Value Of Using Open Source Cms

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Open Source has totally changed operating systems, application servers and databases. Content management systems are an easy way to improve the presence of the website by adding a multitude of functionality which includes the ability to edit content directly from the browser and also allows multiple authors for the same.

Website development was never an easy task but now with the availability of CMS solutions, it has now become much easier. Open source is giving a push to CMS into the hands of developers and organizations that were previously unable or used to feel unwilling to use CMS.

Open source CMS software like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are easy to use as we don’t need much programming skills to make general updates or changes. Some benefits and usefulness offered by these open source CMS are being discussed below:

1] There is no proprietary licensing fee which doesn’t mean that the open source will be free. You will be definitely be paying for the development fees of your website but the licensing fees required to use your CMS will not be paid on top of the programming charges.

2] With ...
... open source software it is possible to customize page titles, META descriptions, SEO friendly URLs, and permalinks to support your SEO goals.

3] Open source CMS can easily accommodate the additional new content, additional services offered with the growth of the business or if additional features are to be added in the website with the growth of the firm or organization. Moreover, open source CMS has proved themselves as the most secured and safe platform for the online storage, display and distribution of websites.

4] You can add text or you can even upload media files directly from your browser. So if you working from your home or using your laptop, the browser-based administration makes it simple to be updated.

5] Open source CMS are customizable that is it offers a variety of modules for everything from the custom social networking sites and document management to forums and ecommerce to provide you unlimited functionalities. It also provide free and unlimited access to the source code and also free license to control and alter that code only if the end result is also available for free.

6] Any proprietary open source CMS when developed it is developed by limited number of programmers as no company has much resources to match the developer community that supports open source so the software is of high quality. Also, numerous developers constantly try to improve the software which makes the code of open sources more stable.

7] Open sources are supported by the vast, passionate and experienced group of developers community. So if anything goes wrong with your website it will be easy for you to find a developer who can help you to resolve the problem.

8] The popular Content Management systems offer free online support in the form of technical support forums and extensive tutorials.

Because of these above discussed benefits and functionalities offered by open source content management systems most of the people prefer it to develop their websites, blogs or ecommerce sites.

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