Open Source Web Development

Creating your own website for free and managing it in whatever way you want is open source web development. Open source means open for everybody. Anybody can download the software and work on it. One of the many advantages is that when you think of something creative and you want to make a website, you first make a blog which is free of cost to make sure whether people will like it or not. After that you pay for your domain the do the website procedures.

Joomla

Joomla is a well known content management system which allows the users to create their own websites free of cost. One of the advantages is that it is easy to use for the people who are new to blogging. It has also won an award for being the best open source website software.

Joomla’s main mission was to create such an interface that’s easy to use for the new users as well as advanced users. Just a single click and you can start your website right now without paying any fee or anything else.

It also helps and saves time for web developers and designers. They can use Joomla to create a website for their client and then afterwards customize it according to their needs. Since it is easy to use, they can then provide the guide which would not be so difficult to the clients. The problem in web development arises that client finds it hard in understanding the interface and functionalities.

Wordpress.

Wordpress is an open source content management system that is always preferred. Creating your website with Wordpress can give you many benefits. It is easy to use and totally according to what users really want. It has many features that many other CMS’s don’t have. Let’s look at some of the benefits of Wordpress.

1. The best advantage is that Google prefer Wordpress over all the other CMS’s. Wordpress is easily found on Google by doing some SEO work so not much hard work is required. So due to Google, you’ll always be better than other website software’s.
2.  In Wordpress, you can install themes into your website. You can customize themes and even make your own if you know HTML. Wordpress Allows almost everything a normal blogger would want to do it his website. Themes help in getting new people to your website.
3. Plug-ins can be installed in your Wordpress which is the best feature. Plug-ins help user to enable different options to his website. They also help in blocking spam and many other things. A visitor always admires if the website has different features, animations, and uniqueness and tends to come back daily.

Drupal

It is a free open source content management system which is written in PHP and spread under General Public License. Anyone is allowed to download this software and also share it with other people. Drupal supports almost all the features of new technologies because many people are constantly working on Drupal to make it more reliable and efficient for the users.