Many webmasters, when first setting things up, are faced with one of the most critical decisions one can make, that is, which CMS to use? There are many out there, all with their respective pros and cons. Out of the jungle, we continue to bring you our valuable reviews so you don't waste time juggling between the dozens of existing solutions. Today we're evaluating another heavy lifter: Movable Type.

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Well, well, well… Look who's our guest today. Nobody else than the most famous blogging platform, Mr. WordPress itself. It comes to us with a very solid reputation and an impressive installed base. But are these enough to justify the « best blogging solution ever » tag? That's exactly what we're going to see in our review.

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When you take a "forty-thousand feet" look at the open-source CMS products, you can rapidly identify two big categories. On one side, you find the lightweight and the middle-class clients with the basic content management features that will satisfy 90% of the users. On the other side, you find some heavy contenders, loaded with tons of functionalities and enough horsepower to fuel a large corporation's information framework. Today's candidate, CMS made simple (CMSMS, in short), belongs to the first category, and does its job pretty well.

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Here we are at the dawn of a new week. Today is tuesday (yesterday was an official day off in Belgium, hence the "no article" article...), and we start the second half of our 10-article series over open-source CMSes. Last week, we've been through Joomla!, Drupal, Typo3, DotClear, TextPattern and Plone. This week, we have 5 more platforms to review, and we'll start by MODx.

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In our series of CMS Week articles, the system we're reviewing today, Plone, is a kind of special animal. First, it's not everybody's CMS — understand: it will not be easily tamed. Second, it won't get satisfied with a basic PHP/MySQL environment. It'll require more than that: Python and Zope, to be exact. So, is it worth learning Python? (because you'll have to!) Let's find out.

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Gosh, already Friday? Time flies! We're nearly at the middle of our CMS Week article series. On the menu today, we have another « flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system, designed to help overcome hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages » (that's what the website says): TextPattern. Ready for your daily CMS dose? Let's go.

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As we continue our CMS Week article series, we stop today on a particular case: DotClear. Why is it particular? Because DotClear is not a full-featured CMS, strictly speaking — it's rather a blog engine with enhanced content management capabilities. And also, because it's the motor that powers our own website.

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Depending on feature richness and modularity, a content management system can be an investment not affordable for many - so the idea of looking for cheaper or even free alternatives comes to mind. There is actually a bunch of — more or less mature — solutions under Open Source or freeware licenses. Today we're reviewing Typo3, a powerful open-source solution.

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The problem with CMS is the more seamless they become, the harder they get to modify should they not do exactly what you want. Furthermore, fully featured CMS tent to bloat and run your server harder. As a Web Developer, you don't need a nice installer and could be quite happy editing a configuration file rather that clicking check boxes to get what you want. However, it's nice to offer both possibilities to the end user. Are you ready to meet Drupal?.

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Joomla! is one of the most popular CMS. On the one hand, it's definitely not as easy to set up as a personal blog on any free blogging platform, but on the other hand, it grants you total control on the way your website is displayed, managed and updated. And in case you need help, Joomla! features a highly detailed help section on its website which can bring light on any problem you may have during installation and configuration.

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These last 24 months, the blog has become a complete new way of communication. In addition to traditional information channels such as newspapers, radio and television, the web 2.0-powered internet enables a more modern, rapid information delivery. Blogging, today, is considered as natural as speaking or chatting.

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