The choice of CMS for online store depends on correct the speed of loading of pages, its functionality, website performance in general. The cost of development of a resource also depends on the choice of the engine.
Joomla, OpenCMS, Drupal, WordPress and others belong to the free CMS programs which can be used for creation of online store. The most convenient free engine for online store is Joomla. It is more difficult than WordPress, but allows to expand possibilities of developers considerably. For this CMS the set of additional modules which is among as well online store is written. It allows to create the most difficult websites on the basis of Joomla. Besides, this engine, in comparison with the analogs, gives great opportunities for experiments with design. As for WordPress, it is not the best choice for creation of online stores. Despite great popularity, the program is suitable for creation of the small information websites and blogs better. Drupal – one more quite good CMS, but also not too suitable for creation on its base of online store. It is more difficult than WordPress and is suitable for development of forums, multi-user blogs, encyclopedias and the websites of communities rather. In a case with Drupal for receiving the website meeting all technical requirements it is necessary to build laboriously and long structure of future project. Selecting free CMS, you should know that nobody will give guarantees of successful work of the website on this engine to you. Also failures can sometimes be observed, in case of big attendance of the website and paid systems develop much more rapidly. Among the paid universal engines which are used for development of online stores 1C-Bitrix and UMI.CMS are most demanded. 1C-Bitrix is used by many major companies when developing the websites. To create online store, it is possible to acquire one of 3 editions: "Business", "Small business" or "Business Web cluster". The priority of any given configuration depends on what problems the website should solve. The second in popularity uses is UMI.CMS. This program provides big convenience of work of the content manager and developers of the website, gives ability to integrate, but concedes in functionality of CMS 1C-Bitrix a little. For creation of online store it is better to get Shop or Commerce versions. In addition to universal CMS, there are systems which are specially intended for online stores. One of them is Shop-Script. It has several templates of design, a big set of functionality which is necessary in online store. It is easier to rent some online stores: get a similar resource for an established period after which it is possible to prolong or not to prolong the license. Among similar ready solutions it is possible to note online stores from Storeland and Insales. Using this option, you save on terms and cost of development of the website. Such programs, as a rule, have the demonstration version thanks to which you will be able to evaluate functionality of CMS which interested you.