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Top three Web CMS for small publishers
Matt Kinsman over at Foliomag.com has an interesting piece this week based on a conversation he had with DPCI president Joe Bachana (whom we will be interviewing next week for our One on One series).
Bachana liked Clickability, Drupal and WordPress for small publishers. I agree they are good choices and give you the opportunity to scale as you grow. WordPress and Drupal are open source choices meaning you can use them for free, although you may need to find someone who understands these packages to customize them to meet your needs. The great thing about WordPress is the large number of available templates, which you can adapt to meet your needs. As Bachana points out in Kinsman's post, Drupal also benefits from a worldwide developer community contributing add-on modules.
Clickability is a Software as a Service vendor, so you pay as you go and you can scale easily as you grow. What's more you don't have to worry about having an IT department or setting up equipment because you can run your entire website in your browser on Clickability's servers. You also run Drupal and WordPress in a browser, but you may need to find a host for your site (or you may want to set up your own host servers).
Bachana has chosen three worthy choices for small businesses. There are others of course, and any list like this, especially one this small, is likely to ruffle the feathers of those he left out. These aren't by any means the only choices, but they do offer an excellent starting point for small publishers who want to get up and running quickly.
For more information:
- see Kinsman's post on Foliomag.com
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By Chris | Posted 1:54pm | March 26, 2009
Although I work for an enterprise WCM vendor, Percussion, I would definitely recommend small publishers and those looking for a lower-end solution look at Squarespace (www.squarespace.com) - fantastic UI, robust functionality, great support, and a lot easier to implement than WordPress and Drupal.
By Joe Bachana | Posted 8:42pm | March 26, 2009
Just wanted to post a follow-up here that Squarespace is more of an analogous implementation to Clickability. Finite functionality, hosted model, convenient. If someone is looking to implement something fast and basic, this could be a viable option.
However, for more control over the functionality of your site -- which is definitely what small publishers are wanting these days so that they can respond rapidly to competition, they'll go with Drupal or a similar solution.
Wordpress, by the way, is pretty easy to set up --however I've never done a time trial between a Wordpress config vs. one with a solution like Squarespace.
In any event, I will ALWAYS recommend to someone in market to go with a solution that is being embraced on the market -- I don't know that Squarespace has any kind of market share at this present time, and it certainly is nowhere close to having the developer community of Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, or about a dozen other solutions.
If someone's going with the hosted approach, there's hundreds of options out there. I don't have stock in Clickability or any of the others -- I'd just make sure you do your procurement planning and vendor analysis very carefully before making a select on a SaaS model solution.
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