Magazine CMS (Content Management Systems) for magazine publisher websites is becoming more complex in terms of requirements for the publication online needs. The new social readership aspects of confirming the niche ownership online has become a top priority.

Open source cms software for publishers has another advantage over commercial cms in this area. First, we find that open source publisher cms tools often contain the tags, social widget, and community collaboration features ahead of when these features surface in traditional enterprise web publishing systems.

Magazine CMS Software - Open Source

Drupal is one example of a CMS that has allowed us to create very complex and custom feature sets for clients. The Drupal CMS provides us many opportunities to design a magazine website with both the style, function, and social features to support the readership, circulation development, and advertiser features requested.

While there are many other cms comparison factors we use to select a specific CMS tool for a magazine publisher’s website we have found that most of the open source cms tools now perform better than traditional commercial packages that often we harder to manage.

The good new for publishers is that they can use open source with a higher capability index and we can easily demonstrate that those that claim a higher cost of ownership for open source are not accurate or not familiar with the latest magazine cms software tools.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Magazine Web Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.