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Light CMS

Written by:  • Edited by: Michele McDonough
Updated Sep 8, 2009 • Related Guides: CMS | HTML
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Web designers: Want a way to build websites, track and bill clients with ease? Try Light CMS--an easy to use, free to try, content management system designed specifically to help web design businesses.

Who Should Use Light CMS?

Light CMS is an easy-to-use, brandable, content management system designed for web designers. With the content mangagment system, designers can create a website, create a user for a client, let them test drive it, and then bill them for it. Those who are not web designers can also use the Light CMS without the reseller feature. For anyone who is interested, there's a free version of the program, with instant, full access to the program, for an unlimited amount of time.

Light CMS Pricing
Rating Excellent

There are several different plans to meet the needs of a variety of situations. Never pay until an upgrade is needed. The plans are as follows:

  • Free: 3 pages, 10 MB storage, and 1 user.
  • Basic: 10 pages, 500 MB storage, and 1 user. $19/month.
  • Plus: 25 pages, 1 GB storage, and 2 users. $29/month.
  • Advanced: 50 pages, 3 GB storage, 5 users. $49/month.
  • Pro: Unlimited pages, 6 GB storage, 10 users. $69/month.
  • Premier: Unlimited pages, 12 GB storage, unlimited users. $99/month.

Light CMS Features
Rating Excellent

Features of the Light CMS include:

  • Free hosting with each plan.
  • WYSIWYG editor.
  • Support for video.
  • Photo galleries.
  • Support for multiple browsers.
  • Support for blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting.
  • Support for calendars and event management.
  • Form builders.
  • E-commerce support for purchases and donations.
  • Tools for SEO.
  • Tools to control user permissions.
  • Resellers package

Light CMS Ease of Use
Rating Excellent

Signing up for a free account takes just a few minutes. Simply enter a website name, your first name, an email address, and optional telephone number, and information about who you are currently working with (if you're already in touch with a representative) and the site is created for you.

With the free account you can create a three page website using your own templates. There's even a barebones template available for download to make it easier. For people who are not web designers, there is a service that converts designs into HTML and CSS templates for $495 and takes just a few days.

Add unlimited elements, and add new pages. If necessary, upgrade your plan to add new users. Your complete website design can be done in just a few hours, including the from scratch template design.

Light CMS Reseller Program
Rating Excellent

This program is a great way to get started with a web design business. It's free, until you need to upgrade one of the websites on your account, to a paid plan. It's easy to brand Light CMS with your own business logo. Design a site for a client, add the client as a user and let them test the site. With the reseller plan, you choose whether or not you want to bill the client, or if Light CMS should bill the client. If you bill the client, you pay the base rate, and choose what to charge the client. If Light CMS bills the client, you tell them what to charge, and they forward the profit to you.

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Ryan Kettler Feb 4, 2010 8:34 AM
Thank You!
Hi Lucinda,

I appreciate you taking the time to review Eden! Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you before or after. Have a good one.

Thanks,
Ryan
Lucinda Watrous Jan 18, 2010 3:34 PM
Hi Ryan!
I would be glad to do a review soon, but as I am no longer the managing editor of this channel, I cannot promise when. I will be in touch soon and let you know when I will use the software and write the review. :)
Ryan Kettler Jan 18, 2010 2:09 PM
Preation's Eden Platform
Hi Lucinda. Thanks for review of Light CMS.

My name is Ryan Kettler and I am part of the team at Preation in Durham, North Carolina. We have built a new website content management and marketing system for small businesses called Eden. Eden allows anyone to update their website and optimize it for the search engines on their own. We believe that this solution is very important to small businesses because most of them cannot afford search engine optimization services from traditional consultants.

I would like to request that you write a review about Eden as well. I believe that your online visitors would be interested in Eden’s unique do-it-yourself search engine optimization features as well as the large number of easy website management features including: free professionally designed templates, real on-page editing, drag-and-drop page tree, photo galleries, forms, testimonials, slideshows, video, multi-tier navigation, calendars, and event registration. Full details about Eden’s features are available in the product tour on our website (http://www.preation.com/content/build/4756).

Eden is offered with no setup fees and it starts at just $10/month. A 15 day free trial is available at http://www.preation.com/freetrial/. If you decide to write a review of Eden please send us a link to it and we’ll link to your website from our blog.

Thanks for considering my request and I appreciate your time.
 
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