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1 Content Management Systems Why to use. And, if you’re going to use one, which one???

2 Overview of Content Management Systems Comparison between popular open source CMS Getting Started Agenda The key agenda of this presentation is to provide brief information about popular open source content management system and compare them

3 Overview of Content Management Systems

4 An Content Management System (CMS) is a software for changing website content online. Usually changing, editing or archiving content such as text, pictures and in the good ones menus, navigation and page layouts Overview What is a Content Management System? Manage Diverse Content Satisfy Compliance Requirements Efficiently Manage Multiple Web SitesStreamline Business Processes CMS

5 By using a CMS you can edit your web site anywhere, anytime, through your web browser With a content management system, you can create interactive web sites and communicate with your visitors through on-line forms, newsletters, blogs, forums or polls You can also add a shopping cart in your website and sell your products on- line Overview Why should I use a CMS?

6 Drupal: It is a powerful, developer- friendly tool for building complex sites. Like most powerful tools, it requires some expertise and experience to operate. But very difficult for normal users to manage. Drupal JoomlaJoomla: It offers middle ground between the developer-oriented, extensive capabilities of Drupal and user-friendly but more complex site development options than WordPress offers. Also easy to extend at any level due to MVC Structure. WordPressWordPress: It began as an innovative, easy-to-use blogging platform. With an ever-increasing repertoire of themes, plug-ins and widgets, this CMS is widely used for other website formats also but mostly for blogs. Overview Brief info of Popular OpenSource CMS

7 Comparison Between Popular OpenSource CMS

8 Requires the most technical expertise of the three CMSs. However, it also is capable of producing the most advanced sites. With each release, it is becoming easier to use. If you’re unable to commit to learning the software or can’t hire someone who knows it, it may not be the best choice. Less complex than Drupal, more complex than WordPress. Relatively uncomplicated installation and setup. With a relatively small investment of effort into understanding Joomla’s structure and terminology, you have the ability to create fairly complex sites. Technical experience is not necessary; it’s intuitive and easy to get a simple site set up quickly. Overview Ease of Use

9 Known for its powerful taxonomy and ability to tag, categorize and organize complex content. Designed to perform as a community platform, with strong social networking features. Ease of use is a key benefit for experts and novices alike. It’s powerful enough for web developers or designers to efficiently build sites for clients; then, with minimal instruction, clients can take over the site management. Known for an extensive selection of themes. Also having large number of extension readily available for use. Very user-friendly with great support and tutorials, making it great for non-technical users to quickly deploy fairly simple sites. But not designed for complex website structures. Overview Features

10 For complex, advanced and versatile sites; for sites that require complex data organization; for community platform sites with multiple users; for online stores. Joomla allows you to build a site with more content and structure flexibility than WordPress offers, but still with fairly easy, intuitive usage. Supports E-commerce, social networking and more. Ideal for fairly simple web sites, such as everyday blogging and news sites; and anyone looking for an easy-to-manage site. Add- ons make it easy to expand the functionality of the site. Overview Best Use Case

11 TinyMCE or FCKEditor can be implemented to Drupal. There are lot of them. However the most convenient and good among free editors is JCE developed specially for Joomla. Usually WordPress uses TinyMCE (not full version) and simple text editor. Overview Versions/Security

12 A core is stable. Bugs in demanded modules usually get fixed operatively. But there loop holes which are getting resolved in later releases. Everything is fine with the availability of new Joomla versions. Security is also on the high level, you can consider 1.5.8 and 1.6 versions as very stable and secure. Not extensive as mostly WordPress used for simple websites. Overview Visual Editor

13 Inserting pictures is not included in a base package. It is possible to solve this problem in several ways, thru editors. It’s is ahead of other systems. There are 3 extensions types (components, modules and mambots). And each type of extensions can solve their types of tasks that actually allows you to add any new functionality without changing the “core”. Also there are lots of extension available. It is possible and convenient to add pictures to the editor in WordPress. It is possible to specify the file name and signature while loading at once. But still a bit difficult to manage. Overview Image Handling

14 SEO by default available with Drupal. SEO and meta data handling is default provided by Joomla. WordPress also allows SEO friendly URLs. Overview Search Engine Optimization Support

15 Overview Conclusion Ease of use4/107/108/10 Features9/10 8/10 Best Use Case7/108/107/10 Versions/Security6/108/107/10 Visual Editor7/108/106/10 Image Handling4/109/107/10 SEO Support7/108/107/10 Total (70)45/7057/7050/70

16 Getting Started

17 Average Setup and Customization Cost*: $5,000 - $50,000 Average Monthly Maintenance Cost*: $1,000 - $2,000 Average Setup and Customization Cost*: $2,000 - $20,000 Average Monthly Maintenance Cost*: $500 Average Setup and Customization Cost*: $250 - $15,000 Average Monthly Maintenance Cost*: $250 Getting Started Average Setup Cost and Maintenance * Depending on the level of customizations to the Core Modules or the design complexity

18 Contact US Softweb Solutions, Inc. 2531 Technology Drive, Suite 312 Elgin, IL - 60124, USA 224-293-4351 (Tel) 224-293-4358 (Tel) 866-345-SOFT (Toll-Free) 866-345-7638 (Fax) Web: www.softwebsolutions.comwww.softwebsolutions.com Email: info@softwebsolutions.cominfo@softwebsolutions.com

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