Open Source Web Content Management Systems OR Friends don’t let friends create static sites or write their own CMS’s

Devcurry - Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

“As wikipedia defines it - “A web content management (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices, in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files”

Here are some good Open Source ASP.NET Web CMS that are popular in the community.

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Because I feel somewhat strongly about how something was implemented someplace, and I have a tendency to vent strongly when the subject comes up, I can’t say much too more on this subject (obtuse enough? Just trying to keep out of trouble…sigh).

In short, static web sites where there’s a known expectation that the content will grow, will change over time, will be added to, where content will need to be added quickly, where the information is not static, where you’d like RSS/web feeds, etc, etc, static sites are not the right tool. They might be easy to churn out, but what happens in three years of monthly updates? Keyword is “content”.

Don’t roll your own. Do you really need to re-invent that wheel? If you can’t use SharePoint, then use one of the many great and very mature open source/free CMS’s available. If they don’t 100% fit, then you can always tweak them...  Static, “hard coded” content, sites are very cutting edge… for the mid 90’s…