CMS plays a great role
in ecommerce business. Getting your first website up and running is easy. But
it is very important that your ecommerce website looks good and professional.
CMS stands for content management system. And in ecommerce you can say it as
product management system. You can add, edit or organize products easily. There
are many cms platforms available at market but here we will discuss about top 3
content management systems:
o
Wordpress
o
Drupal
o
Magento
Wordpress: Wordpress is most popular CMS in world. It has
thousand of plugins which makes it convenient and popular. The main
advantage that Wordpress holds is its simplicity and it’s so user-friendly
interface. It provides a large number of open source themes that can be easily
customized and integrated into your website.
Advantages of Wordpress
o
Wordpress does not
require php and html knowledge
o
Large support community
to help its users
o
Thousands of free
plugins are available for use
o
Thousands of free and
paid graphic templates
o
Fields can be easily
added into forms
Drupal: Drupal is content management platform powering
millions of websites around world. It was created over ten years ago. It is an
open source web development platform. That means that it’s completely free to
download, use and modify. No registration or purchase required.
Advantages of
Drupal
o
It includes a rich set
of functionalities like advanced menu management, graphic modification tools,
user’s management etc.
o
Advanced user management
o
Capabilities of design
elements editing
o
Structured page content
management through URL addresses or paths
o
Thousands of plugins
available
Magento: Magento is one of the most developed platforms
for running an online shopping cart. Magento requires a little knowledge of
coding. Choosing to start a business with this platform you have to consider
that only a programmer will be able to manage it.
Advantages of Magento
o
Wide range of
functionality
o
Technical support is
very good
o
Additional
functionalities can be installed in Magento
o
It is written in SEO
friendly scripts
Conclusion
For a small ecommerce
stores a WordPress with Woocommerce or a Drupal installation would be a good
choice. For huge stores Magento is more suitable than any other ecommerce
platform.
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