1. WikkaWiki

WikkaWiki may not be known due to its modest feature set, it is one of the swiftest CMSs coded in PHP to date. Its speed and ease of use are remarkable, and if you plan to create a small wiki site that may not require heavy CMSs, you should consider WikkaWiki as an option. It uses MySQL databases to store information.

2. JAMWiki

JAMWiki is a JAVA clone of MediaWiki. Thus, it uses the same syntax as MediaWiki and is one of the leading wiki CMSs coded in JAVA.

3. ScrewTurn Wiki

ScrewTurn Wiki allows you to create, manage and share wikis. A wiki is a collaboratively-edited, information-centered website: the most famous is Wikipedia.

4. Foswiki

Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser. For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros to automate pages and build entire applications from within your browser.

5. MediaWiki

MediaWiki is used by Wikipedia as well as many other projects of Wikipedia’s parent organization Mediawiki Foundation. If you’re looking for a CMS for your wiki website, MediaWiki should be your safest bet! Not only is the CMS powerful, it is also very versatile and is ideal for any sort of wiki website.

6. Zoho Wiki

Encourage individuals to participate and share information. Create workspaces for teams, projects and ensure everyone stays on the same page.Keep information private or share it with your group or organization.

7. DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies.

8. Twiki

TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications.

9. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Tiki is a powerful, web-based application, created by a large team of contributors. Tiki is the ideal tool for you to build and maintain your Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or any other project you can imagine running in your browser window.

10. PhpWiki

PhpWiki is another versatile wiki CMS. Unlike DokuWiki, it uses databases to store the information and is therefore, a slightly bulkier CMS. If you are looking for a nimble wiki CMS, PhpWiki might not suit your purpose. However, overall the CMS is a worthy competitor to all the others in the game.

11. Canvas ColdFusion Wiki

Canvas is a ColdFusion Wiki built to allow for community-based editing of content. It follows basic Wiki standards by allowing anyone to edit content, while keeping careful track of the history of each document added to the Wiki. Canvas was built using Model-Glue.

12. XWiki

The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.

13. Enterprise Wiki

14. MoinMoin

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. Said in a few words, it is about collaboration on easily editable web pages.

While you’re spring-cleaning your home, why not give your website an overhaul too? Even if you love the design, there’s probably technical things that can be improved. Does your site load quickly? Does it have any broken links? When was the last time you updated the CMS? It’s always a good idea to give your site a health check – broken links, insecure plugins, and slow loading times can cause all kinds of headaches for your business – damaging your reputation, reducing your search engine rankings, and putting your customer’s private data at risk.

Here’s a few tips to help you get your site in good shape:

1. Check for broken links: This is one area where Google’s webmaster tools can be invaluable. If you find any broken links, fix them immediately. Also, if you don’t have a custom 404 page (that will be displayed when a user tries to visit a page that doesn’t exist), set one up. You’d be amazed how many visitors type the wrong URL, but will stay on your page if you present them with some interesting links on the 404 page.
2. Check your loading times: The YSlow plugin for Firefox is useful for identifying problems that may be making your pages take a long time to load. People are impatient these days, so the quicker your site loads, the better.
3. Update your CMS: If you use a standard CMS (rather than something custom written), then you should keep it up to date at all times. Patches don’t just add new features, they also fix bugs and include vital security improvements.
4. Validate your code: Use the W3C validator to test your code and fix any errors that crop up.
5. Check your Meta tags: Good Title and Meta Description tags will help your site to look more appealing to visitors coming via popular search engines. If you’re not sure what you should put in your Meta tags, or how to change them, ask an expert at a search engine optimisation agency for some tips.
6. Proof-read your content: Spelling mistakes are a huge red flag to customers. Even if you had your content proof-read when it was first put up, look at it again to make sure no mistakes went un-noticed last time.
7. Hire a search engine optimisation agency: Once you have a fast loading, error free site, you’ll have done the ground work that will help an online marketing company to improve your search engine rankings. Don’t just rush straight to this stage – make sure your site works well before you promote it.
8. Add social features: Your online marketing company will probably do a lot of social work. If you add social networking buttons to your site it will be easier for your visitors to continue up-voting/sharing/talking about your site.
9. Show, don’t tell: Start using more pictures in your content. Make sure you use accessibility tags so that your site will still work with screen readers, though.

