Free Content Management Systems

As you might imagine, content management is a big problem for many Web sites. There are many products on the market that attempt to solve this problem so that you don’t have to write your own software to manage your Web site’s content. There are also some free applications that attempt to solve this problem as well. Rather than writing your own application to manage the content on your site, it may make sense to use one of the existing packages to save yourself some time.

This is by no means a complete list of these systems. There are probably hundreds of these types of products available today. I’m only going to discuss a few of the most popular ones. One important thing to remember is that once you choose a ...

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