Want To Build A Site Like WIRED? Use Umbraco CMS

When planning a website, it’s crucial that it has a clean, professional-looking design which is easy to navigate and most importantly is built using a robust system.

Speed and Security Are Key

Website speed is also central to the success of a company’s online business. Not only will a slow web page be a turnoff to online customers, but Google can also penalise your ranking positions if you have a sluggish page load speed.

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What Is Sitefinity CMS?

Sitefinity is a content management system (CMS) designed and developed by Telerik, a multinational software vendor with several blue chip clients.

What is content management?

It’s basically a system that houses and maintains online content, ranging from a simple blog right up to fully featured web portals and E-commerce websites. All the various content strands that make up a web presence - blogs, websites, articles and other media - are controlled within the CMS.

A popular example of a CMS is Wordpress, which started life as a blogging platform and has broadened its functionality to provide static page websites and - through the use of add-ons (plug-ins) it can provide more specific functions such as membership and commerce sites.

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Magento Vs. Prestashop - Which Shopping Cart Is Better?

Currently, Magento and Prestashop are the two most popular open source shopping carts. Launched in 2008 Magento powers over one third of online stores. Released one year earlier Prestashop is the platform of choice for 150,000+ online stores and its popularity seems to be growing.

If we compared these two shopping carts feature by feature, they would seem very similar one to another. However, there are subtle, but important differences, which set these two shopping carts apart.

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Ghost Blogging Platform

There are plenty of blogging platforms out on the web today. A blogging platform is a service that allows you to post content in a manner of a journal, much like WordPress, Squarspace, Blogger, or even Live Journal. A lot of these blogging platforms are better recognized and known more than others. There is one blogging platform that proves to be interesting, and isn’t very well known, and that platform is simply called “Ghost”. Ghost solely focuses on publishing while keeping a simple yet sleek design for those web designers. It’s free to use and free to download, but it does have a service you can pay for that includes hosting and some advertisement. But let’s take a look at what this service truly has to offer.

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Five CMS Platforms

Today we are going to be looking five CMS platforms that are free to use and available to you. So you might be asking to yourself, “what is a CMS platform?”. Well to put simply, CMS stands for Content Management System. This allows for users to easily modify their blogs or sites with not a lot of coding experience. However in this case, these are platforms that allow people to code and design their own themes and workable workstations for the applications usage. I was going to make this a top 5 kind of thing, but I realized that would only make people choose between what the top three were. So I thought telling you five would give you some variety to go check them out. I hope you find this somewhat useful, and have a nice day.

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