Wordpress, initially developed as a platform for blogging, has presently become one of the rampantly utilized Content Management System (CMS) over the web. This CMS is no more restricted to blogging, but is now preferred by a number of government agencies, media organizations as well as standalone bloggers. The striking feature is that one can upload WordPress in one’s individual web space and there are free blogs which can be accessed through WordPress dot com.
Let’s take a glance at the opposite side of the coin now. Because of its immense popularity and considerable market share, WordPress has almost become an ‘apple of the eye’ for hackers and other cyberspace criminals. Once a criminal is able to make his way into any WordPress site, he can transform the same into a malicious site that will download harmful codes into the devices (desktops, laptops, etc.) from which the page is viewed. Further the criminals can indulge in vandalism and information theft leading to dire consequences for your site as well as your personal identity. Hence, it’s high time you become aware of the possible threats to your WordPress site, so that you can defend your site against malicious attacks while doing WordPress development.
Common WordPress Security Threats
Forced Login: This refers to attempts by unauthorized users to infiltrate into your site by using different combinations of usernames as well as passwords. Most of the times, these people will be able to break into your website because they have the requisite tools and programs. But there is always a way out. You can go for passwords that are more secure and also limit the number of attempts for logging in through a plug-in installation.
Validation of login information: In case the user enters some incorrect information, the present login form informs him exactly in which part the mistake has occurred. For example, in case the user puts in a wrong username and the correct password, Wordpress will immediately inform that the username is incorrect. This validation of wrong information becomes a serious threat to the security of WordPress because it gives the hacker in-depth information about which part of the login details he needs to change. To fix this problem, there is a particular line of code which you can enter into the functions.php file of the Wordpress theme which will just tell the user that the login information is incorrect, without going into further details.
Registration across the globe: All Wordpress sites allow registration from any part of the globe by anyone. However, by default, this function is disabled. It is advisable not to enable this function unless you want to reach out to a global audience. To make sure that this particular option is disabled, go for ‘General’ settings in the ‘Settings’ tab and uncheck the option which allows any person to register. If you wish people to comment or offer feedback on the content of your website, use a different commenting system for the same rather than allowing visitors to directly register with your site.
Easy Admission for Editors: Owners of WordPress sites are usually in the habit of providing access to those who would be editing the content of the site. This indeed is a good option so far as the layout and design is concerned, but there is always the risk of people obtaining unauthorized access to the dashboard, from where it is possible to change the background, layout, theme and other features of the site. However, you can conveniently prevent such access by entering a specific line of code in the functions.php file.
Version of WordPress: The latest version of Wordpress comes with 37 bug fixes which include remedies for three critical security loopholes. Older versions possess these flaws and hence are susceptible to attack by cyberspace criminals. It is always good to use the most updated version of WordPress. However, if you are unable to do so, you can simply hide information that reveals the WordPress version you are using.
Remember that with the growing popularity of this CMS, hackers with come up with newer means to cause a breach in the WordPress security systems. Hence, one should always adopt the latest and most stable version, enhance login security and restrict global registration to avoid WordPress security threats. Happy Blogging!
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It all started with Peter Millar, a multichannel retailer, dealing in various types of clothing, accessories and sportswear. As consumers increasingly became aware of and began to express interest in their versatile fashion collections, Peter Millar felt the need for an ecommerce platform that would explicitly reflect their brand image and accelerate the business growth process. The company focused on three key parameters:
- Betterment of website design for enhancing the user-experience in order to reflect their brand identity as a luxury retailer more precisely.
- Implementation of an efficient solution that would help the company effectively reach out to its target audience browsing websites through desktops, laptops, Smartphones, tablets and various other devices.
- Extension of the Magento functionality to enhance site performance and cater to channel partners in a more efficient manner, by more gracefully presenting all the product catalogues.
To address each of these requirements, Peter Millar chose to utilize the Magento platform’s flexibility within a responsive design framework to fulfill the business needs through customization of front-end as well as back-end elements. Before detailing on how fashion retailer Peter Millar drove multichannel growth through application of Magento and responsive design, let us explore the positive impacts of these two elements on ecommerce business.
