Monday, April 27, 2009

Selecting a Content Management System (CMS)

Selecting a Content Management System (of a Web CMS, if you like! - is not everything in the web now?), though not a difficult task, it is not a cake-walk either considering the plethora of choices available in the market. Before you go for selecting a CMS, you need to ask yourself a set of questions.

Like in our case, it was to build a website as Yahoo! truly could not match to its reputation of a good provider and techno company, in this space.

Our case was to build a website. And we asked ourselves these questions:


1. How quickly we want to build and host a website?

2. How much investment (time, cost, resource) we want to have on this website (up, running, and running!)?

3. What is learning curve? (for us, shorter the better)

4. What are the features being provided in the CMS? (we wanted payment, calendar, news, blogs at minimal)

5. If someone has to debug, does the person has to be a top notch debugger? (I did not want that as technology has advanced much now in website building)

6. Do we need a great programmer to make some new changes?

7. To what extent, the hierarchy goes? (1 level or nth level)

8. How easy is the code to read and maintain? (the generated ones)

9. Which one provides more flexibility in terms of various plugins and other software support?

10. Which one of them is the market leader so that it will help us later on in bidding on CMS?

11. And of course, finally what is the initial cost and time of doing it?



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There are many in the market, who provide CMS and we zeroed in on 3 of them:[v.i.z] Joomla!, Plone and Prudal. Wordpress is good, but I still count it more of a blogging platform than a CMS.

Joomla! did really score well in many front. It is easy to build, host, make changes, code changes, ease of learning etc.

Idealware rates Joomla! as the market leader in CMS category. And we tend to agree as well.


Data Credit - Idealware

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