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Many of the content management software (CMS) systems you know today started out as simple blogging platforms. Now, you’ll find the best CMS platforms double as website builders, web hosts and e-commerce platforms. A CMS primarily needs to help you manage content and media for a website, but it should also provide added value in low monthly costs, search engine optimization (SEO) tools and customization options.

Forbes compared the top names in content management software to help you find the best system for your specific needs, whether you’re selling products online, providing services or information to customers or you want to promote a blog. Joomla was listed as one of the top 10 along with WordPress. They both have different pros/cons despite being basically the same underneath with a LAMP stack.

On the 6th of November 2017, CMS Critic announced the winners of theCMS Critic Awards 2017. Joomla! has been competing in the Best Free CMS category and won - again!  Joomla! has received a CMS Critic award 4 times in a row now. As one of the most popular Joomla! consultancies in the UK we would like to send a thank you to the Joomla! community of coders, extension developers, testers and cheerleaders who support and collaborate every day in the ongoing development of this platform. We can't do anything without you!

If you run a WordPress site you may have noticed a new notice appearing when you login to the admin dashboard. This announces the release of Gutenberg, a new type of editor which works a little like those large, clunky page builders we've been using for years.

It replaces many, if not all, shortcode plugins with its own blocks and actually works quite well. Because it's integrated in to WordPress it's likely to be quicker for pages to load and easier for even basic users to create complex pages with CSS style functionality.

It is being offered to a subset of WordPress users right now but will become standard in WordPress 5 - expected maybe Q1 2019.

It's not going to change the world for many people, but it might make adding and editing posts easier and quicker for less capable users. We have clients with several WordPress sites and staff training is always ongoing so Gutenberg might reduce that requirement and let them get on with their business.  Our own tests on our own sites suggests that we can do away with widgets, plugins and shortcodes and start with a blank page laid out how we want and simply have to add the textual and media content.

If you want to try Gutenberg, just ask your account managerand we'll create a clone of your site that you can test it on without affecting your live site.