When to choose an open source CMS
EVERYBODY’S DOING IT We learned in our last post that more than 60 per cent of the world’s websites are hosted on WordPress, Joomla or Drupal. This week we’ll touch on the reasons why. The first reason is that most people don’t know there is a simpler, safer and more affordable content management solution available to them yet, but more about that later. INITIAL SET-UP Although choosing a content management system (CMS), depends on your organization’s individual needs, committing to open source software (OSS) (we’ll use WordPress as an example) is viewed by most as a ‘no brainer’, because, free set-up = unlimited time to test the platform in a natural environment without feeling pressure to buy. Small businesses and organizations with minimal resources, like not-for-profits, are most likely to benefit from a free-at-first system, initially. However, as business needs expand, so does the need for the predictable costs, technical support, and seamless integrations. APPLICATIONS To that p...