From the course: CMS Essential Training
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Resources for comparing CMSs
From the course: CMS Essential Training
Resources for comparing CMSs
At some point, you're going to start the process of comparing content management systems on your own. One of the things that you're going to realize fairly quickly is that the CMS marketplace is extremely crowded. Making comparisons between feature sets, platforms, and other requirements can be very difficult, if not downright tedious. That's why I want to show you a couple of sites that can really help you refine your search and give you some tools to help you focus on the systems that best meet your needs. So the first site I want to show is CMS Matrix, and you can find this at cmsmatrix.org. And this is a really cool site that will give you some idea as to how many different CMSs are out there and then give you some tools to compare these CMSs. Now the list oldest of CMSs here isn't comprehensive, but it is huge. So let's say I want to compare two relatively similar CMSs, like CMS Made Simple and Textpattern. So what I want to do is I would just go ahead and scroll down and find…
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Comparing CMSs4m 28s
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Core features to research4m 41s
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Commonly overlooked issues4m 12s
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Properly assessing needs4m 39s
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Knowing when to seek assistance4m 15s
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Choosing a CMS for designers4m 45s
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Choosing a CMS for organizations4m 12s
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The pros and cons of hosted solutions2m 58s
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Hosted solution examples5m 51s
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The pros and cons of open source solutions4m 36s
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Open source CMS examples7m 6s
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Proprietary CMSs7m 48s
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A closer look at Drupal5m 7s
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A closer look at Joomla!4m
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A closer look at WordPress5m 33s
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Resources for comparing CMSs9m 2s
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