When it comes to creating a large, content rich site, it is important to know that you have many tools available to you, not just the popular brands that get all the press hype. Unfortunately, the plethora of CMS options only makes choosing one that much harder. This complexity compounded by all the myths that come along with content management are enough to persuade you into giving up and dropping your plans altogether. Many have the misconception that they cannot succeed with a CMS due to fears of needing to be a proficient web programmer. While this is true with some programs, most content management systems are easy to use and require no programming skills at all. This is definitely the case with Xoops, a powerful CMS on the rise.
What Can Xoops Do?
Xoops is the ideal CMS for a wide range of situations. It makes a viable tool for creating dynamic websites or community sites big or small for informational or business matters. Whether it is a blog or corporate intranet site, Xoops can help you get it up and running efficiently. Perhaps the best thing about this CMS is that it is open-source software free to download, use and modify. This means that if you have your own in-house team, you can develop modules and extensions to greatly enhance its core functionality.
Flexible and Highly Extensible
The Xoops framework is very flexible and allows you to use the platform in a variety of ways. For example, you can choose to install a lite Xoops instance, which is recommended for smaller personal blogs or journals. Though a more compact version with less features, a lite installation includes a news module that is integrated with the core framework and serves great purpose for such projects. The standard version is best suited for medium sized sites as it allows you to make use of additional modules such as Forum, Web Links and Download. These modules will go a long way in creating a community friendly environment that encourages interaction among your site members and visitors. A larger, content-rich e-commerce site can thrive from customize modules, which are widely available both free and commercially through third-party developers. These additions include security modules that provide firewall and anti-virus protection, customized HTML editors and word processing modules, backup and restore modules, diagnostic modules and several more.
Consider Xoops for Your Project
Xoops is becoming increasingly popular at a rapid rate, serving as a worthy competition to popular open-source content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal and Mambo. With all the modules and extensions its supports, this is clearly one of the most extensible out of the whole bunch. Although having a little technical abilities will help your efforts in terms of customization, Xoops delivers out of the box functionality that allows anyone to have success creating and maintaining a content-rich site. This CMS puts all the tools you need to create forums, news items, blogs, and wikis right at your finger tips.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am
This is really a very easy-to-use CMS which requires absolutely no programming skills to deal with it. I’ve been using Xoops for over a year now and I am proud to call myself a Xoopsfan now
multiplied by a very friendly community Xoops is one of the best you can come accross.
January 10th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Are there any new companies selling antivirus firewall solutions? The old ones are not that good