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CMS = Content Management System

A "CMS" is a program with forms and online programs to build your website. You install it on your website server.

The popular CMS programs these days are Joomla, Mambo, and Drupal.

The good side of a CMS program is that it makes it very easy to make your web pages. You don't have to edit html and keep track of directories etc. On the other side, you have to learn the CMS program, which is just as complicated as learning PhotoShop or Word. And *somebody* has to know more technical things, to install it, do backups, and other administration.

Which CMS is "best"? ... it depends on what you want to do!

Links to general information are here. Links to details of different CMSs are in their section.

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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/ 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 : 2006

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

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

One way in which Habari absolutely slaughters WordPress http://asymptomatic.net/2008/09/09/2751/one-way-in-which-habari-absolutely-slaug hters-wordpress#comment-262548 "WordPress is released under the GNU General Public License. In the license, it very plainly states: 'You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. The only conclusion is that if your theme executes functions that are provided by WordPress, then your theme is indelibly connected to WordPress, and must itself be made available under the same terms as WordPress.' Of course, the howling cries of designers begin here. ..." Habari : September 2008

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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