Today’s websites commonly employ Content Management Systems (CMS) instead of plain HTML, allowing non-programmers to make ad-hoc updates to content on the site. When building a site equipped with CMS, a big question for website developers is, “Which CMS do I use?” The CTP interactive team has some opinions on the matter, which I’ll outline here. Before we start looking at the contestants, let’s lay out some ground-rules.

Open Source Only!
This isn’t just because we like free software. Open source may be free, but free can also mean that there is a large user community both supporting and complaining about said software.

LAMP! (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)
We love LAMP! Not just because it’s the #1 server technology, but because it offers tons of advanced features and optimizations.

Now that we have that sorted out, let’s take a look at the contestants. (more…)