A content management system CMS is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. First of all, even before you decide which Content Management System to use, you have to decide if you need a CMS in the first place? You should have good enough reasons to use a CMS for developing your new website. Planning everything from the start is almost always a good idea. The more positive answers you have for the above questions, the more it is clear that you need a Content Management System for developing your website. Now the main question is which CMS to use for your development? Deciding which CMS to use depends on the type of website you want to create, development platform. NET or PHP you are comfortable with and if you want a paid or open-source solution. Although there are lots of good CMSs out there worth a look, we have curated a list of top. NET based CMS that you can use to create your website or web application. If you are a. NET developer, you can have a look at these options to find out which suits you best for your current project. DotNetNuke DNN DNN, formerly known as DotNetNuke is an open, extensible, secure, and scalable content management system powering over 800,000 websites worldwide. DNN is one of the most well-known and popular open source CMS based on Microsoft. The DNN Platform can be used as a content management system as well as an application development framework. It can be used to quickly create and deploy rich, modular and highly interactive websites and web applications. Strong Points: Stable and Mature, Ease of Install, Strong Community, Lots of options for themes and plugins. NET platform on premise or in the cloud. It supports mobile websites, marketing automation, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites and translation management, multisite management and it ships with 70 modules, 400 configurable Web parts and source code available. Kentico CMS is a highly configurable platform that can be easily modified and extended so that it fits your client needs. Updating your website with Kentico CMS is really intuitive. All pages are organized in a tree hierarchy that reflects the site navigation, so you can easily find the page you want to edit. Kentico can easily handle small to enterprise level websites. Strong Points: Stable and Mature, Ease of Install, Highly Flexible and Scalable, Strong Community, 400+ built-in web parts, Options for plugins. Umbraco is easy to learn and use, making it perfect for web designers, developers and content creators alike. Umbraco is easy to use, simple to customize, and robust enough to run the largest sites such as wired. NET architecture, and active community make it the best choice for web CMS. Umbraco supports both MVC and WebForms. One thing that goes against it is the extra efforts to get started because it is designed with developers in mind. Strong Points: Open Source, Open API, Stable and Mature, Ease of Install, Highly Flexible and Scalable, Strong Community, Options for plugins. Licenses: Free Open Source with options for paid support and add-ons. Sitefinity Sitefinity CMS is the next generation web content management system for creating compelling websites, intranets, portals and blogs. It offers many enterprise features, and simple, easy-to-use online administration for managing your website. The new revolutionary User Interface is very task oriented and simplifies the user interaction with the system. The Sitefinity CMS has been developed by Telerik, a team responsible for some great solutions such as RadControls. NET standards such as MasterPages and Controls for template management all of which makes setting up the front end of the site straight forward. Strong Points: Easy to Install and use, Supports Responsive Design and Mobile Website Development, Documentation and Support. If you can make an ASP. NET UserControl then you already know how to implement a feature. When it comes to developing your own applications, many people prefer mojoPortal because it can act as a starter kit for advanced. NET sites or portals. It is easy to learn and very simple to use. It also has a very strong community which makes troubleshooting extremely simple. Strong Points: Open Source, Ease to Install and Use, Strong Community Support, Add-ons. Licenses: Free Open Source with options for paid add-ons. Other Options Other popular Content Management System you can consider for your development are listed below. Still we have to choose these tools with care and planning as selecting the at the start of a project makes the process easier. Please leave your comments, suggestions and feedback in the comments section below. I write posts for our company blog which are mostly about providing helpful tips, advice, and insights related to web design, web development, web technologies etc. I love reading articles and I like to keep myself updated with latest tech and business related news. ChrisAWarner 29-Jan-14 6:28 Thanks for writing this article, Gaurav. I'm curious why its titled top 5 cms, based on what criteria, for whom? I think for a large enterprise, for instance, those don't capture the top 5. Where can the CMS publish content? How removed from the presentation layer is the content itself? Can the same content be easily published to web, mobile, print, ad campaigns, etc? Automated translation for multi-language support? Chris · Thanks for your feedbacks on the article, Chris. The post was not focused on CMS for large enterprise applications. We were trying to review CMS that can be used to create all type of websites and as we were only reviewing ASP. NET based CMS, we had to leave out some very popular CMS that are built on other platforms. I believe that more and more CMS these days are trying to provide support for mobile platform and online marketing. Social media integration into the CMS is also a norm these days. Thanks, Gaurav · 1.
