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In our "Basic" Linux web hosting plan and above, there is a big choice of site builders, content management systems, galleries and blog software available to build your website for you. See FREE hosting extras.
A favourite is WordPress, listed under Blogs. The blog posts and comments can be disabled and many web pages in categories and sub categories can be added. Example of a WordPress website where blog and comments are disabled is at www.webdesigndiy.com.au
Each of the following site builder software systems has its own website with demos plus a large supporting community with forums. There are hundreds of "themes" with various features available.
- BLOGS
- b2evolution
blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
http://b2evolution.net/
- Nucleus
A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
http://nucleuscms.org/
- WordPress
WordPress is a blogging software with a focus on ease of use, elegance, performance, and standards with a huge selection of themes and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/
- CONTENT MANAGEMENT
- Drupal
An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
http://drupal.org/
- Geeklog
A portal system with a wide range of modules.
http://www.geeklog.net/
- Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
http://www.joomla.org/
- Mambo Open Source
A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
http://www.mambo-foundation.org/
- PHP-Nuke
One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
http://www.phpnuke.org/
- phpWCMS
phpWCMS is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers and web developers too.
http://www.phpwcms.de/
- phpWebSite
Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/
- Post-Nuke
A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an allround tool.
http://www.postnuke.com/
- Siteframe
A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
http://siteframe.org/
- TYPO3
A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
http://siteframe.org/
- Xoops
A very popular advanced portal system.
http://www.xoops.org/
- SITE BUILDERS
- Soholaunch Pro Edition
From basic, informational websites to robust e-business applications, this script vastly simplifies the creation and management of cutting-edge internet solutions. It installs at the end-users web site and empowers novices and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development and management process unmatched by any other software product.
http://www.soholaunch.com/
- Templates Express
Use Templates Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar will be collected during installation and placed into the installed template in the appropriate locations.
- WIKI
- TikiWiki
TikiWiki is designed to be an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
http://www.tikiwiki.org/
- PhpWiki
PhpWiki is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
You just go into your control panel and click Softaculous (under Software Services) — then select any one of the above.
Each one will take one of your available MySQL databases, so before you install too many, check how many databases are available in your hosting plan and maybe delete any installations you don't need.
With WordPress you can change your "theme" and try out new ones without losing any of your web pages.
There is a facility in PHPAdmin to backup and download your databases.
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