Open Source Tools for Building Websites

 
OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR BUILDING WEBSITES 

1. Website building Using WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular open source free CMS (content management system) frameworks available in the website market. The majority of those who don’t know much coding prefer to create a website using WordPress. There are two variants of WordPress. The first is wordpress.com, where you can host your own website, which will have a domain name wordpress.com at the end – for example, maulikparekh.wordpress.com. By paying an amount, you can change the name to your own domain name, say, maulikparekh.com.

2. Joomla

Joomla is an open source free CMS platform similar to WordPress, and is the most popular framework after WordPress. Joomla is also built on PHP. Joomla’s installation is not as quick as WordPress, but it’s not tough either. There are lots of menus in Joomla compared to WordPress. Many people think that Joomla is more powerful than WordPress. Overall, anyone can opt for Joomla, since it is a stable and popular framework. In the case of Joomla, too, you can host your website on it by downloading the Joomla framework and creating self-hosted websites.

3. Drupal

Drupal is another open source CMS framework like Joomla and WordPress. Drupal’s installation is also similar to Joomla and WordPress. There is an installation script which will install the framework. It also offers different distributions. Drupal bundles are used to create specific kinds of websites. Drupal is a bit complicated after installation. Beginners find it difficult compared to other popular CMS systems, when it comes to changing components of the websites.

4. OpenCms

OpenCms is a Java and XML based technology, which is used as a professional content management system. We can create beautiful websites using OpenCms, which is also open source software.

5. Orchard Project

Orchard Project is a free, open source CMS built on the ASP.Net MVC platform. It is also a community driven project. Some of the features of this CMS are modularity, security, multi-lingual support, and being multi-tenant based; we can also create workflows to trigger specific jobs.

6. concrete5

concrete5 is a free and open source CMS that is coded in MVC (model-view-controller) software architectural pattern with an object-oriented language. It is secure, flexible, SEO friendly and mobile ready. It also has a marketplace. It has a medium-sized community base and support.

7. Liferay

Liferay is a free and open source enterprise software product that is mainly used for corporate intranets and extranets. It has inbuilt CMS support and is written in Java. It has an open source and enterprise version. Liferay Portal CE is the open source version of Liferay’s enterprise Web platform.