Zencart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.
- easy installation
- multiple customer modes
- unlimited category depth
- multiple sales and discounts
- multiple display modes
and…
- XHTML template system
- unlimited extra pages
- multiple ad banner controller
- multiple shipping options
- multiple payment options
plus…
- newsletter manager
- discount coupons
- gift certificates
- featured products
- quantity discounts
Development Status: Production/Stable
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Windows, Linux
TYPO3 CMS
TYPO3 is a small to midsize enterprise-class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accomodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension.
For authors, TYPO3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages, using sophisticated functions in just a few clicks of the mouse.
With TYPO3, everyone can participate in web-based communication and customer relations. Seamless integration of multimedia content types and dynamic server-side image manipulation and generation are among the numerous standard options inside this comprehensive toolbox for web-based communication. Also included is an internal messaging and workflow communication system for shared authoring and collaboration.
For administrators and content managers, TYPO3 features an extremely detailed user permissions system for implementing professional content creation and editing workflows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform-independent application that can be used with virtually every browser available.
Development Status: Mature
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Unix, Windows (any)
Joomla
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Development Status: Mature
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: linux, windows, freebsd, osx








