Just like other business software, when developers saw the need for CMS web software, then they compete to provide the best features of a web CMS product. Then came the two camps web CMS, which paid and open source, which was developed by a gang developers who are interested in the Web CMS.
Several categories CMS web software discussed here is the portal category (which is the CMS web categories with largest number), e-commerce, forums / bulletin boards, and CMS Management Learning.
Joomla!
Developer: Joomla! Team
License: GNU GPL
Website: www.joomla.org
Joomla! categorized as a portal to handle various kinds of content, ranging from simple text, photos, music, video, or document. As written in the official website, the main advantage in using a CMS (Joomla!) Is that you can manage all the content in a web form, with almost no technical skills required and knowledge of web programming. Some real applications of what can Jommla! governance is the corporate website or portals, magazines, newspapers or online publications, e-commerce, web sites for small businesses, the site for non-profit organizations, personal homepage or a family.
With the support of developers around the world, currently Jommla! has more than 3000 extensions (or plugins), modules and components that create a web standard Joomla! have additional functions, such as backup website, translate content, display a calendar, add Google AdSense code, and so on.
Some popular sites that use Joomla! as a web portal is a green search engine portal that addresses the www.GreenMaven.com, IHOP (restaurant chain) the address at www.ihop.com, Faculty of Economics in www.fe.ui.ac.id UI, and design of furniture Senso address in www.sensointeriors.co.za.
Drupal
Developer: Drupal Community
License: GNU GPL
Website: www.drupal.org
Drupal is a CMS website which first won the "Best Open Source PHP CMS" organized by the CMS Award in 2009. While Joomla! and Wordpress have to share the runner-up position. However, according to some novice users, Drupal was too difficult because they have the concepts and terminology that specifically applies only to Drupal. For example, in Drupal Node known. Node is a unit of content that can be blogs, forum topics, news, static pages, images, video, audio and flash. Drupal Taxonomy term refers to the content categories, such as the unit of content can be published Politics, Economics, Science, or Religion. Hook the term is a term which may be barely noticed by the user as usual. Hook on Drupal is an important concept for developers, which is a method so that each module can add specific functions. Additions made by tying the hook function is owned by Drupal system. Each module can add new menu in a way defines modul_menu function, which will ensure that Drupal not forget to take into account the existence of the menu when necessary.
Site created by Drupal and the hits are enough visitors and www.seobook.com, www.ubuntu.com. What's interesting is the month of October 2009, the system of administration of the President of the United States, Barrack Obama adopted Drupal as the official site of the white building, which address www.whitehouse.gov.
phpBB
Developer: phpBB Groups
License: GNU GPL
Website: www.phpbb.com
Since created in 2000, phpBB Web CMS developed into a bulletin board with categories of the most widely used for the board on the Internet. Initially, one named James Atkinson hobist bulletin boards to develop a personal website. Some of his friends later joined forces to develop, and begin to release its first version through www.SourceForge.net.
Currently, the version of phpBB is the most stable phpBB 3, with the main features of the modular design in the admin control panel, control panel moderator and user control panel, support multiple DBMS (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite), possible level subforum without limitation, and the ability to create custom-defined BBCode. phpBB MOD knew the term, namely modifications to the code created by phpBB community as an extension of the functions of the standard phpBB. PhpBB MOD Team received a modified version of the community for validation, and modifications that meet the standards MOD team will be made available for download from the PHP MOD Database.
osCommerce
Developer: Harald Ponce de Leon
License: GNU GPL
Website: www.osCommerce.com
As the name implies, osCommerce is a web CMS in the category of eCommerce or shopping online. Its history begins in 2000, Harald Ponce de Leon, a German start developing osCommerce application. As one of the oldest eCommerce CMS, osCommerce popularity rapidly increased. Recorded in the year 2008, there were 14,000 sites that use Oscommerce as online shopping sites. Currently, according to the official website osCommerce, at least 224,800 small business owners and middle osCommerce for their eCommerce site. ECommerce website development solutions are simple and easy that osCommerce makes many small or medium-sized businesses entrust their sales site to osCommerce.
The key to success of osCommerce is easy and fulfillment for online business. Some of the features that make osCommerce, eligible to serve as online shopping site is ease of installation, the number and categories of products that are not limited to, multi-currency support, support for Secure transaction with SSL (Secure Socket Layer), the function of a complete tax calculations, and backup capabilities restore the data, enabling delivery options such as by weight, price or goals and compatibility with popular browsers.
Several competitors from osCommerce as a web CMS eCommerce Uncategorized which also uses PHP and MySQL as a development foundation is ZenCart and OpenCart.
Some who live shop osCommerce Google Store is selling various knick-knacks Google www.google-store.com, Unimall which sells computer equipment and software www.unimall.de. In Indonesia alone there are several online stores using osCommerce, which sells medical equipment various www.alatkesehatan.com medical devices, and Garuda Sakti which sell a variety of hardware www.garudasakti.com.
Moodle
Developer: Martin Dougiamas
License: GNU GPL
Website: www.moodle.org
Moodle is an extension of the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, and specializes in web CMS E-Learning category, or also known as the Virtual Learning Environment. Moodle is quite popular in academic circles with statistics per Month in March 2009, 52,153 registered sites with 30,176,528 Moodle site use, and teaching materials 2,770,832 (courses).
Moodle is designed for educators create teaching materials online with a wide variety of interactions between educators with learners. Packed in open source systems and modular design, Moodle is easy to be developed, and added functionality as needed.
Learning approach Moodle is provided paedagogi approach. The emphasis is on aspects that students are not passively accept the teaching materials, but can contribute to the learning experience. Even allowing for comment on the existing teaching materials (or the contribution of educational materials), as well as Wiki.
Founder of www.ilmukomputer.com, Romy Satrio Wahono, using Moodle as a form of learning in the eUniversity also founded. EUniversity site address is there in www.university.romisatriawahono.net/. Some learning materials in it, including Object-Oriented Programming, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Web Programming, Game Design and Development, and so on.
Closing
Often, just by reading reviews on the web CMS, not enough to really know the quality of the CMS website. Always perform a web CMS to download and install on your computer is not a practical way. There is a website specifically to accommodate all web CMS from various categories, and the best thing is that all existing web CMS on this web demo version is available for both front-end and back-end (admin pages). We can try to make dummy data on the admin page, and see how they impact on front-end directly.
The web address is in the www.opensourcecms.com/. As the name implies, all the existing web CMS on this website are open source. As for the commercial web CMS, there are at www.commercialcms.com/. Both these sites can live because for web developers who want to introduce CMS Web CMS made, they may upload to this website, and then visitors can try out. Practically, the two sites is the best site to know and try a web CMS before deciding to download (or buy for commercial web CMS), and install on your computer or web server.
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