Abstract:

In this article the most popular CMS systems now widely used by web developers were analyzed. These systems are suitable for the creation of electronic educational resources. There were considered the most popular free content management systems, such as: WordPress, Joomla!, MODx, Drupal, DataLife Engine, uCoz, Setup.ru, Nethouse. Also, a comparative analysis of free CMS was carried out according to the selected criteria including open source, programming language knowledge, the availability of ready-made templates, the system complexity level, the popularity among developers, support for additional modules, the presence of free hosting, distribution presence, the presence of localization of the programming language used by the system, databases used, security level.

Keywords: Content Management System (CMS), Content Management Framework (CMF), Electronic Educational Resources (EER), WordPress, Joomla!, MODx, Drupal, DataLife Engine, uCoz, Setup.ru, Nethouse, mivar