. WordPress is one of the most popular CMS in the world, having 12% of the all users.

WordPress plug-in architecture allows developers and users to extend its functions. And it has a template system which includes small parts as well as themes that can be edited without changing PHP or HTML code. WordPress can also manage integrated link; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles are also included. It can display links to other sites which link themselves to a post or article using Trackback and Pingback standards.

Native applications provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch, and BlackBerry.

After WordPress 3.0 has been developed, the developers updated the WordPress blog to notice the community that the team will temporarily stop developing the WordPress software to focus on expanding and improving the WordPress community.

Successful Story: Chinese School Website Built With DedeCMS