Inexpensive and Free CMS’s

Catching up on a backlog of reading, I ran across an excellent item in Barry Parr‘s MediaSavvy weblog, in which he reviews inexpensive and free content management systems. To make the list, a CMS had to cost no more than $200 for a commercial license. It’s amazing what you can get for that price. Parr looks at options like Blogger (free), Movable Type, Drupal, and several others. A promising newcomer is Expression Engine, from the developer behind pMachine. Parr uses Expression Engine on a community citizen-journalism site he’s created called Coastsider. (I’ll be testing out that CMS for a school website that a fellow parent and I run.)