Name: LightCMS (discontinued)
Rating: 6.1 (2 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Innovation Management

PHP Frameworks

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Text Editors

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enhanced 911 (E911)

Meeting Management

PDF Editors

Payment Facilitation

Supply Chain Management

Visitor Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Blockchain Payments

Crypto Asset Management

Hedge Fund

Investor Relations

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Composable Infrastructure

Custom Software Development Services

Data Masking

Database Performance Monitoring

Email Encryption

Endpoint Security

Firewall

Fraud Detection

IT Asset Disposal

Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

Log Management

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

NoSQL Databases

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Storage Management

Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

Wireless LAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Channel Management

Content Management

Creative Collaboration

Domain Registration Services

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Native Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Translation

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

File Integrity Monitoring

Security

3D Modeling

Membership Management

Real Estate

Simulation

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LightCMS, from NetSuite, was a cloud-based content management system for building websites and eCommerce storefronts. It is designed to be used by individuals, non-profits, and small to medium-sized businesses. The product has been discontinued.

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Content management systems (CMS) are software platforms used to create, manage, and publish digital content. They provide a user-friendly interface to handle tasks like editing and formatting without requiring deep technical knowledge. Most CMS solutions support collaboration, workflow automation, and multi-channel delivery, including headless architecture. Explore our verified user reviews and comparisons to find the best content management system for your business needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Web Content Creation

Web Content Management

Role-based user permissions

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Community / comment management

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Features that support the creation of website content.

What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.

Content versioning

The system tracks versions or has some sort of content archiving in place, so that users can go back to a previous version of the website if problems arise.

The admin page is easy to navigate and use.

The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.

A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.

The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.

The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.

Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.

Content scheduling

Users can schedule content to publish at a certain date and time.

Internal content search

Users can use a search index to find content.

Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.

The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

Browser compatibility

The CMS helps users build webpages that function well on all or most Internet browsers.

Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.

Page caching

The CMS uses page, template, query and tag caching to optimize website speed.

Availability / breadth of extensions

There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.

Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart

The CMS natively allows for product management, including pricing and shopping cart functionality.

E-commerce / shopping cart extension

The CMS has an extension or plug-in that allows for product management, including pricing and shopping cart functionality.

Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.

Import / export

Users can batch import or export content.

Website analytics

Built-in feature or plugin allows administrators to evaluate site traffic.

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

Internationalization / multi-language

The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

Multi-factor authentication

User-level audit trail

Version history

Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework

Which programming language is the CMS and most extensions written in?

Python

Java

.NET

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Server side

Simple to implement

Intuitive and simple

Trying to solve

Easiest to use

Light weight

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

As web designers and front-end coders, we use LightCMS as one of our go-to content management systems for our client's websites. It is a hosted CMS that provides us with two things a "from scratch" website project needs: hosting and data-driven modules. We no longer had to rely on internal hosting or bulk hosting solutions nor did we have to involve developers at additional cost to build basic data functionalities. Our group of 6 designers and content specialists are using it daily.

LightCMS provides all the major functionality 90% of sites need. It keeps out of its own way by making these solutions intuitive and simple and not trying to solve every problem for everyone which would over-complicate the tool-set.
This is the easiest to use CMS we have ever seen. I tell my client's that if they can make a Facebook post, they can manage their website, and it's true. Their UI is so easy and keeps getting easier to use. Untrained users get it in minutes and are able to manage their sites without our help.
LightCMS's code is simple and light-weight. Sites are fast and the CMS doesnt get in the way of performance.
You can do almost anything you want (except server-side programming) with LightCMS. So, we can create any design we want and it works great with Light CMS's tokens and editable regions concept (which is also simple to implement.)
Constantly upgraded and fixed, the product is 1000x better after 10 years of working with it, but is still simple and not bloated.

While keeping it simple is LightCMS's thing, some of the elements/modules could use deeper options or control for advanced users.
Some content, such as calendars, cannot have data exported/imported easily.
Support was amazing 10 years ago. We openly talked about how awesome they were... it isn't as good as it once was, but is still way above almost every support of other CMS systems we have used.

LightCMS (discontinued)

Overview

What is LightCMS (discontinued)?