When choosing the best content management system for your project, it is important to weigh both the technical and non-technical pros and cons. Both technical and non-technical reasons can ultimately affect the bottom line cost. Therefore, it is not recommended to simply choose a content management system based solely on technical language or feature set. In this article, we will take a look at an open source content management system called Radiant CMS.

Radiant is a Ruby on Rails based solution that works with a variety of databases. It has a few years of development and a couple noteworthy deployments. There are technical and non-technical reasons why Radiant CMS is a good choice for a content management system.

Technical Reasons to Choose Radiant CMS: It’s Ruby on Rails based which can speed development by taking advantage of the convention over configuration paradigm. In addition, the Radiant code base has excellent automated coverage in unit tests. This means the code is well tested and robust. Unit test code coverage can be one aspect to measure when considering open source content management systems. In fact, we could suggest the amount of code covered by automated unit and integration tests should be considered when choosing any open source library and/or framework. It is an easy indicator to measure and compare. But, that is an entirely different conversation. Read the rest of this entry »

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With an explosion of online content there is consequently an explosion of content management systems (CMS) available to help you manage that content, with literally thousands of vendors to sift through. But most CMS’ still end up being too expensive, too difficult to maintain, and eventually inadequate. This is often the result of purchase decisions based on technology, and not business requirements.

So then, how are CMS solutions chosen? You will usually compare product features, ask friends and colleagues, and look to different analyst ratings. In theory, this should be an excellent way to pick the right solution and sometimes it is. But content management systems have been around for over two decades and the features and functionality for the most part are starting to become commoditized. The ‘bells and whistles’ that these solutions try to distinguish themselves with, ultimately have no bearing on your content-specific needs. And this is why most solutions you purchase will end up being junked after they fail to do what is asked of them. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Content Management System is a type of website design. It is a website that allows you to take control of your own site. It is the name given to a computer software that is used to create, edit and manage as well as publish content in an organised fashion.

This system means that you don’t have the added expense of dealing with web site designers as you are able to edit it yourself. Many of you may be left thinking how can I edit a website without technical knowledge? The answer is easily with a Content Management System. You don’t need to have technical knowledge to figure out how to change aspects of your website via this System you just merely have to have a go at doing it. The idea of editing it yourself allows you as the end user to update content, which is highly important as websites have to be kept up-to-date to be effective.

There is a frequent use of content management systems for storing, controlling, versioning and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators, manuals, technical manuals, sales guides and marketing brochures. Some of the content that you may be editing and looking after as part of a content management system includes computer files, media such as images, audio files and electronic documents as well as other web related content. Read the rest of this entry »

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