
PivotX is primarily a blogging platform but if also allows you to maintain more complex websites.




WebGUI is an open source content management system built to give business users the ability to build and maintain
complex web sites. Today, WebGUI is in use as a framework in several Global 1000 companies and is the driving force
behind countless business and enterprise environments.



Only the most promising CMS platform available to date. Beat out CMS made simple this year for most promising new CMS. Solid system and even more free than the rest in that whatever you do with it - you can keep it proprietary. BSD Baby.




Pixie is a light weight CMS, coded in PHP/CSS and primarily serving as a blogging platform. It was created with a single vision: that anyone should be able to create and maintain a website.




A powerful, flexible, and robust content management system with state of the art features and functionality. Mia can be used for anything from small personal sites all the way up to large enterprise portals and e-commerce websites.




FlatPress is an open source, standard compliant, multi lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a database to work.




BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.


Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage.




Movable Type is a professional weblog publishing platform developed by the company Six Apart.




LightNEasy, a simple and light Content Management System and Website Builder. LightNEasy is not only a CMS, It actually creates plain, pure web pages for your whole website, making it SEO friendly and fast loading. Each time you add a page, alter the menus, it regenerates all pages again so that they remain fully integrated.




Web 2.0 News Portal is a small and friendly Web 2.0 application for publishing News and Blog posts.



Pixelpost is an open-source photoblog application for the web. It is standards-compliant, multi-lingual and fully extensible .




Habari is a “next-generation free software blogging patform” still in development but backed by some of the web’s most respected coders and developers. Habari will grow to be something special.




Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, it allows for multiple blogs and authors, easy publishing, commenting, RSS, archiving, search and more.




Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system optimised for blogging. Like most CMS, it is coded in php and requires a mysql database for operations.




WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.



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