Content Management Software Solutions

Content Management Software provides community building through blogging, personalization, forums and message boards. It helps build customer loyalty with subscriptions and RSS feeds. It allows you to easily manage lots of content from multiple authors.

 

How do you decide what CMS software to use for the management of your web site content? What CMS authoring tools should you use? Here are a few of the different content management solutions avaialble:

 

Open Source

This is probably the most popular because it is free to obtain, has lots of flexibility plus there is a very active Open Source Community for support.

 

Hosted

You have less control because the business selling the software hosts and maintains the CMS. This frees you from administrative responsibilities and reduces the initial cost but may cost you more in the long term.

 

Commercial

A commercial CMS designer builds the CMS application then sells it to you. You will be responsible for the maintenance. You have more control but your initial costs will be expensive because it is custom built.

 

Nonprofit

Some CMS sites are built for nonprofit companies sometimes. These types may be hosted or commercial. The features built into them are geared towards the organization.

 

Summary

Your choice of content management software solution will depend greatly on your own individual circumstances. If you are tech savy and have some free spare time, you may like to opt for on open source solution. If you have a medium sized website and are a little pressed for time, then maybe a hosted solution is best for you. On the other hand, if you have a complex and large e-commerce site, a commercial solution is probably the best way to go.