Empowering Web Designers WorldwideWhat is CMS Hosting?
Content Management Systems (CMSs) are designed to help you and your communities easily publish, manage and organize a variety of content and create a news-based web portal ( not necessarily news). CMS’s allow end-users (authors) to provide new information to the website in the form of articles. CMS’s have a concept of the workflow for the target users, which defines how the new content is to be routed around the system.
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What exactly does a CMS do?
A CMS provides capabilities for multiple users with different permission levels to manage (all or a section of) content, data or information of a website project, or internet/intranet application.
Managing content refers to creating, editing, archiving ,publishing, collaborating, reporting and distributing website content, data and information.
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Open-source content management systems like WordPress and Drupal get a lot of attention on design blogs and developer forums, but they are not the only options when it comes to choosing a CMS. Some hosted CMSs allow designers the opportunity for a private label, meaning that designers can brand the CMS as their own.
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There are a number of hosted CMS tools available that are popular with designers and their clients.
Lets take a quick look at some of these platforms:
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1. Joomla – An award winning CMS platform
Joomla! is one of the best and most widely used CMS applications. It is suitable for creating corporate websites or intranets, online magazines, community-based portals and more. It has numerous built-in features as well as a large selection of extra modules and components which will enhance the value of your website and enrich your visitors’ experience.
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2. WordPress – It’s not just a blog, but an all-in-one web publishing platform
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world. Because of its popularity and enormous following, it has evolved a lot since its original incarnation, and now you can use it for managing a complex content-driven website.
WordPress can handle multiple authors, specialized content types, and pretty much anything a user would expect from a CMS.
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3. Drupal
With Drupal you can easily build many different types of web pages – from simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal’s design is not as fancy as that of Joomla!, but it is very easy to customize, has built-in search capability and has search-engine friendly URL’s as an extra module. Additionally it has discussion capabilities and has a classic news aggregator function.
Drupal can do almost anything. Drupal was designed to get new features by using tons of little modules.
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4. Typo3
TYPO3 is suitable for enterprise websites and for intranets. There is a flexible basic Typo3 installation that can be extended through extra ready-made modules and interfaces. The design of TYPO3 is template-based and the webmaster can create own templates using the configuration language TypoScript.
In Typo3, HTML templates are what the name says, pure HTML with markers for different content elements. So creating a template is pretty straightforward even for people with no coding experience.
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BigRock offers you comprehensive CMS Hosting which is compatible with Perl, Python, PHP v5 and includes Unlimited MySQL Databases. Some of the key features are –
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