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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