CMS Jam Content Management Systems: News and Resources

Image via Wikipedia Acquia just announced that they will be offering Drupal, the extremely popular free open source CMS, as a subscription-based service. In other words, for a price. What??? Now wait, this isn’t a scam, and it’s a respected way of doing things. RedHat has been offering its version of Linux for a fee for years. What this really means, is that you will get SERVICE and SUPPORT for a price, and that’s never a bad thing - especially with something as complex as Drupal.

And Drupal IS complex. In fact, it’s why I don’t recommend it very often… Continue reading

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… Continue reading