The competition is always less at the top of the ladder and the elements lower in the order always strive hard to reach higher. Never mind the qualities, features the competition is lot in the space of Content Management Systems. A great CMS ultimately decides how a particular site going to take shape. A good CMS lays the foundation of the site and thus it is essential you know about it if you are set to start a personal website or a commercial website. Following are some of the free open source Content Management Systems which you might wanna give a try. This is not a comparison of CMS and merely a compilation of free Content Management Systems.
Drupal: Drupal is a free open source modular content management system for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy to use administration features. It is written in two languages PHP and SQL. Its features includes discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support and much more.
Wordpress: Wordpress is one of the most popular Content management system it is used primarily by bloggers but it can still be used as a general CMS. With the help of plugin and some tweaking of the code you can turn your blog into a very powerful Content Managment system.
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Linux Users are unlucky when it comes to cool note taking applications. All the good ones like OneNote and Evernote are not supported natively on the Linux. I although managed to run Evernote with the help of Wine but it looks pretty ugly.
There is however no dearth when you want simple note-taking applications. There are scores of simple desktop applications for Linux. Some of the popular ones are:
TomBoy Notes is any easy solution if you want take some notes which you can retrieve later. The written text is save automatically. It lets you link other notes while you do get the option to change the style and font size of text.
KNotes is another note-taking application which comes by default with KDE. It is an utterly simple post-it-note kind of application but it does manage to squeeze in enough to suffice basic requirements. There are hardly any features but you can customize the Knotes by changing the color, setting an alarm, mailing the note etc.
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Google has launched Video Chat in Gmail but the Linux users will have to wait for awhile. Google might be the most open source friendly company but they have not been in time for developing their applications for Linux. They were late in bringing the Linux version of Picassa while they are yet to launch the Linux versions of Google Chrome and Google Talk, two of the Google products which I use most. Now that Google has come up with a plugin in Gmail which will allow users to do video chat, the Linux users will have to wait again like always to get their share.
I don’t use Video chats but I do believe that Ubuntu users like me have little option when it comes to it. Ubuntu comes preloaded with Ekiga Softphone which although does solve the purpose to some extent but most users would love to have an application which can parallel the video chat experience of Yahoo messenger or MSN. There is another chatting client called Kopete which although supports Video support but lacks Voice support so you can see what your friend is doing but can’t say anything.
I either use Pidgin or the web messengers of MSN and Yahoo in Mozilla Prism to do most of routine chatting but there is hardly any compelling choice if I wish to do video chatting.
There is one application called Gyachi which can although solve the purpose if you want to do video chatting on Yahoo but it said to be buggy. Gyachi also happens to be very notorious among its users and they even call it the ugliest Linux application ever. There is Skype on Linux as well but then you can’t talk to your friends on Yahoo and MSN with it.
The best that I have been able to get as of now is the online IM client Meebo which introduced Video Chats with support from TokBox earlier this year. I hope that Google launches the Video Chat support for Gmail soon on Linux so that I can compare both of them. I will stick with Meebo for now though.
We all come across many websites while surfing the web. They all perform a certain pre-defined task say, some work as a simple web blog while some websites offer you an online shopping arcade. Whatever be the job, each one of them has to work on a certain platform that can manage the content on the server. To perform the above tasks we need a Special Content Management System.
Q. Now what is a Content Management System in practical?
A. Basically a Content Management System is a software that keeps track of every piece of content on your website. The term ‘Content’ means anything which is stored on the web server or which is transferred between a client & a server. It can be anything like a plain text, documents, photos, videos, a user database or just anything that is used while interacting on world wide web. Content management systems basically help the non technical users who can’t program an application but need a ready made solution that can handle every bit & piece of their application in both front as well as back end.
Nowadays, Open Source Content Management Systems are used by almost everyone ranging from a proficient programmer to the non technical groups & even the Fortune 500 companies. Their are quite a few reasons which contribute to such a tremendous popularity of Open Source CMS on a global scale such as the involvement of the world’s finest brains in the development of Open Source CMS, their regular updates, extensive testing & their free availability. Today we will be reviewing few of the most popular open source Content management systems which you can readily use to go online. Please note that it was not possible to review each & every feature of all the products. Hence any issues that may conflict your opinion with the views written here should be brought to our immediate notice for the betterment of us all.
Drupal : is a free Open Source Content Management System which came into limelight just after its initial release in year 2001 has since been growing as the most popular & the most downloaded open source content management system which is not only been used by individuals but is also been deployed by many top ranking web portals as their programming platform. Drupal allows to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers who remain focused on developing new addons & upgrading the product. Drupal is generally deployed in running the following type of web applications:
- Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
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