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<p>This year, the battle to win Best Small to Midsize Business CMS was a hard-fought one with a ton of amazing contenders vying for the top spot. Today, we're going to announce who came out on top in this year's awards.</p>
<p>A CMS that is geared towards Small to Midsize Businesses must be able to cover a wide range of functionality and, ideally, integrate more than one component. Why? It's simple. Businesses already have a ton of overhead on average and any product that can integrate multiple layers of functionality while reducing the reliance on additional products is going to get a leg up on the competition. Businesses don't want to have to manage licensing and fees for Marketing Suites, CRM platforms, Ecommerce Solutions, Hosting, etc, etc. They want a solution that can offer as much functionality as possible with as little a learning curve as possible.</p>
<p>This year, more than last, we can see this choice reflected in the nominees that were part of the award run.</p>
<p>The nominees, as a refresher, were:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/products/adobe-business-catalyst/">Adobe Business Catalyst</a></li>
<li><a href="/products/ingeniux/"> Ingeniux </a></li>
<li><a href="/products/dnn-evoq-content/"> DNN Evoq Content </a></li>
<li><a href="/products/percussion/"> Percussion </a></li>
<li><a href="/products/sitefinity/"> Sitefinity </a></li>
</ul>
<p>While it certainly was a hard fought battle but only one can be named the winner and the People's Choice for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS this year is…</p>
<h3><img style="max-width:150px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/best-small-to-midsize-business-cms150x0.png" /></h3>
<h3>DNN Evoq Content!</h3>
<p>DNN Evoq™ Content, formerly known as DotNetNuke® Professional Edition, is a business solution that helps bring your website to life with captivating content and engaging interactions. Users can add and edit content through a standard browser with no IT support.</p>
<p>Whether you’re in Marketing, Editorial or the C-Suite, Evoq™ Content provides a simple CMS and workflow tools suited to non-technical users.</p>
<p>Learn more about <a href="/products/dnn-evoq-content/">DNN Evoq Content</a></p>
<p>Congratulations to the DNN Evoq Content team on their win! Stay tuned to find out who walks away with the Critics Choice Award (selected by our panel of judges) coming soon.</p>


2013 People's Choice Winner for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS

mike-johnston

<p>If you've been waiting to cast your vote for your favorites in the People's Choice Awards, now is the time to do so.</p><p>Voting has officially opened and you may now <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">cast your vote</a>! So head on over to our <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">awards page</a> and submit your favorites.</p><p>If you are in the running, we have created a handy badge you can use to spur interest...</p><p>Simply download the graphic (shown below) and link it to <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">https://www.cmscritic.com/critics-choice-cms-awards/</a>.</p><p>For those who missed it, here are the nominees in each category:</p><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Open Source CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-open-source-cms-nominees">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://modx.com/">MODx</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.dnnsoftware.com/">DNN Platform</a></li><li><a href="/products/liferay">Liferay</a></li><li><a href="/products/processwire/">Processwire</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://e107.org/">e107</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Free CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-free-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://processwire.com/">Processwire</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://tiki.org/HomePage">Tiki</a></li><li><a href="/products/concrete-cms">Concrete5</a></li><li><a href="/products/wordpress/">WordPress</a></li><li><a href="/products/umbraco/">Umbraco</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Small to Midsize Business CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-small-to-midsize-business-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>Adobe Business Catalyst</li><li><a href="/products/ingeniux/">Ingeniux</a></li><li><a href="/products/kentico/">Kentico</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.percussion.com/">Percussion</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.progress.com/sitefinity-cms">Sitefinity</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Enterprise CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-enterprise-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com/solutions/web-experience-management.html">Adobe Experience Manager</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hannonhill.com/products/cascade-cms/index.html">Cascade Server</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.optimizely.com/">EpiServer</a></li><li><a href="/products/liferay/">Liferay</a></li><li><a href="/products/sitecore/">Sitecore</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best eCommerce Solution </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-ecommerce-solution-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>3dcart</li><li>Aspxcommerce</li><li><a href="/products/bigcommerce/">BigCommerce</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://business.adobe.com/products/magento/magento-commerce.html">Magento</a></li><li><a href="/products/shopify/">Shopify</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Website Builder</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-website-builder-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>Adobe Business Catalyst</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.jimdo.com/">Jimdo</a></li><li><a href="/products/squarespace/">Squarespace</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ucoz.com/">UCoz</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.webydo.com/">Webydo</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Forum Solution </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-forum-solution-nominees">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://vanillaforums.org/">Vanilla Forums</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://nodebb.org/">NodeBB</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.simplemachines.org/">Simple Machines Forum</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.vbulletin.com/">VBulletin</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.invisionpower.com/">Invision Power Board (IPBoard)</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Social Networking Solution</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-social-networking-solution-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.dnnsoftware.com/products/evoq-engage">Evoq Social</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.phpfox.com/">PHPFox</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.oxwall.com/">Oxwall</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.socialcore.com">SocialCore</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://socialengine.com/">Social Engine</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Hosted/Cloud CMS </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-cloud">Acquia Cloud</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://agilitycms.com/">Agility CMS</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.paperthin.com/products/commonspot-cms.cfm">CommonSpot</a></li><li>Gutensite</li></ol><p>Best of luck to all who are in the running!</p>

It's Official! Voting is Now Open for the People's Choice Awards!

