Why ASP.Net BAsed CMS ALways Beats PHP Based CMS like Joomla, WordPress, etc

Understanding Content Management System and ASP.NET CMS


Are you thinking of building your own website or web application? Do you want to build website from scratch or do you want to use a content management system? If you are interested in breaking into the digital world, read on as I am going to provide you with information that may be crucial for your understanding of the web creations, options and tools you can use. I will be giving information on PHP CMS and ASP.NET CMS.

As the internet matured, web designers and developers realized that making websites from scratch using editing tools such as notepad was time consuming. Moreover, to complicate the process they had to code the same thing again and again. When they realized this waste of time and effort, they came up with a better solution called Content Management System or CMS for short. Content management systems started to emerge in the e-market in the late 1990s. The focus was to make sure that the common procedures that were involved in every web projects would no longer

need repeating. Instead, they came with an ingenious idea of providing a pre-programmed web application, which would serve as a platform for websites and web applications.

The birth of Content management system in the net, hastened the process of developing more and more powerful and effective content management systems. As the competition increased, the CMS developers started to take make sure that their CMSes were user friendly. CMSes, nowadays, are developed with non-technical end users in mind. That means the site owner or site administrator need not necessarily have the technical or coding abilities.

These changes brought a profound change on how the content management systems were harnessed. Websites, such as news websites, blogs or eCommerce sites, that require frequent updating shifted towards using Content Management System. CMSes evolved as time passed by and the word ‘Content” in the “Content Management System”, was referred to mean the things that filled the pages of websites and web applications. The content could be text, pictures, and audio, video and even document files. Modern CMSes not only manage content, they also make sure that the websites built on top of them are search engine friendly too. Today, you will find hundreds of CMSes in the net; you just need to be careful while choosing what suits you best.

Content Management Systems come in all shapes and sizes. Some are developed to provide you comprehensive services while sacrificing on the performance side, while others are light weight not to weigh heavily on performance side, but their services may not be as comprehensive as you might need.
Content management systems are marketed under different types of licensing. Licensing spell out how you can use a particular CMS. There are basically three types of licensing: Open Source, Closed source and commercial. Open source CMSes are normally free, but you cannot guarantee it. However, you can change, edit and modify the codes of open source CMS to suit your purposes. Open source software/CMS are often maintained by volunteers. Closed source CMSes are also called propriety CMSes do not come with the source included and there are fees involved. Commercial software also come with cost, and they also spell the condition when and where these software can be used.

 

CMSes are built on various technologies or coding languages such as PHP, ASP.NET, Java, ROR and Python. Right now, the PHP based Content Management Systems are very popular, with WordPress leading by a big margin. This popularity has its root on Wordpress blogs. Technology also has an effect on how a particular CMS behaves.

PHP CMS and ASP.NET CMS are two most popular technologies that power many Content Management systems. PHP is an open source technology driven by open source enthusiasts while ASP.NET technology is owned by Software giant Microsoft. Hence, ASP.NET technology inherits the prestige from Microsoft. According to a study done in 2013 AD, 79% websites used PHP technology while 20% of them used ASP.NET.


You can find various PHP CMS and ASP.NET CMS in the CMS market. Moreover, some of these are open source and others are propriety. Generally speaking, you can find many open source PHP CMSes than ASP.NET CMSes. Again this might be because of the licensing differences between PHP and ASP.NET.
ASP.NET based CMSes are considered safer and also inherit prestige of Microsoft. However ASP.NET CMSes have some costs involved. ASP.NET requires paid Windows hosting. If you want to modify the code of PHP based CMS, you can use free editing tools such as notepad, however ASP.NET based CMS require Visual Studio for coding, which again, costs money. ASP.NET CMSes can be programmed in a variety of programming languages such as C, C#, J++, PERL. Thus, ASP.NET based CMSes are quite flexible and performance optimized unlike PHP CMSes.

With the above knowledge, you are free to choose the CMS that you require. But before zeroing on a CMS, do your research, try free or trial versions. Once you are satisfied with a CMS then only put it into your use.

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