10.  Check your calls to action: If your pages aren’t converting well, make sure you’re telling your customers what you want them to do, and showing a compelling reason for them to do it. Don’t just say “we have a new mailing list” – ask them to “sign up today for advance notice of special offers!” You should see a huge improvement in conversions if you do this.

osCommerce

osCommerce is absolutely free under the GNU General Public License and caters very well to most people’s needs. Unsurprisingly, considering how easy it is to set up and run, it’s extremely popular, powering over 228,700 online stores. Such popularity does come with a significant downside however- it makes it harder for you to differentiate your store from the thousands of others out there. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’re going to need to use some of the 5,800 add-ons available, some of which cost money.

OpenCart

Not only does OpenCart look great, it’s extremely scalable. You can create an unlimited number of categories, sell an unlimited number of products, accept multiple currencies, use multiple languages, and choose from over 20 payment and 8 shipping methods. It’s user-friendly and search-engine-friendly too, so will help your prominence in Google. Customers can even review and rate the items you sell. It’s not as popular as osCommerce, so help and guidance is not so freely available, but it’s a darn sight better looking.

Magento

You’ve only got to look at Magento’s client list to realise what an excellent piece of open-source software it is. Samsung, The North Face, Stussy and Nespresso all use it to power their online stores. It’s used by 30,000 merchants and is the world’s fastest growing ecommerce platform. You have to pay for the Enterprise Edition, which is packed full of extremely useful features, but the Community Edition, meant for developers only, is free to download and use

CubeCart

CubeCart is a complete ecommerce shopping cart software solution. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers globally.

 VirtueMart

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments.

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is the first E-Commerce project to be granted the Open-Source Award. Download the No.1 Open-Source software in France and in Europe now, join more than 275,000 members in the Community, and experience the ease of use and management of this innovative solution, for a profitable e-commerce business !

Spree Commerce

Spree is an open-source ecommerce platform for Ruby on Rails. Using Spree’s extension system, you’ll be able to customise your store and mark yourself out from your competitors. Useful features include support for over 50 payment gateways, single page checkout and custom tax logic, which can save merchants lots of time and effort. It also comes with Google Analytics built in.

Ubercart

Ubercart is specifically designed for people selling things like file downloads, event registrations, website access passes and event tickets, rather than physical products. Like VirtueMart, which must be integrated with Joomla!, Ubercart must be integrated with Drupal. Drupal users will feel comfortable choosing the ideal modules and themes to customise their shop with, but if you’re not a Drupal user, I suggest choosing a platform that’s a little more straightforward.

Avactis

Easy & Powerful Storefront Customization. Avactis Shopping Cart allows you quick and easy storefront customization to create just the right design for your web site.Simple Integration with Existing Web Site. Avactis online store can be easily integrated into an existing website without any need for any programming skills.Easy-to-understand, web-based Installation Wizard.

Zen Cart

Easy to install, easy to customise and easy to manage, Zen Cart is perfect for those who want a straightforward ecommerce platform without the fuss. It comes with a newsletter manager, discount coupons, gift certificates and all the basic features you’d expect. Users can make the most of the numerous add-ons available to customise their store and make their admin experience a little easier. Too many add-ons, however, and the UI does get rather cluttered, which is a downside of the platform.

Zeuscart

The best thing about Zeuscart is its user interface, which is rich, attractive, user-friendly and generally less boring than most of the open-source UIs that I have to look at on a daily basis. Designed with small and medium businesses in mind, users can make the most of SEO friendly URLs, gift cards, discounts, email templates and tier-pricing, which makes it possible to decrease prices for bulk orders.

