CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. Use it to make a home page for your family -- or your multinational corporation!

  • SEO Friendly URLs
  • Integrated and online help
  • Modular and extensible
  • Easy user and group management
  • Group-based permission system

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CMSMS makes it easy to set up a site and then hand it over to non-techies to maintain. Unlike other CMS packages, it isn't over-complex, and it isn't just for blogs. The drop-down site navigation menus are the icing on the cake: just so easy to use. There's an excellent support forum too.
Martin Johnson (IMBA-UK)

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CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their own sites with a minimum of fuss.

From a simple brochure site to a complex portal, CMS Made Simple puts the power of a modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips. And best of all, it's free!

Latest News

3rd workshop for Dutch CMS Made Simple users on January 23
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 posted by Ronny Krijt
Coming January 23, starting at 11:00 AM, the third Dutch-speaking CMSMS users workshop will be held. The location chosen is Amersfoort (again), which lies in the center of the Netherlands. The agenda will be quite diverse. For the full agenda (in Dutch), click here.
For the forum-post (in Dutch) with the list of registered users, check [...]

CMS Made Simple Reaches Three Quarters of a Million Downloads.
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 posted by Robert Campbell
Today CMS Made Simple, our favorite award winning Open Source Content Management System reached an important milestone: we surpassed 750,000 downloads since the original release of CMS Made Simple 0.1 in July of 2004! Reflecting the growing favor for CMSMS in the web development community, these downloads demonstrate that people agree: CMS Made Simple is [...]

Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.6.6 ? Bonde
Sat, 03 Oct 2009 posted by Robert Campbell
This is primarily a bugfix release again… trimming off of the issues that our users have encountered, particularly those related to those using pretty urls which append a / to all the urls (I still don’t know why people do this…. why not use .php or .html for extensions, I dunno).
Additionally, we think we’ve solved [...]

DNS Outage [Fixed]
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 posted by Ted Kulp
Just a quick word on the outage on Friday night.
Since the very beginning, CMSMS has been using Zoneedit as their DNS hosting provider. This was in the days before every domain registrar offering their own DNS hosting, so Zoneedit was the perfect solution for some quick, free DNS hosting. Since budget was such [...]