OneFileCMS is a flat, light, one file CMS (Content Management System) entirely contained in an easy-to-implement, highly customizable, database-less PHP script.

Coupling a utilitarian code editor with all the basic necessities of an FTP application, OneFileCMS can maintain a whole website completely in-browser without any external programs.

Some of the features are:

• Validating, semantic, and commented markup. Tested in FF, Safari, and IE7/IE8.
• Small footprint (24 kb)
• Possibly the easiest installation process ever
• All the basic features of an FTP application like renaming, deleting, copying, and uploading
• Gracefully degrading CSS and Javascript
• 100% re-brandable with title/footer text stored in variables and a modifiable filename

URL: http://onefilecms.com/

Constructr CMS is a new Content management System with a couple of modern Features: Clean URLs, Caching, NestedSets Page Tree, multilangual Backend,… just try – it is and will forever be freely available.

The list of the main features of Constructr looks like:

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Hippo CMS is an open source information centered content management system. It’s targetted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like websites, intranets, PDAs and print (also called Enterprise Content Management). It facilitates an open and flexible way of using your information by following international accepted open standards. Hippo CMS is user friendly, has an open architecture and is designed for interoperability with existing environments.

Bricolage, an open-source enterprise-class content management system, greatly simplifies the complex tasks of creating, managing, and publishing the vast libraries of content essential to any organization. With advanced features such as fully-configurable workflows, customizable document types, multisite management capabilities, and comprehensive Perl- and PHP-based templating support, Bricolage has been designed from the ground-up to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations around the world.

Ariadne CMS is an Open Source, Multilingual Web Application Server and Content Management System built on PHP. Ariadne has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and an extremely flexible and easy to use WYSIWYG editor. Ariadne has been used for anything from a personal website to an enterprise portal with more than a million pages of content. It can be used as a very friendly CMS, with almost no knowledge about CMS systems or HTML required, or a full featured enterprise portal with editorial workflow, staging, branding, etc.

Mephisto is a kick ass web publishing system. It’s a blog engine with some simple CMS-ish concepts (sections, pages), a very flexible templating system, and an aggressive caching scheme that takes advantage of your web server’s best traits. Mephisto’s core features include: a beautiful admin interface, Slick Asset Management, Flexible Liquid templating system, ATOM feeds, converters for wordpress, typo, movable type, dodgy xml-rpc api support and much more.

The gelato CMS is an open source content managament sytem built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.

Citru CMS is a lightweight, highly versatile content management system aimed at web developers. Citru is created for developers. You must know a bit more to get it working, but instead you can stay in control. By editing content in it’s context you always know exactly what you’re changing and can immediately see the result. Instead of readymade templates Citru gives you full control over your layout. Build your site in html and put modules where you normally would have had content. The built in permissions system lets you set permissions on a module-instance or module-type basis. It also supports both users and groups.

So you need a simply Cntent Management System? Just to change some text on your website? No need for more? Then check out www.lilcms.com. This CMS basically allows an user to change text on web pages only! If you were looking for more than that, Lil’ CMS isn’t for you!

The main problem with most other CMSs is that they’re just not easy for content editors to use. This defeats the purpose of using a CMS in the first place- to allow non-technical people to change content. CushyCMS is a Content Management System created with one goal in mind: ease of use.
The other big problem we’ve tackled is implementation. Traditionally you could spend days installing and implementing a CMS and then figuring how to customize it. Most require some form of programming knowledge. CushyCMS literally takes minutes to implement and is a cinch to use. If you can add CSS classes to HTML tags then you can implement CushyCMS.

The site says: “1024 is a PHP, MySQL based Content Management System. 1024 is one of a few CMS’s leading the way with the implementation of the AJAX technology into all its areas. This includes dynamic adminstration and user interaction. 1024 offers you to ability to set up your own community forums, download area, news posts, member management and more. What your site does is up to you, you can control whats in and whats out. From the web based installation to setting up your web site moderators, the 1024 system will be able to cater for all your needs.” so if you are looking for some new CMS Sytsem maybe you want to try it.

Nuxeo 5 is a robust, extensible, global, standards-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution available as Open Source Software (OSS). Nuxeo 5 is designed to enable building and running a large range of applications within the ECM scope, closely matching enterprises’ needs from the server to the desktop. Some features are: Document Management, Digital Assets Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Business Process Management and much more

Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. SOme of the features are: Unlimited hierarchical page structure, Flexible page content: body, sidebar, extended, summary, Per page layout customization, Simple and reusable content snippets, Drag and drop page ordering, Password protected adminstration, Simple user and permission management, File manager allows you to upload, browse and edit files.

“OpenCms is a website content management system (CMS) that allows to maintain a public website, an Extranet or an Intranet with little or no help by an external agency or Internet professional.” This looks very interesting. Definatly worth a look!

This one is new to me. Grab the feature list here and the demo here. So if you are looking for something new to try out …

If you don´t have a database then this CMS might be the right one for you: MeshCMS is an online editing system written in Java. It provides a set of features usually included in a CMS, but it uses a more traditional approach: pages are stored in regular HTML files and all additional features are file-based, without the need of a database.

The AxCMS.net is a cost free Enterprise Content Management System. By integrating numerous modules the system offers a comprehensive list of features for creating and managing Inter-, Extra- and Intranet-presentations. The AxCMS.net is completely based on Microsoft .NET technology and XML Web Services

BLOG:CMS is a feature-packed personal publishing system, developed by Radek Hulán. It includes state-of-the-art weblog, forum, wiki engine, news aggregator (atom / rss), and photo gallery.

FarCry CMS is a cutting edge ColdFusion MX application framework for web based content management that blends the very best of open source development with commercial backing and support.

Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers.