Category: Content Management System (CMS)

SharePoint

Sharepoint is an enterprise-level content management system developed by Microsoft. Type: Fee-based licensed software Cost: Depending on amount of users price varies from $12,000-14,000 in software costs, $7,500-250,000 in user licenses, and $15,000-200,000 in implementation, intranet planning and launch costs. Features: The software package offers intranet portals, website management, data storage management and analytics. Pros: …

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Site Configuration

This is a general term that refers to how sites are configured using a Content Management System. For example under Drupal’s admin interface these areas are a part of ‘site configuration’: administration menu, content authoring, development, media, people, regional and language, search and metadata, system, user interface, web services. These are some of the aspects …

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SiteCore

This is a content management system geared towards higher, enterprise-level customers. Type: .net based and pay per server, fee-based licensed software Cost: SiteCore’s licensing fee starts at $40,000 and is another $8,000 for following years. The implementation cost starts at $65,000, and support and other licensing fees costs around $10,000 ongoing each year. Features: The …

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WordPress

WordPress.com is a hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that lets you build a website using WordPress building blocks. However, whereas WordPress.org is open-source software and can be hosted anywhere, WordPress.com is built on the WordPress.org framework but comes with managed hosting for an easier-to-run site. If that sounds limiting, though, you’ll be surprised. When asking yourself, …

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WYSIWYG

This stands for “What you See Is What You Get” and refers to a web editor that allows you to make edits without having to know HTML or other types of code. Popular WYSIWYG editors include TinyMCE and CKEditor. Some editors can be used by both Drupal and WordPress.