You read the first article in this series, How to build a website for your business Part 1. You have your domain name and you have your website host. Now what.
You need to choose what software program you will use to build your site, unless you want to hard code the site yourself.
Website software building programs are called CMS (Content management systems). I am a big proponent of open source software and the CMS market has tons of them. When choosing a CMS to build your website, determine how much time you are willing to spend building it, the purpose of your website, and how often you plan to update it.
Are you building a e-commerce site where you will sell things, will it be a blog that will be updated regularly, or will it be a static website that won’t change much.
At opensourcecms.com you can browse through, try and read reviews of most of the open source cms available today. Try the demo’s, she how the sites look that were built with those programs, and look at the backend configuration portion to see if it is something you are able to learn and use. All CMS programs have a learning curve. Some are steeper than others.
Personally, I have worked with: