The Best Open Source Solutions

Websites, now, have become an integral of businesses all around the world. In order to succeed in the cut throat competitive tech era, it is very important for businesses to have well structured websites. Managing content of websites is not an easy task, especially for complex websites. Open source content management systems like Drupal and Joomla have proved to be a blessing for the web industry. A CMS is used for organizing, categorizing, and structuring of information resources (text, images, documents etc.) so that they can be stored, published, and edited with easily.

One such content management system which has made its niche, is Drupal. If one is looking for a quick and easy web development, then Drupal CMS Development is the ultimate solution. Drupal was originally written by Dries Buytaert. It is written in Php and is distributed under the General Public License. Drupal offers enhanced SEO capabilities and can be used for creating forums, blogs, websites and social networking platforms. Also, it is highly flexible in its configuration. 

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx and a database such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB or Microsoft SQL Server to store content and settings. Drupal 6 requires PHP 4.4.0+ while Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.

Web developers across the world have acknowledged the well designed code of Drupal. This makes it highly efficient, robust and trustworthy. Another benefit which Drupal offers is less programming efforts than other CMS. One can easily add new features and reshape a Drupal based website from a simple presentation website to a web application. Also, it has a solid templating system. Drupal based websites are extremely user friendly as well as browser compatible.

There is another CMS which has also won the hearts of developers across the globe. It is none other than Joomla. This is also an open source CMS which offers customized features. Joomla is an award winning CMS. If one wants to build a dynamic and interactive corporate website, then Joomla is the answer to your problems. 

Joomla! is written in PHP and uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques. It stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. It also comprises a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can be used independently.

It is suitable for both large and small organizations. Joomla has excellent advanced functionalities. It has various plug-ins which allow you to add shopping carts, image galleries, videos, bulletin boards and various other features.

And last but not the least, WordPress is another world renowed open source CMS. It is widely used as a blogging tool. WordPress has brilliant features like plug-in architecture and template system. It allows users to re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code. One can also install and switch between themes. The best thing about WordPress Development is that one need not be tech savvy to use it.

When it comes to optimizing the search engine results, WordPress makes this job easier. It increases your website's chances of landing on the first page of Google results.

 Open Source CMS solutions have been a dream come true for the web community across the planet.