Magento E-Commerce development: The key advantages
Magento offers an open-source freely downloadable CMS platform for website developers. The striking feature is that Magento’s shopping cart can be utilized at no additional cost. This CMS is a boon for ecommerce businesses because of the following reasons:
- Customized Business Solutions: Magento comes in four versions, namely, Magento Community, Magento Enterprise, Magento Enterprise Premium and Magento Go. Each version is designed based on specific business requirements. Moreover, modules, extensions widget, themes and add-ons can be easily customized. Magento also has a mobile friendly version.
- Short Market Time: For any business looking for a platform that can be made available to the market within a short period of time, Magento, with its free design templates, is the ideal choice.
- Search Engine friendly: Magento has inherent SEO features which permit the modification and optimization of web page elements like Meta tags and page titles to ensure better ranking in search engine result pages.
- Currency Updates: Magento’s updated currency format is a boon for international sellers. The straightaway link to WebService X allows this platform to modify item prices according to exchange rate fluctuation.
- Community Shopping: This CMS offers a brilliant platform for indirect marketing by inviting customers to read and write reviews of services and products, save items through the ‘Wishlist’ functionality and promote community shopping through ‘Send a Friend’ option.
- Rich Features: Several product options (bundled, group, configurable, etc) embedded within this CMS platform allows businesses to efficiently organize their stock.
- Responsive Design: Benefits for Ecommerce Businesses
- Usability: This is a very important factor so far as Ecommerce websites are concerned. Responsive design allows users to browse your site from desktops laptops or mobiles without downloading specific apps. Moreover, responsive design ensures quick access and high quality full website experience for customers even on mobile devices thus enhancing conversion rates.
- Time and Cost Effectiveness: Since a single website adjusts according to the size of the devices, companies need not spend time or money building and maintaining multiple websites.
How leveraging Magento and Responsive Design helped Peter Millar
The responsive framework enabled Peter Millar to provide world-class user experience across a range of devices. With an upgraded look and feel of the website, the multichannel retailer was able to rope in the company spirit within the site. Extra effect was added through application of color swatching in the pages containing product details, so that manifold apparel options can be gracefully represented. The implementation of an interactive store locator ensured the flow of visitors to local retail outlets. The page loading speed was also accelerated through Magento’s hosting configuration and caching functionality.
The responsive framework coupled with an effective CMS like Magento, enabled Peter Millar to enhance its site visits, including visits through mobile devices. There was also a rise in organic conversion rate and order value across desktops and mobiles. This is a significant indication for fashion retailers, intending to drive multichannel growth, to switch to Magento within a responsive framework.
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The Race for the most popular CMS is on. We care about our websites, therefore we need to stay updated and try our best to continuously improve, based on measurement and analytics. We want our website to serve multiple audiences, grow to a bigger organization with much content, managed perfectly well and also make sure our website content is distributed via other channels such as the social web. For all this ASP.NET CMS plays a vital role and forms integral part of Microsoft's .NET vision.
Business can be improved for better through procedures. Asp.net CMS organizes data and represents them in a predefined manner. These CMS are fully flexible, one can modify as per your need. Beginners can comfortably work on this framework and any novice can manage and edit these CMS with ease.
DotNetNuke is a framework which helps certified CMS developers in deploying interactive, customized, feature-rich, web sites and applications in Microsoft .NET. This CMS enables businesses to quickly build menu-driven interface that allows non-technical users to easily create new sites or extend the functionality and features of their existing web site. It is avialable for free. DNN has a very active community and is supported by a vast community of talented programmers. It is one of the easiest, most cost effective solutions for managing any company’s website. In usability point it is the best framework people reach out for, non-technical users can change their content easily, by adding pages, changing layout and adding new features etc in a smooth way without much info. There are 8000 modules in DNN which can customize the website look and feel as well as its functionality. It is extremely scalable as any website can grow to much larger websites with DotNetNuke. There is no limit to the growth. It even can change the way it behaves, one can easily extend it. It is most recognized CMS which powers over 400,000 portals, extranets, intranets and public web sites. More than 700,000 registered members support this platform. There are over 7 millions of downloads done and download rate is 1 in every 5 seconds for DotNetNuke.
