CMS Jam Content Management Systems: News and Resources

In case you’ve been living under a CMS rock, I want to make sure you know about the best demo site that ever lived - OpenSourceCMS. This site has a fairly extensive array of open source (free) CMS packages already installed, and you can play with (test) every one of them. You can login as an admin and do whatever you want to them, and then see what the front end results of your test are. Don’t worry about breaking anything (and don’t bother spamming). Every two hours, all the systems are wiped clean and started fresh, so no damage or change is ever permanent. (You can see the countdown to the demo refresh at the top of the left menu bar, so you always know how long you have to test a system before it gets wiped clean).

OpenSourceCMS gives you the opportunity to try out a lot of different systems, and determine which best meets your needs. It was an amazing concept when the site first launched, and it remains an amazing concept even today. Not every CMS is installed there. If it’s not open source, and based on PHP/MySQL, you won’t find it there. In addition, there may be some open source, PHP/MySQL CMS’s that aren’t there either, for one reason or another. But you will have the chance to try out some of the very best and most popular, including CMS’s such as Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Xoops, Typo3, CMS Made Simple, as well as many other “flavors” of systems, such as blogs, wikis, forums, and groupware.

There’s a very good chance you’ll find just what you need by trying out the demos at OpenSourceCMS. Keep that site in your list of bookmarks, as you may find yourself going back to it from time to time, especially if you decide to check out some of the CMS’s you hear about here and elsewhere.