StoreSprite

Despite being completely free, StoreSprite offers many features that you’d expect to find only on paid-for and more popular platforms. These include loyalty points, customer ratings and reviews, status notifications, order tracking, special offers, best sellers and shopper accounts. The main drawback of the platform is that your store will come with visible StoreSprite copyright notices, unless you pay to have them removed.

RokQuickCart

RokQuickCart is a very, very simple cart for Joomla!. Its simplicity, however, is both a help and a hindrance as although it can be set up in minutes, it lacks some features which you’ll find in other platforms in this list, for example, it only accepts payments through PayPal and Google Checkout. Having said that, it generally looks good and product image display is impressive.

Tomato Cart

TomatoCart is the new generation of open source shopping cart solution. It is branched from osCommerce 3 as a separate project. As web applications become more and more sophisticated, modern web 2.0 technology such as Ajax and Rich Internet Applications offers significant usability improvements and makes interacting with the web interfaces faster and more efficient.

SimpleCart js

SimpleCart(js) 2.0 is no longer only for Paypal. It now works with Google Checkout as well. You can now add increment, decrement, and remove buttons to your cart. You can also rearrange items, change the HTML tags, do whatever you like to display your cart how you want. No databases, no programming, no headaches. A simple javascript shopping cart in under 20kb that you can setup in minutes. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable. All you need to know is basic HTML.

Afcommerce

If you want to keep your ecommerce platform really, really simple, then Afcommerce could be the option for you. It’s not particularly good looking, neither on the customer nor the user side, but it works right out of the box and is ideal for beginners. It has a speedy one-page checkout, customer help pop-up windows and customer accounts are generated automatically from orders.

1. WordPress

2. Joomla

3. Squarespace

4. Drupal

5. SilverStripe

6. CushyCMS

7. Radiant CMS

8. FrogCMS

9. Concrete5

10. Typo3

11. CMS Made Simple

12. Contao

13. Pligg

14. dotCMS

15. ForkCMS

1. Blogamer

2. Icondock

3. Toggle

4. Typographica

5. Bear Grylls Live

6. Fordstory

7. Boingboing

 8. Flickout

 9. Sellected

10. Kmxus

11. Typechart

12. Carnet Ordinaire

13.Awwwards

14. Healogix

15. Platinumgames

16. The Alpha Geek

 17. Woothemes

18. TechCrunch

 19. Word Refuge

 20. IconEden

21. Iokonmedia

22. Makeuseof

23. Vectips

24. Spotify

25. ZeeGlobe

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are three of the top Content Management Systems (CMS) used to build a website. A CMS is software that is installed on web space and used to create a website. Using a CMS lets you add your own HTML content to different pages for a customized website without building it from scratch. You can build an impressive website using a CMS without any prior knowledge of programming, but you will need to know basic HTML.

WordPress began as a blog publishing software, but has grown to be a complete CMS program with many of the same features as Joomla and Drupal. All three of these programs are open source programs, which means they are free to use and customize. Each program has its own community of developers devoted to upgrading and adding extensions. In addition, support is available from the community, so even if you don’t have experience with a CMS, you can ask for help or find a previously released extension for your needs.

Drupal

If you prefer to code by hand rather than using an editor, Drupal is the CMS for you. It is more popular among those with programming experience than it is with those new to web development. Since the community is made up of mainly web developers, help is available for complex websites. Hand-coding also gives you the flexibility to create a feature-rich custom website rather than relying on premade extensions and plugins.

Drupal’s interface is not as user-friendly as other CMS’s because it is designed for web developers rather than the casual or new designer. Unless you have a lot of experience with Drupal and programming, publishing can be frustrating and time-consuming.

Joomla

Joomla is the favorite open source software among web developers because it has so many possibilities for customizing a website. It offers more freedom when creating a website than do other open source CMS’s. There is a large community of users sharing support and extensions to use to create your website.

