CMS

As you're probably aware, WordPress is quite possibly the best blogging software out there. It is easy to use, open source (read: free), and has tons of plugins to extend its functionality. But what you might not know is there are two ways of setting up your blog: self-hosting the WordPress software, and hosting it with Wordpress.com.

For many small business owners, a website can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, a website provides a business with a great way to market their products/services to people far beyond the company's geographical location.

On the other hand, a website either means paying a lot of money for someone to maintain it and make even small content updates, or the owner must learn HTML, graphic design, coding and a lot of other skills to keep the website going. And there's still no guarantee that the site will draw in visitors and convert them into customers.

One of the great features of Wordpress is that you can set up your site to send an email every time a comment needs approval. Drupal doesn't come with this functionality out of the box, but we're going to show you how to do it yourself using the module Workflow-ng and some basic user configurations.

We here at Two Trees media are big fans of Drupal, an über-powerful open source content management system. But it's really more than a CMS; it can be configured as an e-commerce platform, blog back-end, project collaboration tool, social networking software, or pretty much anything you can hope a website can do.