10 Best free open source Content Management systems (CMS) 2012

In this heavily expanding digital age creating a highly modern, stylish and easily customizable website is a rage, fashion and more importantly a definite need. Let it be a small enterprise or large scale industry every firm has its own website popping out online.

The common question that rises is the difficulties of coding and programming that consumes lots of time and money.

However, now creating website is a very easy task as there are many open source CMS platforms made available of which many may be exceedingly complicated or may be simply easy-to-use. Thus, in this article best free open source CMS 2012 we have listed CMS’s that are well known, easy to use and more significantly open source CMS.

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Here is a list of a  Content Management System (CMS) to build your website, but what is exactly  Content Management System ?Content Management System (CMS)  is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. Here is the Top 20 Open Source CMS tools out there and their current market share. There are currently over 20,000 people that have the add-on installed and are reporting this data. Keep in mind that the statistics are of course only a snapshot of the past 30 days and only cover roughly 1% of the entire web.

How much will it cost?”

That’s the first question I get asked by a prospect.

“How much will it cost?”

That’s the last question I get asked by a prospect.

I’ve asked it. I bet you’ve asked it.

It’s a fair question; after all, you’ve got to make smart investments in your business and you can’t jump into a project blindly. But asking how much a website costs is a bit like calling your contractor and saying, “I want you to build me a house. How much will it cost?” He’d look at your cross-eyed for a while and then ask you a million questions about how many rooms, what type of flooring, whether you’ve already purchased the land or not… all of which have very real parallels when it comes to building a website.

To make matters worse, there can be a huge gap between the costs you get from different developers. Why is one offering a website for $500 and another asking for $5,000? Is one stupid, or the other a scam artist? How’s a person to make a smart decision?

bitly is the easiest and most fun way to save, share and discover links from around the web. We call these links bitmarks, and you can use bitly to remember, curate and share them.

bitly is available via our website, browser extensions, mobile web, and numerous third-party tools integrated with our open public API. bitly also powers more than 10,000 custom short URLs and offers an enterprise analytics platform that helps web publishers and brands grow their social media traffic.

When we launched Google’s URL shortener externally back in September, there was no accompanying API to allow people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages. However, we said that we were working on one, and today we're happy to announce that we’ve launched the goo.gl API in Google Code Labs. The documentation can be found on the Google Code site, with example code in the Getting Started section. 

With this API, developers are able to programmatically access all of the fast, sleek goo.gl goodness that we currently provide via the web interface. You can shorten and expand URLs using the API, as well as fetch your history and analytics. You could use these features for a wide variety of applications, enabling behaviors ranging from auto-shortening within Twitter or Google Buzz clients to running regular jobs that monitor your usage statistics and traffic patterns. You can check out the Google APIs console to get started.

We’re very excited to be able to offer you this API to access one of the fastest URL shorteners out there. We’re continuing to work on several usability improvements and to make our auto-detection of spammy or malicious content even more robust. We hope that with the new API, you’ll find goo.gl to be even more useful in your future shortening endeavors! If you’re an application developer, check out the goo.gl API documentation and see how it looks.

By Ben D’Angelo, URL Shortener Team
at 1/10/2011 01:52:00 PM

WebStarts is a user friendly website design tool. The application utilizes a drag and drop interface that makes it as simple as possible. Users can drag and drop video clips, photos and other content directly on the page. The user sees the page as they build it so they never have to jump back and forth or refresh to view the most recent version. WebStarts offers hosting and a domain name. Users can also add a custom domain if they prefer. Custom email addresses are available with domain names. Users can add other content, such as a forum or web form and ecommerce tools. The application has also added member’s only pages that allow users to limit access to certain content.

Building a website has never been easierBuilding a website on Weebly is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Our drag & drop website builder makes it dead simple to create a powerful, professional website without any technical skills required. Over 6 million people and small businesses have joined Weebly to build their online presence.

Content elements (like text, photos, maps, and videos) are added to your website by simply dragging & dropping them into place. Text is edited just like in a word processor. Building your website is done in real time, right from within your web browser. There's absolutely nothing to install and no upgrades to worry about.

Check out our quick demo video to see why you’ll love Weebly:

Today, it seems that everyone has a website, including businesses, individuals and even babies! Due to the high demand of people wanting to create their own websites, there has been a spike in the number of companies that offer free website building tools. One of the newer companies to offer users a “free” website builder” is Wix.com. After attempting to build a website on Wix, this is what I have gathered about the site      and its website building program.