Joomla is not a very user-friendly program, so it is not the best option for new web developers. If you do not have prior experience coding and designing websites, it can be confusing and hard to implement. Joomla does have a learning curve, but if you are willing to use tutorials to help you learn, you can great a feature-rich website by yourself.

WordPress

WordPress is perhaps the most popular CMS because it has been available for bloggers before it was turned into a CMS. The latest versions allow you to create a static page, so it is easy to use this program as a website development tool. WordPress has an easy to use interface and is easy to customize to fit the needs of your website. There are thousands of widgets and plugins available for a variety of web applications. WordPress is one of the easiest CMS programs for new web developers because it is easy to install and easy to use.

WordPress has a smaller community than either Drupal or Joomla, so you may not find be able to find the help you need. In addition, upgrades and plugins can cause your website to not work properly or worse, disappear completely.

The best CMS for you and your website depends on your level of programming knowledge and what features you want to implement. Websites with basic features can be built in WordPress or Joomla, but Drupal makes a better choice for very elaborate websites. However, Drupal has a larger learning curve and can be frustrating if you are a new web developer.

The importance of a good content management system (CMS) cannot be overplayed. This is especially true for workplaces as such a system is vital for the success of your business. In a nutshell, what a CMS does is enable data sharing between multiple computers at a workplace. This helps in many ways, as it would enable all your projects and reports to be completed by a series of different people. It is all about seamless integration which ultimately makes the workplace more efficient. The market has many paid CMS options to choose from but there is no dearth of quality free options either. Below are the best free CMS options.

Drupal

It is among the most popular of all free CMS options. Like any good CMS option, it will enable you to organize and publish various things on your website. Community support is one of Drupal’s strong points. This CMS sees constant updates which add new features and editing options. Drupal features a number of modules that various types of websites can use.

SilverStripe

Another popular free CMS choice among many users, SilverStripe is sought after for its compatibility will all types of operating systems. This CMS’s template language has the ability to integrate itself easily into any type of database. SilverStripe’s templates are different from codes used on the website which makes the task of programming much easier.

Cushy CMS

An amazingly easy and user friendly format is one of the highlights of this great free CMS option. However the most important thing about this CMS application is that it is hosted. What this means is you won’t be required to install any modifications or custom programs to get it working. Cushy CMS also makes whatever you create with it SEO friendly. This will help your website achieve the best possible results.

dotCMS

A large collection of editing tools is what this free CMS program is known for. dotCMS seamlessly supports file tree controls, image edits and even communication management. These features will enable a computer to easily create its processes. Programmers and developers can easily get access to a website’s source code by using dotCMS.

Concrete5

This is an open source CMS. Concrete5 has a number of features that are suited to executing online marketing strategies quite smoothly. Content editing, site developing modules and template designing work very well with this CMS. Concrete5 is written in PHP language for smooth operation and easy achieving of results. The CMS also supports a number of add-ons which can help you in many ways.

Radiant CMS

The last in this list of good free CMS options, Radiant CMS is ideally suited for use in small organizations and workplaces. Controlling is very easy thanks to the user friendly options and interfaces. Adjusting pages is also a breeze. This CMS even allows use of some customised text fillers. If you are looking for an easy to handle development platform then you can’t go wrong Radiant CMS.

Each of the above CMS options is free. All of them have their own set of strengths and weaknesses. You will know about their suitability to your requirements only after trying them out which shouldn’t be a problem as they are free after all.

It is a well known fact that Magento is one of the most powerful e-commerce solutions. Magento development is one of the most effective ways to boost the traffic, sales and ROI of a business. It is an open source technology that provides the full control to the user. Magento is extremely easy to use. It lets the site owner to make required changes in the site as and when required. It has a set of features and innumerable modules to offer.

