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Blogging CMS

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Blogging is one of the hottest trends on the Internet and there are millions of people that are doing so as well. It is made easy with the availability of several blogging membership sites as well as a number of blogging content management systems (CMS).

Below are some of the many CMS that are available on the Internet.

  1. Wordpress – Wordpress is a name most bloggers have heard of. It is one of the most famous blogging CMS on the Internet. Wordpress or WP for short offers a lot of themes as well as plugins for the users making it a very versatile CMS capable of running more than just blogs. In fact, there are galleries as well as news site being run by this CMS as well.
  2. Movable Type – Movable Type is also an open source CMS. Unlike Wordpress that runs on PHP, Wordpress was made using the Perl language instead. So, users wanting to use Movable Type should have a web server capable of executing CGI scripts. The CMS also has a lot of plugins available for the users.
  3. LifeType – This open source blogging CMS supports multiple blogs as well as users making it an efficient solution to those having more than one blog. It also has an extensive list of features worth looking at.
  4. Joomla – A famous CMS that can be used to create almost any type of sites. Joomla is an extremely versatile CMS and is used by millions of users worldwide. There are thousands of themes available whether it may be for blogs or for any other purposes.
  5. Nucleus CMS – This is a rather light solution for those not wanting to have a lot of applications in their blogs. Nonetheless, Nucleus CMS is a powerful content management system with a lot of themes and plugins for the users to use.

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My Experience With WordPress

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

When I started as a blogger, I found it quite difficult to pick the platform for my Calcio blog. With a plethora of options available, it made me quite confused on choosing the one that would add simplicity in navigation for the viewers, and also add to its looks.

After going through a number of reviews from experts, I decided to opt for WordPress for my Serie A blog. Following one year of success on WordPress, I can surely say that I made the right decision.

There were certain features that made life quite easy for me with WP (WordPress):

Themes

When it comes to availability of affordable yet quality themes on the web, there is nothing compared to WordPress. I found a lot of magazine themes, which would have been perfect for the subject of my website. It took me a long time to come up with the 3-column Sports News Theme for my site, but the easy navigation feature in the theme has been one of the reasons why my website has a high Alexa Ranking.

Plugins

I had lots of plans for promotions of my blog and its visibility on the web. Due to the large amount of plugins available for WordPress, it became easier for me to get everything that I was looking for.

The wonderful All-In-One SEO pack made it easy for me to rank high on search engines. Apart from that, I also installed a number of other plugins for my website, which included the Social Networking Tool, Sitemap, Custom Permalinks, Top Post Widget, Twitter Functionality as well as Subscription Options.

Experts believe that this feature makes WordPress a standout amongst other platforms for blogging. Uploading these plugins was a simple process, as I already had Core FTP available to me.

Spam Comments were Reduced

With the presence of Akismet (a plugin), I found that there were very few spam comments on my website, even though it has a respectable position in Google Searches. According to my research, spam comments were one of the problems that most bloggers faced with their blogs. While this plugin greatly reduced spam, it was unable to completely eliminate the problem.

Even though WP and its plugins have undergone a lot of changes, it still continues to be of excellent service for me. Whether it is posting or including new tools, I am sure no other platform would have given me a better experience.
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Content Management System

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

A Content Management System (CMS) is that which is used to manage the creation, editing, reviewing, indexing, searching, as well as publishing of various information or interactive features that are useful to the end-user. In Internet parlance, this usually refers to everything concerned with managing content on a website.

CMS usually functions as an interface between the user producing the content, and the person viewing it. For example, a writer trying to bounce ideas off the public for his latest novel will not be expected to know the intricacies of the programming that goes behind publishing his work on a website. In this case, an intermediate application may be used to make things convenient for the author to publish his thoughts and ideas, thus making things easier.

Let us run with the same example and look at some other features of a CMS. Suppose there were fifty authors publishing their work on a single website, and one of them suddenly decides to look at her past work. It would be tedious and time consuming to wade through the database and look for her work amongst several other stories. Using a CMS, she could simply search for her name, a specific keyword, or perhaps the date of creation of her work, and the CMS would display the appropriate article that she was looking for.

A CMS is usually clubbed with a template that the application is compatible with, and provides for a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to make things simpler for the user creating the content. To understand this, compare the ease of use when concerning operating systems like Windows and MS-DOS.

In Windows, the user would only have to press the delete button on the keyboard followed by the enter key to remove a piece of data. But in an operating system like MS-DOS, the user will have to enter the required command (in this case, the DEL command) followed by the filename to delete the data that is no longer required. While it is arguable that one command can be committed to memory, consider a system that has hundreds of commands that are used to perform various operations on a daily basis. This is where a GUI of a CMS would score over other types of applications.

The advantages of using a CMS are there for all to see, and it has helped shape the future of database management and its various applications on the Internet.

Most used CMS are Wordpress and Joomla, because they are easy to use and there are lots of site like wordpress developer and joomla template with lots of content free to use

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