<p>This year, the Best Small to Midsize Business CMS category was quite active with far more nominations than we expected from a variety of great products that are on the market today.</p>
<p>We are very happy to announce this year's nominees for the 2013 People's Choice award for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS.</p>
<p>Don't forget to check back on September 1, 2013 to begin voting on the <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">awards page</a>.</p>
<h3>Adobe Business Catalyst</h3>
<p>Business Catalyst (BC) is an all-in-one business website and online marketing solution, built for web designers. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.</p>
<p><a href="/products/adobe-business-catalyst/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Ingeniux</h3>
<p>Ingeniux is the only web experience management platform architected for the cloud. Featuring unparalleled scalability, lower total cost of ownership, and innovative content management software, Ingeniux empowers organizations to manage world-class websites and vibrant online communities across desktop web, mobile, and tablet devices.</p>
<p><a href="/products/ingeniux/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Evoq</h3>
<p>Evoq Content, formerly known as DotNetNuke Professional Edition, is a business solution that helps bring your website to life with captivating content and engaging interactions. Users can add and edit content through a standard browser with no IT support.</p>
<p><a href="/products/dnn-evoq-content/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Percussion CM1</h3>
<p>Percussion makes it easy and affordable to design and maintain an engaging and modern website. Drive change quickly to the web to increase leads and conversion rates.</p>
<p><a href="/products/percussion/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Sitefinity</h3>
<p>Sitefinity by Telerik is an ASP.NET web content management platform engineered to make managing your website a more positive, empowering and usable experience. Sitefinity is the first and only CMS to enable enterprises to take full advantage of all three mobile development strategies— Responsive Web Design, mobile websites, and mobile apps, easily and effectively—and all from one CMS user interface.</p>
<p><a href="/products/sitefinity/">Learn more.</a></p>
<p>Best of luck to all who were nominated! Be sure to check back on September 1, 2013 to begin the voting process.</p>


Announcing the People's Choice for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS Nominees!

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<p>Percussion Software <a href="/percussion-launches-cm1-version-2-with-social-engagement-blogging-and-more/">announced</a> the release of version 2 of their popular Percussion CM1 WCM today and I thought I'd share my Percussion CMS Review, having recently had an opportunity to test it out.</p>
<p>One of the first things I noticed, having never had an opportunity to explore CM1 before, was the slick look and feel that their interface offers. CM1 is beautifully laid out with an attractive dashboard that features a number of modules that can be added with drag and drop functionality. This allows the user to quickly build a high level overview of their site(s) complete with analytics and more.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/nplogo_crtpy2.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Not only does it look good, it's snappy and responsive as well. Almost everything is drag and drop enabled and adding and modifying content, navigation and widgets is incredibly easy (and fun) to do.</p>
<p>There are a number of highly useful widgets that can be added to your dashboards. Once specific one I am fond of is the SEO audit module. As you can see in the screenshot below, it gives you a quick list of issues that should be corrected to attain maximum SEO value from your content.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/percussion-seo-audit-module-450x159.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Another great dashboard widget is the “What's Working” widget. This one allows you to set targets and goals for your various content (ie: number of visits, etc) and keep an eye on how well your content is performing with regards to those metrics. This is great for a quick high level overview of how well content from various editors is performing, for example.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dudalogo-sq_100x100_qk4prk.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Ok, so we've established that the dashboard is slick and offers a number of great options. What about the rest of the system? Well, let's say you are looking to add a new site. First off, you are prompted to select a template with an easy to use interface (shown below).</p>
<p>To modify or select a template for your page, you simply scroll through a list of available options and choose one:</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/selecting-a-page-template-450x298.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>These templates can, of course, be modified at a later date or the code edited as well if you choose to add your own capabilities. Once you've got the template selected, there is a wide array of widgets available that you can add to your pages to allow extended functionality. Adding widgets and modifying the layout is as simple as drag and drop designing.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine-hosting_koyxad.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>To modify the widgets once you've added them, simply double click to activate the edit window and you're off.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine-hosting-1_jlzshd.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Looking to change the site's navigation?  It's just as easy. Take a look at how simple it is to modify. You select your site:</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/percussion-nav-1-450x334_ilgr1t.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Then you drag and drop your pages wherever you wish them to appear within the navigation tree:</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/percussion-nav2-450x279.png" alt="Percussion CMS Review" /></p>
<p>Simply using drag and drop, the site will rearrange the menus automatically and ensure that all links work as they should.</p>
<p>Percussion's system is without a doubt, one of the most attractive interfaces I have seen with a slick combination of speed, simplicity and beauty that makes it a pleasure to work with.</p>
<p>The system comes with plenty of other functionality such as unlimited content revisions (versioning), excellent media management and multi-site support.</p>
<p>So where does it falter?</p>
<p>Honestly, I've yet to find anything about the system that I didn't like. For the price point, Percussion is an excellent system.</p>
<p>The only caution I would throw out is to ensure that you understand the market that it is targeted towards. This is a WCM, and as such, it's designed to allow you to put your organization online. There is a distinct difference between a WCM and a CMS and it's important to understand what that difference is before you make your selection.  I've put together an article to assist: <a href="/cms-or-wcm-which-is-which/">CMS or WCM – Which is Which?</a></p>
<p>You can learn more about Percussion from their website: <a href="http://www.percussion.com">http://www.percussion.com</a></p>
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