Some Open Source CMS Options
compared to Non open source
| Features
|
WordPress
open source |
Joomla
open source |
Vistaprint | Successful Websites | |
| Open CMS | yes | yes | |||
| Videos | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Simple shop | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Complex shop | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Contact Management | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Autoresponders | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Newsletter | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Members | yes | yes | |||
| Affiliate | yes | yes | |||
| Events Manager | yes | yes | |||
| Website Stats | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Customer Support | forums | forums | phone | ||
| Accounting | |||||
| Live Video | |||||
| Downloadable Products | yes | yes | |||
| Sales Reports | |||||
| Hosting included | yes |
yes | |||
| Inbuilt domain registration | yes | ||||
| Cost Per Year | Free | Free | $84-$497 | $840 ($70/m) |
Free sites or open source cms require you to buy your own Domain Name and to Host the site somewhere. This can be as little as $60 a year.
4 Tips on choosing the best CMS for you
1. Think about what you want your website to do now and in the future? Choose a cms management that allows this.
2. Is it a new website and you are unsure if it will be successful or an established successful site?
3. Consider setting up on a free simple cms management system and when the website is successful then change to fully integrated website content management software.
4. Go into each system and have a free trial of the cms web design, ecommerce cms and templates to see what you like. Some systems are very text based and some are picture based. So if you are very visual you will then Vistaprint may be a good place to start.
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