This month marks a new milestone for CMS Report, the blog, news, and aggregated website turned three years old. When I wrote the first post, I wasn't quite sure where I wanted to take the site, but I knew my enthusiasm for Web content management systems would get me wherever I needed to go. Three years later, CMSReport.com has seen over 1,700 original articles posted at the site. Pleasing to me, not all of these posts were written by me as I have always appreciated the contributions of content by others here at the site.
During the life of CMSReport.com, I have occasionally been labeled by others as an expert in content management systems. I've never been comfortable with the expert label for a couple of reasons. First, I'm well aware of some very qualified leaders in the content management field that easily make me look like the amateur that I am. Secondly, the strength of CMS Report has really never come from what I know about CMS. Instead, I believe the strength and survival of this site has always been dependent on what I do not know about CMS but enthusiastically want to learn.
I've learned a lot about Web CMS since my early adventures into open source applications such as SMF, Wordpress, Drupal, and even Mambo. Today, we put focus on a mix of open source, propriety, community, and propriety content management systems. In all this time, I still believe my first observations for the need of sites like CMSReport.com hold true:
Building a site for the Internet, whether for business or personal use, can be overwhelming. Where do you start? Well that's the question I would like to help answer.
