Properly designed content management system provides distinct niche to your website irrespective of its nature, whether it belongs to category of blog, e-commerce site, shopping cart or simple template files. There, nearly 1700 different CMS has been reported with different features and probabilities. However, for choosing out right CMS one can follow below provided points.

The CMS should be matching with the Website: Selection of CMS for your website should be cornered around the theme of website and its design. It all depends on the website whether it is a static website, e-commerce site or a heavy media heavy site with tons of videos, photos and audio files, or it simply it is a blog.

A CMS should be easy to Understood: CMS of the site should be simple so be easily understood by a common user.  Its backend should be easy to be learned without many instructions. There should be proper labeling of the different elements of the website. And steps for all the important features like posting a new page, editing a page, and even changing themes or sidebar elements should be very easy.

There should be standardization for backend: The Backend for the CMS should be standardized for each section. If one section has, drop down menus, then other should also be following the same method.  Thus standardization should even be followed for naming and other features of the CMS.

It should be well-organized and logical CMS: There should be logical working of all the sections at the backend, whether it is editing, themes or creating new content, all should be grouped in manner to work, unilaterally.

Unnecessary functionality should be avoided: This depends on one’s choice, if one is using blog, there is no need of unnecessarily having an online store on the CMS. Therefore, a CMS should have that much of functionality as required by theme it is for

CMS should be easy to use by anyone: As CMS popularly is a blog then would be used by a very common user who is not that much expert with designing and with basic computer skills. The crux of the thought is that the CMS should be simple to be used by very common user

It should have a WYSIWYG editor: The CMS should be including   WYSIWYG editors as most of the common user knows nothing about HTML tags neither wants to learn it, however like to use bold or Italic. Thus a   WYSIWYG editor gives apt answer to the problem of a common user.

It should have fast-loading simple code: Pages generated from a CMS after uploading information should be lighter enough to be read by any browser easily. There should not be extra code on the CMS making a page heavier

There complete creative control should be provided There should be ample scope for creativity in template in form of sidebar navigation. Other issues like nice arrangement of the content should be catered, appropriately.

CMS should have proper support and documentation: And finally, the CMS that you are selecting out should have help desk and support to seek help incase you are fixed at any problem. CMS should have support forum with regular visitors and technical guy from the CMS team. For documentation, there should be help for everything.

Some Good Options for Choosing a CMS

WordPress: WordPress, which, initially was started as blogging platform soon developed into a functional CMS with a vast number of features added to it. The utmost contribution provided to the success of Wordpress goes to number of plugins attached to it. With plugins, a Wordpress blog gets converted into anything from brochure sites to portfolio and gallery sites to fully-featured ecommerce sites. Its backend is very intuitive to use with various functionalities for appearance, posts, pages, etc. The WYSIWYZ editor provided with word press do all the basic functions involving inserting images, video and other media to toggle back and forth between HTML and Visual mode.

From the point of view of using, it is very easy to employ, a very common computer user can run an e-commerce site with WP. Altogether wordpress is standard –complaint with easier page creation and quick loading of pages. The code involved with wordpress is very massive as it covers everything from basic instructions to creation of personalized plugins.

Radiant CMS: Created on Ruby on Rails this platform is unique to create basic site with unlimited number of pages. Blogging and gallery function can be added to it via extensions. Its logical backend is simple with pages, snippets, and layouts as the primary sections. It is limited in its functionality, with extensions to be made only in Ruby on Rails. Its basic WYSIWYG editor let user to exercise all basic functions.  It has a very simple and easy-to-use backend.

SilverStripe: Created in PHP on the Sapphire framework, it is a multi featured CMS that can do anything you wish it to do for you being more customizable.  Its backend can be customized by a designer according to a client’s request. With WYSIWYG editor, it has one of the easiest CMS for geeks as well as non geeks.  It provides free support for both developers and end-users, forums and an IRC channel.

Joomla!: It is the most widely used open-source CMS presently in use runs on PHP and MySQL. Its backend is very simple with sections for managing articles, the front page, menus, media, and other content. Its WYSIWYG editor involves a number of features including formatting options containing emoticons. Joomla is very powerful therefore is not suggested for simple sites with excessive functionality. It has provisions for faster page loading from caching and GZIP pages.

TYPOlight: It uses PHP5 and Ajax for functionality for static pages, blogs, newsletters, and calendars, among other sections. Its backend is quite innovative with providing a good number of functionalities. Moreover, it has shortcuts for improvising from every thing from creating forms to involvement of Flash content.

Frog: this PHP-based version of Radiant CMS is provided with simple UI that is very instinctive. It lets you create a very long hierarchy of pages with customize templates on per-page basis. And it has all very appropriate WYSIWYG editors, simplified and similar to WordPress.

Textpattern: Textpattern is improvised as UI on the backend, it brings instinctive feature of content editing to add new page on login. Though devoid of WYSIWYG editor, it also uses Textile for content editing that is very easy for a new user to learn.

ExpressionEngine: One of the most powerful CMS has support for every function that you would you ever think about. Its built-in WYSIWYG editor is quite good to work well and effectively.  .

Drupal: It is also one of the strongest CMS that is used from corporate sites to ecommerce sites to social networking sites. Its backend is very simple with systematic links to create new content, manage accounts, and edit existing content. Drupal doesn’t retain a WYSIWYG editor in its basic features.

CMS Made Simple: As name suggest, it is that simple to use that even in a single evening it can set a simple website for you. It involves complete template support, easy and vast content functionality.