Usage Statistics and Market Share of Content Management Systems for Websites. CMS Critic - Content Management Reviews. Designing for content management systems. Advertisement Designing and indeed front-end development for a website that will have content edited by non-technical users poses some problems over and above those you will encounter when developing a site where you have full control over the output mark-up.
However, most clients these days want to be able to manage their own content, so most designers will find that some, if not all, of their designs end up as templates in some kind of CMS. Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal – Should you look outside the big 3? Whenever someone decides to launch a website, or hired to do so for a client, he’s given three broad choices which will define how they’ll proceed: static HTML, a CMS or Flash.
The former being practically dead due to inflexibility and the latter being not only inflexible, but extremely costly to produce, the CMS route seems a dead end; more specifically, the Open Source CMS route. Dead end it is. Try raising the simple, innocuous question “Which CMS should I chose for my site?” On any public forum and a war seems to spring right out of nowhere.
The fighting fractions are what I usually call The Big Three: Drupal, Joomla! ExpressionEngine - Publish Your Universe! Content Management Systems List.