Content Management System:
A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. Not only do content management systems help website users with content editing, they also take care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work.
Big Name Brands That Use WordPress:
1. Yahoo! -
2. New York Times Blog -
3. Play Station Blog -
Popular CMSs:
1. Wordpress - For those users not familiar with HTML or other markup language, a WYSIWYG editor is provided straight out of the box. The backend layout is streamlined and intuitive, and a new user should be able to easily find their way around the administration section. Wordpress also comes with built-in image and multimedia uploading support. For developers, the theming language is fairly simple and straightforward, as well the Plugin API. The WordPress Community is a faithful and zealous bunch. Wordpress probably has the widest base of plugins and themes to choose from. A great part about the Wordpress community is the amount of help and documentation online you can find on nearly every aspect of customizing WordPress. If you can dream it, chances are it's already been done with WordPress and documented somewhere.
2. Drupal - Instead of focusing on blogging as a platform, Drupal is more of a pure CMS. A plain installation comes with a ton of optional modules that can add lots of interesting features like forums, user blogs, OpenID, profiles and more. It's trivial to create a site with social features with a simple install of Drupal. In fact, with a few 3rd party modules you can create some interesting site clones with little effort. One of Drupal's most popular features is the Taxonomy module, a feature that allows for multiple levels and types of categories for content types.
3. Joomla! - Joomla is a very advanced CMS in terms of functionality. That said, getting started with Joomla is fairly easy, thanks to Joomla's installer. Joomla's installer is meant to work on common shared hosting packages, and is a very straightforward considering how configurable the software is.
Joomla is very similar to Drupal in that it's a complete CMS, and might be a bit much for a simple portfolio site. It comes with an attractive administration interface, complete with intuitive drop-down menus and other features. The CMS also has great support for access control protocols like LDAP, OpenID and even Gmail.com. The Joomla site hosts more than 3,200 extensions, so you know the developer community behind the popular CMS is alive and kicking. Like Wordpress, you can add just about any needed functionality with an extension. However, the Joomla theme and extension community relies more on paid plugins and themes, so if you're looking for customizations, be ready to pay.
Circumstances for which one to use you should consider your skill level, like if you aren't very advanced you should choose Wordpress because it is the easiest one to work. But from personal experience I would recommend Wordpress.
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