WordPress is undoubtly the most used Content Management System in the web today. Actually it was developed for personal blogging purpose and latter on people started using it as CMS . Its simplicity, plugins availability has made it so popular among the programmers and designers that most of the sites are now days powered by WordPress. And I myself is one of the who uses it from blogging to CMS.
Here, I am going to list top 5 sites which uses WordPress as CMS. This is my personal list. What is yours?
The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions.
This is the online Magazine from the Wall Street Journal.
2. National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Society is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. The National Geographic Magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. And this is the dutch version which uses wordpress as CMS.
3. Mozilla Labs
Mozilla is one of the most used browser in the internet.This is the official site of mozilla which uses WordPress to showcase its new projects in a way that is visually appealing and easy to navigate.
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units. It is also the first and oldest corporation in the United States. This university uses WordPress to power the Harvard Gazette’s entire website.
Easton Sports, Inc. is a privately owned manufacturer, marketer and distributor of sporting equipment, headquartered in Van Nuys, California.
This is the official site of the Easton Hockey Company and is powered by Wordpress.
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Website is the best online platform for the promotion of business or services. So the greatest necessity of website is its design. Design needs to be eye catchy and attractive enough so that the visitors stop by to browse through your site. A visitor hardly stays on a website for less than 5 seconds or so if the design is not catchy. So a web designer has to be careful enough to turn the first impression of the site into a good one. Acquiring designing skill is very important for a beginner which can be developed and polished with rigorous practice.
The web layouts, the look and feel of the website as well as many other things are taken into consideration for website designing. A proper knowledge and skill to use the web designing tools are essential for any web designer.
I was searching for a WordPress theme for a magazine and found this one .I like this theme .The color combination is cool .The contends are well managed .The featured news section is very attractive. I think this theme is suitable for a complete online Magazine .
This theme is provided by studiopress.
It costs $59.95
Click here to see the demo
You can purchase this theme from studiopress
The black color combination of the page is very attractive. This theme is suitable for those who want to do photo blogging or anything related to photography and designs.
It costs $59.95
You can purchase this theme from studiopress
The motto of jQuery is “write less, do more” and it does exactly the same. Here is was jquery.com says about jQuery:
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Some of the excellent features of jQuery are:
- It’s fast.
- It’s concise.
- It’s free and open source.
- It’s cross-browser (support all the web browsers).
- Moreover, it’s easy to learn and work with.
Google, Dell, Digg, Technorati, Mozilla, Wordpress, Drupal and many more are using jQuery. So, why shouldn’t we?
Here are some links containing excellent tutorial to start up with jQuery.
1) http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery
2) http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/jquerylab.aspx
I like learning through examples. The above tutorial links do exactly the same. So, enjoy jQuery.
Cheers,
Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
You can add the toolbar to wordpress, blogger, typepad, drupal, joomla, ning, vBulletin, and even in your custom website as well.
Benefits
- Increase page views and time on site
- Increase content sharing with the social tools available
- Enrich your content and increase communication
Here is a list of Applications available in wibiya toobar (there are more applications than the list below):
- Search (add search box in the toolbar)
- Google Translation (translate your page with google translation)
- Latest posts (view latest posts from the toolbar)
- Random posts (view random posts)
- Live notifications (broadcast alerts, messages, news and more to all your visitors)
- Real time users (display real time stats of your website including number of online users, popular pages and a dynamic geolocaion user map)
- Navigation links (create a custom navigation menu or button that make it easier for your visitors to reach different pages)
- Subscribe (add rss subscription button)
- Sharing tools (facebook, twitter, email, digg, stumbleupon, yahoo! buzz, myspace and more)
- Facebook community (create your own website community with facebook connect in just one click)
- Twitter dashboard (post tweets from website, latest tweets, twitter search, and more)
- Facebook fan page (bring your fan page to your website and grow the number of fans)
- Photo gallery (display your flickr photogallery in your website)
- Youtube channel (display your youtube video gallery in your website)
You can view the demo of the toolbar in the wibiya homepage itself.
Use wibiya toolbar, make your site more popular, interactive and cool. ;)
Cheers,
Time and again while working on many web projects I’m sometime in dilemma to choose platform for the development. There’re many open source CMS tools that can be used to deploy the site. I can’t say which one is best one because each one has their own sets of features/functionalities. Here are my picks.
1. Wordpress
WordPress is now the most popular open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.
It is being used by more than 202 million websites worldwide.
Quick Info about WP
- Developer(s):Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren, Donncha O Caoimh
- Latest version:2.9.1
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Platform:PHP
- Type: Weblog software/CMS
- Size:zip file — 2.2 MB
- Official Website:wordpress.org
Click here to download.
2. Joomla
Joomla is one of the most popular open source content management system (CMS), which enables us to build Web sites and powerful online applications. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
Quick Info about Joomla
- Developer(s):The Joomla Core Team
- Latest version:Joomla! 1.5.x
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Size:6.4 MB
- Type:CMS software
- Website:www.joomla.org/
Click here to download
3. Drupal
Drupal is another very popular free and open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.Drupal allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Quick Info about Drupal
- Developer(s):Dries Buytaert
- Latest version:Drupal 6.15
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Size:1 MB
- Type:CMS software
- Website:drupal.org
Click here to download
4. MODx
MODx is another popular free, open source content management system and web application framework for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. MODx is licensed under the GPL. MODx is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.
Quick Info about MODx
- Developer(s):MODx team
- Latest version:Evolution 1.0.2
- Platform:PHP
- Operating system:Cross-platform
- Type: Content Management System
- Size:modx-1.0.2.zip – 3.6 MB
- Website:modxcms.com
Click here to download
5. DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke is leading web content management system (CMS) and application development framework for Microsoft .NET.It is written in VB.NET and distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and a Professional Edition commercial license
Quick Info about DotNetNuke
- Developer(s):DotNetNuke Corporation
- Latest version:DotNetNuke Community Edition
- Platform:ASP.NET / Microsoft Windows / SQL Server
- Type: Content Management System
- Website:DotNetNuke.com
Click here to download
[Disclosure: My Favorite pick is WordPress.]
This Wordpress theme is specially designed for business company and corporate houses. The theme looks simple and cool. The color is selected is such that it doesn’t look to strong or i can say that its mild color. The contents are well managed.
This theme is provided by studiopress
Price:$59.95
Click here to download the theme.
Enjoy it.
1. Woothemes
You can find varieties of wordpress themes in this site . It offers both free and pay themes.
2. Top WP Themes
This topwpthemes posts a free wordpress theme everyday. You can find a lots of different types of theme in its archive.
This site updates its free daily and there are varieties of category ,class and links to download the free theme.
4. Skinpress
This site offers both free and premium wordpress themes .You can find theme for other CMS also . The site contains lots of theme which may interest you too.
5. WP Skins
It also offers both free and premium wordpress themes
you can find lots of free themes in this site.
wordpress.org is the one of the best site to find free Wordpress theme in the web. There are lots of updates and archive in this site . I always enjoy surfing this site.
This is free wordpress theme provided by woothemes.This theme is suitable for people who are regular or not regular blogger. The theme is very clean and simple . I like the color combination and layout of the page.
Features are
- Clear & concise grid-based design
- Integrated banner ad management
- Widgetized sidebar, with some Bueno-specific custom widgets
- 7 different colour schemes to choose from
Click here to download the theme.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
- Author: Donncha O Caoimh
- Click here to download the plugins
Pagination is a mechanism which provides users with additional navigation options for browsing through single parts of the given article. Parts of the article are usually referred to by numbers, hints, arrows as well as “previous” and “next”-buttons.You can use this plugins to add pagination in your blog .This plugin handles the pagination with a much more organized way.
- Author: Ali Sipahioglu
- Click here to download the plugins
3. Advertisements within post body
The plugin is VERY useful to everyone need to add AdSense or other advertising code in the post body (before, after or in the middle of them). The plugin injects the code without modify the theme used and is “theme independent”, so you can change the theme and the custom code you added won’t stop to display.
- Author: Satollo
- Click here to download the plugins
4. I Like This
Some time we want to find how many people like our article or dislike .For the bloggers point of view it’s great to see these things .This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of comment it and also displays total the number of people who likes that.
- Author: Benoit “LeBen” Burgener
- Click here to download the plugin
5. Authors Widget
The authors widget is a good way to list the authors of your blog with a link to a page listing all of the their posts.It is useful in a multi-author blog, where you want to have the list in the sidemenu.
- Author: Gavriel Fleischer
- Click here to download the plugin