Umbraco is built upon Microsoft's .NET Framework and more than 155,000 sites trust Umbraco. This CMS runs on cloud system and it supports multiple sites in a single instance of installation. There are more than 85000 installations of Umbraco which are active around the web. It gives out of box solutions, which means it gives you access to your google analytics statistics , has the ability to create your own reports from the metrics and dimensions, can implement the Umbraco ecommerce solution using only XSLT / Razor, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Net solutions perform better when it comes to high volume of traffic/extensive use. It supports bigger sites on web. Commercial community support is on the rise with this CMS. No doubt, Umbraco CMS development is the buzzword in the CMS world.
These ASP.NET CMS options be it DotNetNuke or Umbraco are most popular ones on the market. We must ensure that we target specific needs and requirements when we decide to choose among them. Umbraco has an easy editor microsoft word, where users are most comfortable in. It provides a high-quality and highly functional CMS. Umbraco has high requirements for hosting, so it is difficult to find a “shared” hosting environment that will support it. Its newer versions better support various browsers like Safari and Firefox. There are good plugins available and a management system built into Umbraco. Umbraco is better than dotnetnuke in speed.
Well DotNetNuke is no less inferior. Based on Microsoft’s ASP.NET it is the most popular web technology currently. It is cheap to use and reduces total development costs – no ongoing licensing fees required. It gives full access to source code so it can be altered to fit individual organizations. We can manage text, image, documents, links, events, news, banner ads and threaded info. It supports multiple, multilingual websites. And is scalable and provides user friendly interface which manage site hosting, content, security, web design, membership in one program. All these feature make both the CMS popular and in demand. It will be a tough phase for users to choose between these two CMS - DotNetNuke or Umbraco, which will be best to fit to their business.
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Choosing the right CMS which will best suit our business needs is an important decision. In order to make interactive and top ranking sites we need to update our website content regularly with latest and daily updates. Instead of modifying the code from the backend, one should easily update the content from the frontend, and this is possible with the latest technology growing with every passing day. Content Management System facilitates with an easy way to update one's site without much difficulty and setting up sites in quicker time. It allows business and webmasters to update content instantly and with no technical experience.
DotNetNuke and Kentico are the popular and leading CMS used world over. What shall I choose Kentico or DotNetNuke, is a big question.
DotNetNuke, Kentico are the popular and leading CMS used world over. Inorder to make interactive and communicative sites we need to update the website content regularly with latest updates. Instead of ,modifying the code from the backend one can easily update the content from the frontend which is possible with the latest Technology growing with every passing day. Content Management System facilitates with an easy way to update one's site without much difficulty and setting up sites in quicker time. It allows business and webmasters to update content instantly and with no technical experience.
DotNetNuke is a leading CMS which is available for free versions. It is flexible and easy to customize free skins and modules. There are more templates available for DotNetNuke than for Kentico. Its enhanced rich text editor allows image resizing, spell checking, cleaning up Word doc and includes HTML templates.
Administrators can manage the sites well by providing permissions to different levels of users - registered users, subscribers, content providers, affiliates and media. Accessing a particular page or module or entire site is upto the admin. It has the most popular free Nevoweb.com which helps in getting quick e-commerce solutions. They generate SEO friendly websites and create interactive social media sites. They build beautiful event calendars. DotNetNuke Blog module and Forum mobules are available for free and it helps you generates active ones.
DotNetNuke comes with some free modules and there are more than 8,000 3rd party add-ons at the DotNetNuke Store. Some are free and many are commercial. It has a stronger commercial community with more than 8000 members who are active in many DotNetNuke forums. DotNetNuke Support Network is spread widely accros the world. DotNetNuke comes loaded with a set of built-in features that provide exceptional functionality. Web design, site hosting, security, content management and membership options are all easily managed and customized through simple, browser-based tools.
DotNetNuke tends to be a favorite with programmers who possess .NET experience. There 600000 websites built on it. And they continue to serve better with their latest versions and presently preferred more on their paid versions of their product. It powers over 700,000 production websites and customizes and empowers custom app development with an open API. DotNetNuke is the most used, so it's easier to find reference.
Kentico CMS is damn easy to use and popular across globe. It is a self-contained solution, with hundreds of built-in web parts and dozens of modules. We need not purchase additional software or third party add-on components. Kentico have a lot of plugins by default. Offers a variety of different licenses for its CMS platform. They come with variable prices that depend on license required (website, small business etc), additional services etc. They have built-in WYSIWYG editor which does advanced formatting, linking and insertion of images/Flash movies. One can easily develop online shopping apps with Kentico, as it very well integrates with PayPal, and Authorize.net. They help in generating customizing SEO urls. It has standard modules which can generate fully customized blogs and forums.
