Creating a blog or a high-traffic eCommerce site? There is an easier way today to create your content, publish them when you wish and easily search for previous posts without having to do all these manually.

Content Management Systems or CMS’s help you maintain and create a website that can be updated as often as every couple of minutes every day.

Several years ago, you will need an HTML developer to update your web contents and then you have to build things from scratch, like your shopping cart, your photo gallery, your emailer etc. Now, you just have to trust one content management system to do that for you.

If you are going with iPage, you have these three fabulous options to choose from.

Option #1: WordPress

Want to know why WordPress is the world’s most preferred content management system? Read on below:

Fully compliant to the W3C standards so that you don’t have to think too much about browser compatibility, efficiency in loading pages and the overall performance of your site

Quick installation and easy to use, even for first time users

Customizable WordPress templates

Rich choices in paid and FREE templates for you to choose from

Spam protection built in

Allows multiple authors to edit your content

Allows comments for your site’s visitors so that you can further enrich the process

Lots of plugins available due to the very active WordPress developer community

Option #2: Drupal

Here are the strong points of Drupal, another content management system that you can use with iPage:

Advanced search mechanism

Statistics for logging your site’s activities already implemented

Multi-level menu for your site

Multi-site support, so you can control multiple websites from a single Drupal dashboard

User profiles are given so that you know which person changed what.

Workflow tools to help you better communicate to your team how you want your website to function.

Themes that can be customized, not just your color scheme but also how you configure the user interface.

At some point, it is a matter of preferences when you are faced with multiple content management system options.

Option #3: Joomla

Your third option is Joomla. While quite resource intensive (it can be heavy on the database side), a lot of people still prefer Joomla because of the following reasons:

Language manager. You can easily localize the contents of your site via this feature. Even your dashboard for your administrators can support multiple languages.

Banner management. You need to earn clicks and hits via web ads and banners are the major form of advertisement on websites today. With Joomla, you can have multiple banners per campaign and you can insert special URL’s for tracking you ads activities.

Create polls for your users and visitors for a more interactive web site feel.

Media manager – helps you organize your file types.

Built in help system from tutorials regarding web templates to

CMS and iPage – additional cost?

There is no additional cost to the use of these CMS’s on iPage. These are all open source tools that you can download from their original site. You just have to install it. There is also no additional charge from iPage if a site is using a CMS to manage its content.