In today’s hyper competitive world, an online portal needs a lot more than just the online presence. There are tons of sites on the web and all are vying to grab the top positions on search engine rankings. Thus it goes without saying that in order to survive this fierce competition and fare better than the competitors, e-commerce website needs to robust, advanced and full of all the latest features. This is exactly what Magento provides. It empowers a business by incorporating a number of functionality and enhances its performance. With Magento, it is convenient to manage a web portal, no matter how large and complex it is.

This is precisely the reason why there is a greater demand for PSD to Magento these days. PSD to Magento conversion helps to provide a full fledged, advanced, professional and dynamic website incorporated with all the latest features. In fact, this conversion guarantees all the features required for a well structured and smooth functioning website. Some of these features are:

• W3C validation: This is one of the most important features provided by PSD to Magento conversion. W3C validation is necessary for a website to ensure that the code is completely error free; the site is well structured and is built adhering to web standards. A W3C validated website can boost your business’ chances of making it big. This is because a W3C validated site runs smoothly and ensures good business.

• Cross browser compatibility: This feature ensures that the site is accessible via different browsers like IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari etc. If a website is not accessible via different browsers, it will lose out on a majority of visitors as people use different browsers in different parts of the world. With this feature, your site will get visitors from all over the world and will boost the conversion rate of your business.

• Semantic coding: Semantic coding ensures that the code structure is neat and all the components are at their right place. A well structured website attracts more visitors that consequently increase the traffic volume and sales rate of your business.

• Pixel perfect conversion: This feature makes sure that the site bears the same look across different platforms. A pixel perfect site earns reputation from both search engines as well as visitors. This augurs well for your site.

• Web compatible pages: PSD to Magento conversion ensures that the pages are web compatible and are accessible via different browsers. With web compatible pages, you can rest assured that your site will do a good business.

Magento shopping cart software can help you run the online business with perfect ease. It has plethora of built-in functionality to support an online business in a perfect manner. Magento’s built-in features and advanced modules have made it s globally popular e-commerce shopping cart software. Some of its features are mentioned below

1. Multiple store management: Magento can easily help you manage multiple stores without any hassles. It has a single back end admin panel from where the store owner can control all the functionality of the store. With Magento, you can be rest assured that your e-commerce store performs well and fetches good ROI. It can help you in globalize your business and manage multiple stores with perfect ease.

2. Multiple language and currency support: Another interesting and very helpful feature of Magento is that it supports multiple languages and currencies. Nothing else can be a big relief for a store owner that caters to international customers. The owner does not have to worry about the communication barrier or the currency problem. With visitors from around the world, you business will earn a good brand name and good ROI. This is the most impressive feature of Magento which helps in globalization for a brand.

3. Endless product uploading: If you have a big store and sell a large number of products, Magento is what you need to carry this out even further. It allows the store owner to upload unlimited number of products. You can extend your business by adding n number of products without worrying about it affecting the functionality of your site.

4. SEO Optimization: Magento is a search engine friendly e-commerce solution and has built-in SEO optimization tools to boost the SEO ranking of the site. With it’s built in SEO features, you can create unique titles, keywords etc. with these SEO features, you site will attain top search engine ranking and consequently get good traffic and sales.

5. Code structure: Magento has well defined core code that allows the users to download other extensions without worrying about the functionality of the current website.

6. Community support: Magento has a big developer’s community that makes it easy to get help from experts. It can also store third party extensions in a number of ways.

Besides these built-in features, Magento also offers a plethora of extensions that can extend the functionality of website. Some of the useful Magento extensions are:

1. Extended sitemap: This extension allows you to display all of your existing Catalog Categories, Products, CMS Pages and additional configurable links with a hierarchical structure SEO optimized for web spiders on a single Site Map page available through your store footer link.

2. Donations: This extension allows you to accept donations from your customers. Donation can be added to an order total right before the checkout process from customer’s shopping cart. You can easily configured Donation purpose text via CMS Static block. It also allows you to set a minimum donation amount you accept.

