Long ago, when the Web was young, it was much easier to decide how to build a website. Open Notepad, or if you are a professional code easier plain text editor and have at it. There was no claim of 4 development environments for generations no hosting providers, with 8 separate site builders on board, and Content Management System (CMS) is always part of a dark and distant future. Blogging not even been invented. An electronic community? This was the area of the BBS (Bulletin Board System) SysOp (System Operator). Running DOS. Often in a dial-up connection.

What a difference a dozen years before! Only recently, it seemed I use some platforms to create my site, I decided to take stock and count up (it's a curse to be an accountant in time) results are almost frightening.

I am 12 with platform independent development with a little more under review. In no order of importance, are:

Joomla - The greatest CMS in use today

WordPress - Again, perhaps the platform of the most popular blogs

Blogger - Another blogging platform

PostNuke - The owner of a leading CMS platforms - PHPNuke

MediaWiki - The platform is in great sites like Wikipedia and wikiHow

Memberspeed - A CMS Property Marketing

Niches-In-A-Box - A platform for niche marketing Website

Drupal - a popular CMS Joomla and rival

Niche Video SiteBuilder - A development platform for Web video

- VBulletin property used as the platform Forum

SMF - Simple Machines Forum - a platform for huge Source Forum

Web Wyvern - almost idiot-proof the house CMS target entry-level users

Why am I use different tools for many? Easy. You who never goes together. If you need a forum, usually using Fireboard is fully integrated in the CMS Joomla - simple, elegant and powerful. If you want an "independent" forum, I move up SMF - simply the most solid and dependable, but a forum for open source available. If it's for a site which has high visibility and needs to scale, it makes no sense to screw everyone, but vBulletin.

Turn the party e-community things, there are times when it is necessary to brutal. Drupal is very good. For community sites each day, nothing better than Joomla - especially when you are in search of that special (based on extensions 2500 and counting). Robust data for site taken without the learning curve of a Joomla or Drupal script, nothing compares to the Wyvern Web.

Special need for special tools, and MediaWiki sites for collaborative editing, niche-In-A-Box for Web sites and specialty niche Niche Video SiteBuilder for a presence virtually instantaneous video are the platforms of the day.

The end result is that you must think very carefully about the different tools and platform for the task. It is easy to fall in routine use what is most comfortable. What we know already. I've been there and done that. Current means suggest another way. Expand your skills (or those who collect have) some of these Arenas is a powerful business decision.

Steve is a CPA, real estate developer and e-community designer who has been an online entrepreneur since the dialup days of the early 90's. Steve runs a free webinar weekly that introduces aspiring marketers to tactics from novice to advanced. Check the calendar at http://bigdogmentoring.com

Trying to make an account at a hosted MediaWiki Wikipedia?

Ok, so I'm doing an account for http://www.disneyonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page but when I click the last button on the account, there is no way to create an account, you can get, and I really want an account. Does someone know how? I know what you're talking about, but nobody in the / creat one thing in mind. I've seen, thanks to other Wikipedias, but not this one.

Look for a link titled "You do not have an account? Create a" Send to someone there and have someone do it for you

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