Having a website is vital today to showcase new ideas, products, or services. There are more and more platforms that allow you to create websites without needing knowledge in computing or programming. These platforms are known as CMS (Content Management Systems). Below we recommend the best ones for us, taking into account some factors:
1. WordPress
It is the most popular platform in terms of CMSs and its popularity is due to the amount of technical support and developers that sustain this network. The biggest advantage of this platform is its enormous community of users and web developers.
WordPress has the advantage of being very easy to use, it is friendly for any new user and also very intuitive. The limitations that a user without programming experience may find can be easily resolved with Plugins and Themes developed by the community.
It is a platform that has an infinity of possibilities and resources. It also allows programmers to scale their functions through the development of its source code.
In addition to all its versatility, WordPress now offers the possibility of transforming web pages into online stores (ecommerce). Through the extension for WordPress: Woocommerce, users have the possibility to manage catalogs, inventories, billing, automated emails, and order processing in a very simple way without requiring programming knowledge.
2. Shopify
Shopify was specifically designed for e-commerce and its popularity has increased significantly in the last 3 years.
It offers integrations with payment gateways and increasingly presents more accessible themes and plugins. Like WordPress, it has a very easy-to-use administrative interface, although in terms of design and customization it presents some limitations that are not so easy to resolve without basic programming knowledge.
Another disadvantage is that many extra functions and plugins are costly compared to the options offered by WordPress. Nevertheless, the growth of the platform has allowed the community to develop better options for both plugins and themes.
3. Joomla
Joomla is a popular platform like WordPress, however, it is considered that its administration and use require a slightly more advanced level in terms of programming and code development.
It has a very easy-to-use administrator interface but has limitations if the administrator lacks programming knowledge.
Additionally, the platform is characterized by being very efficient in the development of websites that require membership and subscriptions from users. Joomla gives us the possibility to perform very powerful functions in terms of user management, subscriptions, and memberships.
4. Opencart
Opencart was also designed for e-commerce and is relatively easy to use, although like Joomla, it requires a bit of intermediate or advanced programming to perform specific functions.
Unlike WordPress, the platform works with modules, and the use of these modules is not so simple if you do not know basic programming: HTML, javascript, CSS, and PHP.
The great advantage of this platform in our experience is SEO. The Opencart system is very friendly to search engines and it is very easy for the user to edit metadata fields and the website structure. This way, optimization for Google and Bing works perfectly.
5. CMS Hub
It is a new system compared to those mentioned above but has a great advantage in that it allows us to manage content and sales at the same time since it is integrated with a CRM.
Additionally, its SEO optimization functions and design tools are on par with the most popular CMS.
6. Adobe Commerce
Adobe Commerce, formerly known as Magento, is a platform designed for e-commerce and offers very powerful functions for B2B businesses, although its functions also allow the development of stores aimed at B2C.
The platform is one of the most powerful in terms of technology and scalability, however, using the platform does require knowledge in technology, computing, and intermediate or advanced programming.