Ever increasing options are populating the market when it comes to aggregating and presenting learning materials in an online environment. Three options are explored in this blog post.
WordPress - WordPress.org, not to be confused with WordPress.com, is a free open source software. (WordPress.com is a web hosting service.) Originally designed as an online journaling, web logging - blogging - service, WP has greatly evolved. With the availability of numerous plug-ins that morph it into a commerce site (Woo-Commerce, Shop, Foxy Cart, Cart 66 ), social media hub, and membership area platform that can capture e-mail addresses on its landing pages, WP can be just about anything a user would want. Theme templates allow for the easy customization of the site's look and feel. WP requires a database so a server is needed. Just about all web server services work alike. The location of your server if the user is in US but her server in India makes no difference as if it were located in nearby France.
Tumblr - Tumblr is the conceptual blend of a Content Management System + Social Media Platform. It is free although it is not open source so a user can not customize it beyond the built-in customization features. Tumblr is mainly used for blogging and receives major amounts of traffick daily. If used as a CMS, it also requires a server to connect to its database from which it runs.
Stacey - Stacey offers a new technology for CMSs. It does not require database setup nor the installation of text files. It is dubbed the "Lightweight CMS." A user just goes to the directory, copies the application, places the application on her server in a new directory associated with her site's domain name, runs it and she's done! There are no login screens nor admin interface.
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