An Independant comparison of Open Source Content Management Systems

For retailers, franchisors, marketers and other Australian Businesses

Balance Internet are Online Retailing and Marketing Specialist company based in Melbourne. We understand the Balance between technology, marketing your brand and delivering an online solution.
Our independent hands-on approach has evolved since 1996 and delivers measurable outcomes and maximises your return on investment in the online space.

As Australia's leading independant web design company, we've taken the liberty to provide you with a non-skewed analysis and review of Open Source Content Management Systems for Australian Retailers, Franchisors and Marketers. We hope this review helps you with your decision when choosing a cost effective, stable, scalable and user friendly Content Management System for your business.

Let's firstly help you understand what is a CMS (Content Management System)?

In basic terms, a CMS is a software tool installed on your web server that enables you to manage your site's features, content, images, documents, members and users through an easy-to use browser-based interface.

Talking about Open Source CMS

This graph (source Google Trends) shows the top 5 most talked about "open source CMS". Of the hundreds of Open Source Content Management Systems available, the results from Google Trends show Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Mambo and Plone as the most talked about.

We have focused our analysis on these findings.

Our Open Source CMS analysis

Click here to download our independant analysis of "Best Practice", cost effective, stable and user friendly Open Source Content Management Systems