Kentico CMS provides whole new set of features focused on Internet Marketing such as enhanced Contact Management, Web Analytics, Content Personalization, Dashboards, Lead Scoring and new Email marketing tools plus much more. Kentico has a stable commercial community but it does not yet possess the same widespread support as either DotNetNuke. It is proving to be a worthy competitor with its combination of novice-friendly practical interface and enough advanced solutions for developers. Kentico fans largely outnumber the people who are not happy with it with the new Kentico version 5. They have several bigger upgrades and liked my many.
CMS streamlines efforts and builds as well as updates websites in a simple way. As long as the CMS fits all of your needs, it will be the right decision. According to survey Kentico scores 60% and DotNetNuke scores 40% in terms of which is easier to use. DotNetNuke scored very well more than Kentico in terms of functionality. One of the core differences between Kentico and DotNetNuke is that with Kentico, there is a separation of the front-end website templates from the administration function. With DotNetNuke they are tied together. In terms of development Kentico exceeds DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke has forums, books and blogs to support the product. With many pros and cons according to some users DotNetNuke is much slower than Kentico but its available for Free. Kentico is used by higher traffic sites than DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke is used by 0.6% of all the websites whose content management system we know and that rank in the top 100.000. DotNetNuke is suited for a variety of projects -- from the smallest website to the largest corporate deployment. It more focused on validation, bug tracking, potential threats and encryption. DotNetNuke wins as it has a trademark and has a brand name in the open source community and it has enhanced features which deploys tremendous output to business. Hence Certified CMS developers are what businesses need to create rich and amazing websites with a perfect CMS.
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Content Management System helps to control and manage the content of any website where business is efficiently managed. .NET CMSs gives you the power you need to develop high-concept, beautiful websites with a strong backbone which gives an experience working with .NET platform used in various kinds of business. ASP.net CMS is a basic framework to build more advanced content management system. There are many .NET framework CMS available in the web, used for business among them the most popular ones are Kentico and Umbraco.
With Kentico CMS one can easily manage websites with less or no technical knowledge. It is a complete customer experience management platform with many additional modules that allows to sell products online, build customer communities, create on-line forms, run e-mail campaigns, provide e-commerce solutions, supports multilingual websites, multisite management etc. It is being used by more than 12,000 websites across the globe in more than 87 countries. It gives content management flexibility by providing 33 templates and includes custom document types, fields and content/design separation. It give huge profits by providing excellent e-commerce solutions which can easily build on-line stores and sell products over the web. Its modules can integrate with PayPal, Authorize.net and offer customer rich benefits. It can even customize URLs and can use in Google Sitemap. We have a highly talented Kentico developers from India who are well versed and experienced with Kentico CMS Customization, who offer fully scalable CMS solutions that allows you to update the content on your website without much technical skills.
Umbraco CMS is a free content management system which publishes content in web and intranets. It can build incredible websites quickly from scratch, just the way we desire. One can modify content the way you want to and can integrate Microsoft Word along with that which makes our task easier. It allows to create many different users and assign them permissions. There is also an e-commerce application and module available. It even provides content management flexibility by making available unlimited levels, categories and types of content. It facilitates with microsoft word style editor that includes integration with your desktop word so that one can easily edit and create content when offline. It provides features which have full control over all SEO components. Umbraco CMS development is well known in India for providing highly gorgeous and customized websites.
Both of these CMS have similar features and can meet various business needs with different requirements. Kentico CMS provides free license which requires to keep the logo and copyright information on the page, but the commercial versions offer support and allows to work without branding. It is mainly used for content management, e-commerce and social networking. Its broad base makes it an excellent choice for a wide variety of technology ventures. Umbraco CMS has become very popular with the designers due to the open templating system and has the ability to build content automatically. It's written in C# and can gel with a variety of databases. These CMS attracts many dedicated developers as they are easy-to-use, function-friendly and it great choice for years to come. Depending on the business needs we have the choice to choose any of these Best CMS. Websites get more customized, gain more potential and get more interactive with these popular CMS's.
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Content Management System meeting all sector business needs. It continuously diligently serves all types of industry sector be IT Services, Transportation/Logistics, Banking, Insurance and Healthcare. Amazing applications have been built using CMS. To make a global impact, marketers now need to stretch their marketing dollar to cover a plethora of value-added marketing tasks. And the results need to be timely, cost-effective, consistent and relevant. CMS has been more demanding and more popular powering millions of websites.
With more than one billion people using social networks today, social media is forging a new era in business opportunity and engagement, creating two-way communication that enables customer feedback and response in real-time. As the transportation and logistics sector grows, it is essential to work strategically to leverage technology and media to drive efficiencies and connect with core audiences, partners, and clients.
The bridge between social media and the transportation and logistics sector is natural: both depend on CMS technology to function. Logistics has always been a driver of new technology for operational excellence, and with social media, there is an opportunity to drive technology for marketing and communication excellence. CMS has its impact on every sector.
Wappalyzer a browser add-on that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects CMS and e-commerce systems, JavaScript frameworks, analytics tools and more. Wordpress is an vital blogging and web development tool used today. This particular CMS will make your life easy .It is the most popular CMS in the area of blogging and web development. With its core software been built by hundreds of community volunteers with thousands of themes and plug-in available, it makes web development handy. Word-press without any doubt is the best content management system, blogging platform and has healthy developer ecosystem with countless plug-ins which help you incorporate your efforts on your word-press based site. This popular CMS helps you create beautiful websites and blogs. It is free of cost so you can use freely as per your will and website requirements. It is based on PHP and MySQL. It has erupted in popularity on the web, and now powers over 50 million websites. The popular sites built in Wordpress are The Wall Street Journal Blogs, Time Magazine, CNN Blogs ,TED Blog, Wired Blogs, Forbes Blogs, Yahoo News India,CBS New York,The New York Observer,Harvard University Gazette,Reader’s Digest ,MTV Newsroom ,Mashable, Digital Photography, ChickSpeak, Volkswagen TDI Tankwars,FuseBox Theatre etc..
Business Catalyst
Adobe Business catalyst is a unified platform. In this particular system you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, lead generation mini-sites to beautiful brochure-ware sites.
Joomla is a dynamic portal engine and a content management system. This award winning CMS enables you to create powerful websites and online applications. This easy to use and extensible CMS is written on PHP which enables user to easily publish their contents on World Wide Web. It is also freely available to anyone and there are many themes and extension from which you can choose but the only problem with Joomla is that you’ll have to pay for most of the themes and plugins Joomla is the world's most popular full-featured Content Management System and powers approximately 2.7% of the 1,000,000 largest websites in the world. These websites are in a variety of fields, such as education, arts, media, sports, business, science, technology, health, etc. Cricbuzz is one of the best Joomla site samples that shows everyone how it is possible to place so many advertise, news, images, photos and other interesting stuff on one single site. Real Estate Uploads is another example of Joomla website that is aimed to show you how excellent design can help in any company promotion. Quizilla is one of the most rated websites made with Joomla, which main peculiarity is it’s extremely easy usage due to quite simple menus and submenus. Go To Logistics is a perfectly-designed Joomla website that is devoted to logistic services that can be easily ordered even online. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Today even web hosting companies provide a lot support to Joomla. Most popular sites are MCDONALD’S, PIZZA HUT, KELLOGG’S, First Cry, MITSUBISHI MOTORS, PORSCHE, Derbi etc..
Drupal: It is another open source content management system which supports a variety of websites ranging from personal web blogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal was designed by Dries Buytaert in 1999 and within a year because of its popularity it was made an open source. Drupal.org came online in 2001, and the Drupal community gained momentum in 2005. By using this free software package you can easily manage and publish your content with as much customization as you desire. Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Mindfire is what popular. The answer is each CMS has its own advantage while Drupal CMS development is getting a lot of traction with many reputed companies such as Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros etc and thousands of companies are embracing it.
Umbraco is another open source CMS platform that enables the user to publish his content on the internet. It is written in C# built on Microsoft’s ASP .NET framework and is especially for .NET developers. It is generally not used for making personal blog but it is best suited for those companies which are running big sites. More than 110,000 sites trust Umbraco. Great for building best practice search engine optimized sites, Google loves it! Easy to Integrate Google Analytics, so you can see how well your site is performing. Can allocate user permissions, allowing each department to manage their own section of the site. Hence CMS is an evergreen technology.
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