There are many reasons to choose UK web hosting and each provider will have their own unique benefits. Once you have made that decision you will also have many web applications to choose from to get your site up and running. Fortunately they are very user friendly and most of them can be used by novices without coding knowledge. The following would probably be the five best CMS or content management systems.
Most popular CMSs are free and open source. Drupal is one of the oldest and was open sourced in 2001. Once all the aspects are considered it is probably one of the best web applications to use. Next in line would probably be WordPress followed by Joomla hosting, Silver Stripe and Expression Engine.
Drupal is easiest to install although it might not take as little time as WordPress. Although it might not be as basic to use as other platforms it does have greater flexibility and functionality. The interface is distinctly different from other Content Management Systems (CMS) and it makes use of a control bar above each page. Along with Expression Engine it is best for SEO but it does have certain snags. It does not offer rich text editing for example so HTML is required for formatting.
All of these platforms are quite straightforward but they interfaces they use are quite different. In Drupal for example the content is presented in blocks. Each of these blocks is specific to a certain type of content. Joomla also uses categories but the content is also specific to a location on each page. Its administration page is quite different in that it is a single page that has all of the tools laid out on it.
Joomla is very straight forward to understand but it does not offer as much customization. All of the functions are very intuitive but don’t always offer as much as other platforms. Creating pages is simple but then it is not as easy to link that page to more than one menu. This platform also presents the most challenges for configuration.
WordPress shares features from both of these platforms. It also has a single administration page where all of the options and tools are presented. One can also remove functions that you don’t need from this page if you want to customize it to make it less cluttered. The CMS program is not the same as the free blog so you should remember that when looking for it.
There are a large number of templates that can be selected from in WordPress. These also combine very simply with widgets which make it easy to add functionality. They can also be moved around without having to change code at all. One of the easiest of these platforms to use is also Silver Stripe. With a WYSIWYG interface you can make changes very quickly. Customization also makes use of drag and drop functionality. Navigation is tree based and security and permissions are also easily customized.
The final web application that we are looking at it called Expression Engine. This is also a very flexible platform and offers no limitations on design. Knowledge of PHP is required but it is still very simple to use. Any of these would be a good choice to use with UK web hosting.