PostNuke: Open Source Content Management System

PostNuke: Blogability Made Simple

PostNuke is one of the most useful and flexible software packages out there, equipping even new site owners with the tools to build a professional-looking site, set up a site blog, manage content and make updates and changes quickly and simply. It’s also free with each of Website Source’s VPS hosting plans (virtual private server) tiers.

If You Build It….

If you’re new to the world of e-commerce, the thoughts of building your own website and starting your own site blog are daunting. The alternatives? Hire an expensive firm to create your site or let your 14-year-old nephew do it, neither of which is a good option for many web start-ups.

PostNuke is open source software (OSS) which means that the underlying computer code of PostNuke is available to programmers and others to fix bugs, make refinements and add new features. As such, PostNuke just keeps getting better and better through the efforts of the ever-expanding PostNuke-user community.

PostNuke uses an efficient theme approach to site design. Just pick the theme you like, type in your text and launch. It really is that simple, so you really can build your own site – one with lots of features.

PostNuke Add-Ons

One of the coolest things about PostNuke is that other programmers have built useful PostNuke modules, blocks and themes that simply plug into the core module. These add-ons make it easy to create your site skin, create an on-line form, put up an image gallery and create truly dynamic web pages to interact with visitors.  

The Blog Mod

One of these modules, of particular interest to existing site owners, is the PostNuke Blog Module. Using nothing more than PostNuke’s on-screen administrator’s console, you can start a site blog to more effectively engage visitors and provide a reason for them to visit your site often. Maybe even bookmark it!

Blog stands for web log and it’s nothing more than a place to post news, information and features that other visitors review. They can also leave their own comments. Blogs change frequently, with new information being added daily – even hourly – so the site’s content is always green.

With a site blog, you can allow visitors to post their own articles and information, or you can keep it strictly for your postings to create an on-screen ‘voice’.

Managing Content

Another feature that sets PostNuke apart is its completely flexible, simple and intuitive content management system, or CMS. If your site sells a lot of products, if inventory changes daily, if you use content from other sites (RSS feeds, for example) or publish your content on other sites (syndication) you need a convenient, one-stop content management system so you know what’s where.

There are lots of CMSs available, all of them with their own functions and features but the PostNuke CMS is fully integrated with the core module, enabling you to build and administer your site, add a blog or forum, change site themes and manage site content using one piece of OSS – one with an active user community that is constantly adding to and refining PostNuke’s growing list of functions.

Remember, you receive PostNuke as one of Website Source’s many free tools and apps that come as part of our virtual private server (VPS) plans.

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