links - cms

The CMSs

• Drupal home   http://drupal.org/ "Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes. Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites." Sites made in drupal: Tibetan Technology Center: tibtec.org Drupal : 2010
• Joomla at Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/joomla "Joomla! is a free, open source content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets using a MySQL database." wikipedia : 2006
• Joomla home   http://www.joomla.org/ "Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable." (from the home page) It looks the easiest to use for the end user. Word is that it is easy to install and maintain also. Joomla : 2006
• Moodle home   http://www.moodle.org/ Original developer's Moodle site, communities, courses and software moodle.org : 2006
• Moodle on Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle Summary and links for Moodle Wikipedia : july 2006
• Tiki Wiki   http://www.tikiwiki.org/ A full website system, with wiki, forum, pages, posts, calendar, and more more more. TikiWiki : 2010
• Wiki - MediaWiki home   http://www.mediawiki.org "A free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia." "MediaWiki is free server-based software, that is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scaleable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database. Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily." MediaWiki : 2007
• WordPress Home   http://wordpress.org/ Everything about WordPress WordPress : 2010
• WordPress on Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress Summary and links for WordPress Wikipedia : 2010

General info

• CMS Academy   http://www.cmsacademy.net/ Screencasts and audio. "The CMS Academy is an open source collaborative learning community for learning about content management systems." Site is part of WorldBridges, by our own Jeff Lebow. : 2006
• Content Management System   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system "A content management system is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is sometimes a web application used for managing websites and web content, ..." wikipedia : 2006
• Content Management Systems - SitePoint Forums   http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=266 Good discussions of all aspects of using CMSs SitePoint : 2008
• Content-Management Tools   http://www.networkcomputing.com/1111/1111buyers2.html This is old, but it is a very good general introduction to what is a CMS. Network Computing : 2000

Compare - systems

• Celebrity death match! Drupal vs. Wordpress vs. Joomla (and any others)   http://www.dnforum.com/f437/celebrity-death-match-drupal-vs-wordpress-vs-joomla- any-others-thread-306151.html Forum discussion, fun but not much useful details! DN Forum : June 2008
• CMS Compare: Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress   http://www.newlocalmedia.com the best comparison page i have seen. Practical and realistic. Dan Knauss : August 2008
• CMS Matrix   http://cmsmatrix.org/ This is almost too big to be useful! But it gives you an idea of how many cms systems are out there, and what people are looking for in a cms. "A community service to everyone interested in looking for a means to manage web site content. Discuss, rate, and compare the various systems available on the market today. Select different systems and compare." CMS Matrix : 2010
• CMS Review   http://www.cmsreview.com/ Feature lists, comparisons, and resources to help you select the right CMS. CMS Review : 2009
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best?   http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-vs-joomla-which-cms-is-best-004645.php And as always ... "there's still no cut and dried answer, and for that matter, we at CMSWire don't even believe in the question. If this survey proves anything, it's that the choice of Web CMS depends on what you're trying to do. Dee-Ann LeBlanc : May 2009
• How to evaluate a content management system   http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_evaluate/ This is a little old - but the principles are still good! James Robertson : 2002

Demos

• CMS demos   http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Great! do-yourself demos of many web apps, including cms systems. Look in left column for the choices. Open Source CMS : 2010

license issues

• Official legal opinion http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ "One-sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required." WordPress.org : 2009
• search WordPress GPL theme at Google http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+GPL+theme do the search google : 2010
• The Ethics of WordPress Themes at a Premium http://themeshaper.com/the-ethics-of-premium-wordpress-themes/ "Are WordPress Themes open source? Is it right to release them on a pay-to-download basis?" ThemeShaper.com : 2008

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