CMS 14 of 24: Elxis, Omeka, CruxCMS

Elxis CMS

Elxis 2008.1 Nemesis, is the first mass upgrade of the 2008 Elxis generation. This version of Elxis CMS runs only under PHP 5.0 or newer, supports Oracle database, has an integrated blog component called eBlog (Elxis Blog), a new system for language handling and an upgraded SEO PRO for even better search engines friendly URLs. In this version you will also find other changes, fixes and additions although the most of the work we have done in this release is on core level. We encourage you to upgrade your Elxis 2008.0 installation to 2008.1 using the Elxis Updater.

Omeka

Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.

Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.

CruxCMS

CruxCMS is a lightweight, easy to use website content management system (CMS)

It is written in PHP and uses the powerful MySQL database

Although lightweight, it has a large number of features and is ideal for both small, personal websites and larger corporate sites.

CruxCMS has been written with web designers in mind and as such is extremely easy to create designs for.
It includes a selection of templates by default to get you started, but creating a new template is simply a matter of creating or editing one template file and inserting the appropriate ‘code snippets’ to insert the data.
This website uses a custom template, but is the same CMS underneath

Best of all, CruxCMS is completely free, released under the GNU GPL License