Evaluation of Content Management Systems Performance
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MAITANMI Olusola
Publication Type: Journal article
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Abstract
There are many web-authoring software like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, which are being used to develop and maintain websites. These web-authoring software are becoming inadequate because websites are becoming more dynamic with different contents types. Content Management Systems (CMS) evolved as an alternative to such web-authoring tools because it escapes the burden of coding and enhances easy update of content. CMSs are both proprietary and open source, but due to cost, open source CMSs are preferred. Though, there are a huge number of open sources CMS available in public domain, it may be difficult to decide which of these would best suit a particular situation and yield best return on investment(ROI). Thus, this research work is aimed at evaluating some common CMSs in order to determine their usability. The problems that were addressed include selecting the right CMS based on some defined parameters, assessing ROI of the CMSs with respect to the needs of the content providers. Literature and industry research review of CMS was examined; extensive literature was carried out on the existing work on the subject matter to consider some CMS which were chosen based on popularity. A web-based survey was conducted using an online questionnaire. The responses were quantitatively analyzed using some statistical techniques. Considering a number of constraints in websites developments using CMS, report shows that joomla has the highest frequency of users, contents determine the choice of CMS while all CMS’s ROI can be measured either tangible or intangible.