Open Source Content Management
Who would not like a CMS that is light i.e. simple to manage for oneself or the other people who would use it and more importantly, your clients! And, if the CMS is an open-source, it becomes an even more desirable to have it! Here are some of the options you could consider for getting an open source CMS, as per your needs, preferences and convenience –
Get simple – It comes loaded with features that almost all the websites would need. It boasts of having the best UI in its class and it uses the convenience and speed of that of XML. It is also known to be very simple to learn.
Frog – This CMS offers a simplified content management with its neat user interface, flexibility in applying templates across pages and simplicity in user permissions and management as also in file management tools. It is unique owing to the simplicity it offers in templating code and since it directly uses PHIP, you do not need to know any other scripting language.
Requirements – PHP5, SQLite 3 with PDO or a MySQL database, a web server.
Symphony – It is known to leverage open standards such as XML, XSLT and also the old XHTML, CSS. The interface for the admin makes use of the largely in use, iQuery library, which makes it unnecessary for the extension developers to learn new framework while trying to extend back end.
Stacey – Known to be extremely light CMS, It does not need any database setup, not even installation files! You simply have to drop this application on the server to make it function. You can manage the content by simply creating folders, editing the text files. There are no screens for a login or even admin interface. It keeps all the content with the help of text files, which are flat and folders, unlike the traditional database. Thus, installation becomes so simple that you just have to copy application files to the server. So, no installation files, no setting up of a database and it works on a standard PHP server.
Radiant – Again an open source, it is designed especially for smaller teams and has been kept very simple. The admin interface is very elegant with its focus around 3 important components – layouts, snippets and pages. It has its own macro language, which is known as Radius, enabling the ease of including other pages’ content.
Pixie – It is not meant to compete out with the other open source CMSs out there. The goal of Pixie is to be so simple so as to enable even a layman to use and benefit from it, which is what sets it apart from the other options listed above. It makes use of the latest standards in the web world and so; the site you build through this tool can be accessed by all of your visitors and is also friendly with the search engine. You would also be happy to know that you just need to know CSS for customizing your site.
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