8 best free tools to create your website

Posted on November 7th, 2010. Written by Michaël Ambass.

CMS Selection

Internet is the new culture, it is used for everything: finding a recipe, gather information, consult the news, everything !
With the growing prominence of web culture, creating a website is primordial to develop your business.

Many free tools are created to fulfill the desire of users to create their website easily.
Here is a selection of 8 best free tools that let you set up your website.


# 1 – WordPress

WordPressWordPress is the best known blogging platform in the world, it also (especially since version 3) allow to make websites that showcase, you can use it to developp your business websites. WordPress is easy to use and is set up very quickly. The community around WordPress is continually growing and is already very large, over 25 million webmasters already trust WordPress.

Visit WordPress official website


# 2 – Joomla

JoomlaJoomla is an old CMS (Content Management System) that always know his success. Joomla allows setting up a website very easily and offers a lot of opportunities to administrators. You can use it to make static websites, portfolios and even online shops. Joomla can be easily adapted to any type of project. The only criticism that can be made to Joomla is its security problems, the discovery of flaws Joomla is very common.

Visit Joomla! official website


# 3 – Drupal

DrupalDrupal is a Content Management System that know a hudge evolution over the past few years. Easy to use, Drupal enables a large number of projects without worry. Flexible and powerful, he allow to create small website to a complete company web application. Active with more than 3,000 developers at his side, Drupal is one obvious choice of CMS.

Visit Drupal official website


# 4 – CMS Made Simple

CMS Made SimpleLike Joomla, CMS Made Simple is a long-standing resistance CMS that exist for many years. As its name suggests CMS Made Simple (which can be named CMSMS) is very simple to use. More suited to achieving showcase website, it is a great choice for creating his website.

Visit CMS Made Simple official website


# 5 – Tomato CMS

TomatoCMSA tool for creating Web fairly new but very powerful. Tomato CMS is unique in having been developed under the famous PHP framework “Zend Framework“. Allowing a huge amount of functionality, Tomato CMS allows the creation of complex website. It’s a CMS that requires a lot of learning time.

Visit Tomato CMS official website


# 6 – Dotclear

DotClearMore suited to creating a blog, with some modifications Dotclear can be used without problems in a showcase website project. Simple, fast and efficient, DotClear remains one of the indispensable tools in the field of website development.

Visit Dotclear official website


# 7 – TYPO3

TYPO3The power: TYPO3. A CMS that despite the fact that is very heavy, offers an unimaginable amount of features to make any kind of web project. Backed by its very active community, TYPO3 is a professional choice for creating website. Attention to beginners, TYPO3 requires a long apprenticeship.

Visit TYPO3 official website


# 8 – SPIP

SPIPSPIP is a CMS that I particularly appreciated, he is very simple et allow a lot of things with its templating system to achieve a huge amount of project. Light, fast and easy it remains a top choice for making showcase site or website for informational purposes.

Visit SPIP official website

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Michaël Ambass

My name is Michael Ambass, I'm 21 and I live in Switzerland (Nyon). I am passionate about Internet technologies for 10 years. I created Netisme to share my knowledge in this activity.

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  1. Thank for this post, great tools list !

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