template design
You want to have a professional looking website, but you lack the start-up budget? No worries! There are a lot of free and open-source frameworks, that can easily resolve your problem. For these frameworks you can request a custom template design, and in no time your website will be online. A few, but not limited to these free and open-source frameworks are:
- WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at subdomain of blogspot.com. Visit the developers website for more information.
- osCommerce (open source commerce) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Magento is an open source e-commerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. Magento Enterprise Edition, a non-free version of Magento aimed at larger companies, was launched on April 15, 2009. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License. Visit the developers website for more information.
- PrestaShop is an e-commerce solution which is free for the basic kernel and open source. It supports payment gateways such as Google checkout, PayPal or payments pro via APIs. Further payment modules are offered commercially. PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for small to medium-sized businesses. The software, which is based on the Smarty template engine, is used by several thousands of shops worldwide. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Joomla! is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It comprises a model-view-controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently. Joomla! is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. Visit the developers website for more information.
- Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration. Visit the developers website for more information.
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