3. Currency Auto switcher: This extension enables multi-currency Magento stores to automatically switch store currency for visitor based on visitor’s IP address geographical location.

4. Geo Lock: This extension allows limit access to Magento store from specific countries automatically detected by IP address or geographical location. It is also possible to set IP black and white lists.

5. Delivery Zones: Delivery/Shipping Zones extension allows store owners to filter (hide) specific store categories and/or shipping methods based on country and region of visitors.

With plenty of built-in features and innumerable extensions, Magento is simply the best option for an online business. In this globalized world, Magento can help your business take a big leap towards success by globalizing it and making it customer centric. Magento is simply indispensable if you wish to make an impact in your niche domain and grow with a steady pace.

Many people are under the mistaken impression that WordPress is only for blogs. Actually, that is where WordPress began; however, WordPress is now the perfect place for a newly designed or redesigned website. WordPress affords users ease of both use and functionality of the content management system (CMS). WordPress website users have more control of their server files, themes, plugins, source codes and much more. Users can also import their .com sites to their self-hosted site. Another benefit of using WordPress is that it is almost totally free. Adding pictures and videos are simple on WordPress. Of course, incorporating and creating a blog can be done in a matter of just a few minutes.

Many users of WordPress will be pleased to find out that hundreds of page themes are free, and there are more specialized page themes for a very small fee. These themes are easy to install and there is a multiple user access with control permissions. WordPress offers search engine optimization (SEO) friendly coding. It is very easy to adapt to without any needed support. WordPress is famous for its 5 minute installation. That is hardly a time investment and well worth trying WordPress for your website needs.

Another thing that is great about WordPress is that you are able to maintain your search rankings nearly 100% of the time. If a website is migrated to WordPress, search engines and robots will be able to easily access the site. WordPress is very favorable among website users. These users really like the available plugins. WordPress is known to have an extremely large plug-in base. Plugins help users achieve a number of CMS customizations. New plugins are frequently made available. This allows for the specific and continuing needs of those interested in migrating to WordPress. All of these wonderful features make using WordPress a very attractive choice for so many.

WordPress has a very large community that can offer advice about plugin identification and their many uses, as well as advice on the CMS. Not that anyone should need CMS advice, since WordPress makes it so simple. However, in the case that they do, it’s there for them. As with most of the options in WordPress, upgrading is made so simple. Each version released is thoroughly tested and includes additional functionality and security features. WordPress is so flexible and easy to implement almost any application. This makes WordPress such a powerful, attractive option for users. Creativity and imagination are unlimited when choosing to use WordPress website needs. Client satisfaction is vast with WordPress. That is not surprising considering they get so much for so little in the way of cost and time. Users are able to create and manage amazing websites with little or no web development experience. That in and of itself, is truly a beautiful thing.

Without a doubt, WordPress is above its competitors. The benefits are obvious. Prior to the high functionality and the easy operation of the WordPress CMS, users had to be well versed in HTML, PHP and CSS in order to manually create, organize and upload different web pages. WordPress is extremely user friendly. Other content management systems brag about their vast list of features, but more often than not, they are extremely complicated to use. WordPress actually realizes the goal of endless features without the complications. After migrating to WordPress, web site users will immediately notice the power of WordPress through their own ability to use it in so many ways.

The anniversary 30,000th template is a Flash CMS design specially developed for Photo Portfolio website project. This template is professionally done with Papervision3D and offers an interesting layout solution and Flash animation. Containing a lot of interactive elements, the theme has a strong point in its navigation menu that is exclusively presented in a style of a tunnel. Contrasting colors make this Flash CMS template truly noticeable while the dynamics makes it powerful. In fact, it’s a pretty nice approach towards the idea of showcasing the online photo gallery.

Note again that on August 10 and 11, 2010 you can purchase any website template including this one to receive the freebie from Template Monster. This promo is actually worth paying your attention to, so keep it in mind and visit Template Monster’s official blog entry to check for more interesting details.