WordPress is the most popular open source content management system at the moment, powering an estimated 28% of all websites. It is based mostly on PHP, although a lot of interactive capabilities are provided by Java libraries. WordPress started as a blogging system, but there are more than 45000 plugins available to extend it’s capabilities…
Read More WordPressJoomla! CMS is the 2nd most popular content management system powering the internet according to some statistics, WordPress being the most popular, and Drupal the third. Like both competitors it is open source, PHP based, and requires a server (e.g. Apache), MySQL or MariaDB database, PHP and Perl. And similar to both it can be…
Read More Joomla! content management systemDrupal content management system is the third most popular content management system driving the Internet. It is considered to be technically the most brilliant but that is mostly due to behind the scenes technology. It is also considered to have enterprise level security. Under the Obama administration it was selected to power the White House…
Read More Drupal content management systemMediaWiki is probably best known through it’s use as software driving WikiPedia, the on line, collaborative ‘encyclopedia’. It is in fact a content management system, but focused very much on knowledge content and interlinking between bits of knowledge and less on flashy presentation with lots of images. There are various other implementation of the concepts…
Read More MediaWiki, DocuWiki and WikiPediaAlthough I don’t really understand why people might not want to try a user friendly Linux distribution, such as XUbuntu, LUbuntu, KUbuntu, Mint or Ubuntu on their own computer, the reality probably is that some people simply want to stick with Windows, share their computer with others within the same household and the partner may…
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