{"id":8428,"date":"2013-02-11T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/2013\/02\/spoilt-for-choice-content-management-systems-cms\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:25:23","slug":"spoilt-for-choice-content-management-systems-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/2013\/02\/spoilt-for-choice-content-management-systems-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoilt for choice &#8211; Content Management Systems (CMS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only the open source world that can offer a range of ingenious content management system (CMS) solutions today. But what is the best choice for a small company or SME? Below you will find a short checklist or list of questions to help you decide on a CMS system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your financial budget? Can you and do you want to afford a CMS that incurs annual license fees?<\/li>\n<li>Would you like to be able to customize the layout and design as well as the content?<\/li>\n<li>What security requirements do you have for the website?<\/li>\n<li>How modular should the content be structured (e.g. content blocks, fragments, columns)?<\/li>\n<li>How do you envisage technical support if your CMS spits out errors? (telephone, e-mail, community forums)<\/li>\n<li>How many people work on the website (e.g. editors, moderators, administrators)?<\/li>\n<li>What content do you want to offer on your website (text pages, photos, videos, documents, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>Would you like to launch your website in several languages?<\/li>\n<li>Do you want your website to be versioned (allows you to restore old page versions\/page content)<\/li>\n<li>What requirements do you have for loading times?<\/li>\n<li>How well does your website need to be search engine optimized?<\/li>\n<li>Are you thinking of integrating the CMS into other systems?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list of questions is only an excerpt. <a title=\"Contact form\" href=\"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/kontakt-details\/kontaktformular\/\">We<\/a> would be happy to <a title=\"Contact form\" href=\"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/kontakt-details\/kontaktformular\/\">discuss your<\/a> CMS requirements <a title=\"Contact form\" href=\"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/kontakt-details\/kontaktformular\/\">with you<\/a> in detail and work with you to select the most suitable software.<\/p>\n<h3>Here are our Open Source CMS top 10 charts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>#01: WordPress 3.x<\/li>\n<li>#02: Joomla 3<\/li>\n<li>#03: Joomla 2.x<\/li>\n<li>#04: Drupal<\/li>\n<li>#05: Contao<\/li>\n<li>#06: Typo3 CMS<\/li>\n<li>#07: Typo3 (Pre-Typo CMS)<\/li>\n<li>#08: Silverstripe<\/li>\n<li>#09: Dotnetnuke<\/li>\n<li>#10: Umbraco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not only the open source world that can offer a range of ingenious content management system (CMS) solutions today. But what is the best choice for a small company or SME? Here you will find a short checklist or list of questions to help you decide on a CMS system.  ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rettenmund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}