Content Management Systems (CMS)

Hi Matt, Ther must be several CMS but Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal are the best ones to deploy. Eachone has its own advantages and disadvantages. You need to review them all and decide to use one. I prefer Joomla. Couse you can find more and more templates. Wordpress is also fine but not that much colorful as Joomla. Content managing is a little bit difficult if you are not familiar to none of the above. Once you got the basics, then the rest should be free from pain for you. I mean how to enter content, how to put it under a category, how to create a category and furthermore, how to customize the templates according to your needs are key elements for running a proper CMS site. Well, I of course wasn't born with a CMS certificate :). Yes, their official sites carry pretty good "howto"s but most of the tricks I got were dedicated forum sites. Oh, lets don't forget server requirements also. You have to find a php (linux) host and be able to create at least one database under that host. Without a database file, forget CMSing. If your host supports it - 99% does (only if you choose the cheapest package, there may not be any database option), deploying a dummy CMS system is too easy. The rest is up to you. One last tip: When you're about to build one, do not upload all the files one by one to your server. Simply upload the zipped package prior to deploying, and use your host's unzip option while you are in the control panel of your site. Couse ready CMS templates contain thousands of files and this means thousand times opening and closing file transfer ports in your ftp program. Please send me your link if you run such a site.