Top Content Management Systems to choose for your Business

A content management system is a software application or set of related programs that help us to create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.

CMS allows you to create and manage digital content easily without having a website development experience. With the use of an efficient CMS, users can build a website without needing to write all the code from scratch (or even know how to write a single line of code at all).

Here at Straight Growth, we believe a company’s website is the first salesman of a business. To create, manage and organize an effective website you need a powerful content management system. We have listed down some of the most usable CMS in the market for you to decide what’s best for your business. 

1. WordPress

The most famous content management system in the market is WordPress. WordPress is the ultimate CMS for your business. Publishing new posts and pages is easy, and you have access to a powerful editor that enables you to format your content the way you like it.

WordPress has a plugin repository of an estimated 40,000+ free plugins available for download, while the theme marketplace has over 2,100+ plugins to choose from on your website.

Many companies and mobile applications are now using WordPress for their website needs, not only because it's secure, reliable, and pleasant to work with but also due to the availability of a wide variety of styles and the ease of design flexibility.

• A powerful editor for you to format your content with ease.
• Strong and quick customer support and community.
• It is highly customizable because of a variety of plugins and themes.
• Includes intuitive publishing and content management options.

2. JOOMLA

Joomla is another most usable CMS for a business that is looking for a little bit of knowledge in terms of coding power. Joomla is suitable for medium to large-sized business organizations. Joomla’s codebase is much more typical than that of WordPress but has an upper hand of more scalability and more back-end system integrations. Joomla has an attractive administration interface, complete with intuitive drop-down menus and other features. Access and authority of Joomla CMS are great and it comes with some access control protocols like LDAP, OpenID and even Gmail.com.

Key Features:

• User management with advanced access and control.
• Excellent support was offered for the custom post types.
• Unique page templates for different page types.
• Includes multilingual support

3. WIX

Wix is one of the best CMS for small businesses. Wix uses a drag and drop interface to design and develop your website. It has the most popular website builder with millions of users worldwide. Wix makes it much easier to set up and use than most but might become costly as your business and traffic to your website grows. Wix helps you make your own website exactly the way you want, whether it’s your first time creating a website or you’re a long-time pro.

Key Features:

• Drag and drop interface
• Responsive Support team
• Easy to host & set up your website

4. HubSpot COS

HubSpot COS(content optimization system) is CMS Built for Professional Marketers. It easily allows users to build and manage a website that's optimized for every device and every visitor. You can create and manage websites of any size in HubSpot. The main feature of HubSpot COS is that it integrates with all your marketing tools and other 3rd party systems. With HubSpot, you can easily create content and design your website.

HubSpot’s website designs are responsive and equipped with an SEO optimization tool. This means the website will always be optimized on all devices but you are also able to seamlessly use other elements of the tool like forms, workflows, landing pages, emails, social media, and even sales tools. Hubspot is not only a secure and easy-to-use platform but also has various in-built functions that give a personalized touch to all website visitors.

Key Features:

• Best CMS for all-level site wiz. small to enterprise-level
• Includes intuitive publishing and content management options.
• Management of multiple sites from a single portal.
• Fully integrated with the in-built CRM
• Multiple installations of custom modules and templates from the marketplace.

5. TYPO3

TYPO3 is a content management system that has been exclusively built to operate and manage sites of a larger magnitude, as well as to be a typical content management software, whereas platforms like WordPress are traditionally native blogging platforms. TYPO3 is generally used for big corporate websites, because of its various in-built integrations that don’t require additional extensions or plugins. TYPO3 is not what it used to be, developers made this CMS highly flexible and you can also extend it using newly introduced functions without writing any program code.

Key Features:

• CMS for enterprise-level sites.
• Support for multilingual websites around the world.
• It allows you to share data and tools among your websites.
• Management of multiple sites from a single installation.

6. Drupal

Drupal is another CMS just like Joomla. Drupal's main focus is on the architecture of the content management itself and a CMS which widely adopted itself to professional coding standards. Drupal is a top-notch CMS. It is a plain installation that comes with a ton of additional modules that have some interesting features like forums, user blogs, OpenID, profiles, and more. It offers more than 30,000+ extendable modules as well as 2,000+ individual and unique themes that will help to build the site exactly as you want. Drupal is the CMS that has a significantly large, active user community. Thousands of users and members participate daily in forum discussions which means that finding support for Drupal is really not a problem if you are stuck with a problem.

Key Features:

• custom user post creation and management system.
• User management with advanced access and control.
• A top-notch secure system for your website.
• Support for multilingual websites around the world.

7. Squarespace

Squarespace is one of the Best CMS for building a website quickly. If you are looking for a website with integrated CMS online as fast as possible, try Squarespace. This all-in-one CMS tool, Squarespace expedites the process of website launch with its rich library of customizable website templates. 

In Squarespace, you can choose a website template based on the theme you're building. It includes various options for eCommerce, business, a professional portfolio, a community site, or a basic blog. You can edit the website themes to your preference by changing the layout, colouring, branding, and other elements. You also have an option to add custom CSS if you need to make some typical styling changes.

Key Features:

• 1000+ website templates available
• Powerful inline page editor.
• Add content directly from the native mobile app.
• No local video hosting library available but can be embedded from other sites

8. Weebly

Weebly is a CMS that allows anybody to build a website quickly and with ease. It is a free website builder, and very simple to use. You can build a beautiful website in a very small period of time without having coding experience. Weebly allows you to create business websites, e-commerce websites, blogs, or generic interest websites.

Weebly gives you full control over the HTML and CSS access which does not restrict you in how you want to design your website. If you have a developer with moderate coding experience, you can create any design you prefer for your website.

9. Magento

Just like WordPress, Magento is a free open-source eCommerce platform. You can purchase a custom domain and install Magento on your hosting servers. The main focus of Magento is eCommerce only and has the ability to handle large brands and enterprise-level businesses. 

With reference to other popular open-source CMS, hosting providers and installation options for Magento can get tricky at times. New to Magento can find it hard to get acquainted with the system.

.Key Features:

• Blogging and eCommerce functionality
• SEO Friendly tool
• Customizable E-commerce website
• Regards to user-friendliness, Magento may require a developer’s assistance

10. Impresspages

ImpressPages is not a famous CMS. However, its blogging tool is one of the best in the market we’ve seen so far. ImpressPages editor is clean and equipped with a modern interface. In this CMS, you will be able to add some elements without extensions – such as maps and forms. It has many other in-built modules readily available for users.

ImpressPages also includes a responsive drag-and-drop builder that helps in creating the pages with ease and quickly. Other than this you can customize the CMS using plugins and themes.

Key Features:

• Simple and modern interface that’s easy to use.
• Drag-and-drop page builder for content creation.
• Access to a huge number of plugins and themes.
• Powerful page editor with some advanced functionality.

Conclusion

We hope you have liked this blog and all the best in choosing the right CMS for your business. If you have any query that remains unanswered, feel free to contact us. We are one of the leading website development agencies in Pune providing quality  CMS development services at a very reasonable price.

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