10 non-mainstream content management systems you will find in this article  – that do not get as much attention as their most popular – but they should for their benefits.

When it comes to content management systems (CMS) there are so many options to choose from. They are all different in technology, structure, speed and licensing. You’ve probably heard of the popular CMS such as Joomla!, Y textpattern, Drupal etc but if you want to test a platform that is slightly less than the mainstream  check these excellent alternatives.

There are many content management systems, if your favorite is not here to share it with us in the comments.

Concrete5

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Concrete5 is a robust content management system that breeze to use. So you could design a Web page by the ‘live’ in ‘edit mode’, making the regions and the elements on the page you see is changed. You can also use Google Analytics which can be easily integrated right into the site made.

Radiant CMS

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Radiant CMS focuses on working with small project teams . It can allow multiple users, to edit pages and be able to publish/unpublish pages as required by the user.

CushyCMS

CrushyCMS is a very simple, and beats Joomla to its simplecity. It allows users to safely edit content, without the need of any programming.

Symphony

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Symphony, made by Overture, using XSLT to give developers flexibility in adjusting the symphonic design code. If you do not know much about XSLT, Overture offers many videos on their site for your help. It is however, on the technical side.

MODx

MODx is both a content management system based and written for PHP and to be used for web applications. MODx attaches great importance to Web standards, thus building XHTML 1.1 strict compliant with Web sites easily.

Plone CMS

Plone CMS is a very well feature packed CMS based on the Zope web application. It is supported by a large and active developer community, it will have no difficulty in finding help.

Railfrog

Rail frog is one of the few CMS built on top of Ruby on Rails Web Application Framework (food Web applications like Twitter and popular base). Hint: AJAX and the new technologies are all implemended into this system.

TYPO3 CMS

TYPO3 is an open source-level enterprise content management system is aimed at providing Web sites and intranets inside the comoany. While many CMS trying to be simple and basic Typo3 offers users advanced and powerful features to so that you can perform the complex tasks and also can integrate it with other applications.

SilverStripe

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Silver Stripe is based on PHP open source content management system. We saved best for last; with secured encryption, to managing newsletters and blogs. This is the Ultimate joomla replacement for any CMS. Next time you try joomla 1.5, make sure you try Silverstripe first.

ExpressionEngine

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Expression Engine is known for its flexibility and intuitive template engine that allows developers to easily mold of CMS in use. It was built on a cache that significantly reduces the load on the server but it is becoming more mainstream which could not be all that bad though, only time will tell.