Printed newspapers and magazines have a huge impact on the environment. The manufacturing of paper, printing inks, use of solvents and coatings for paper, distribution and disposal of newspapers and magazines has a huge impact on the environment. On the other hand, an online newspaper or magazine has a minimal environmental impact because it is a virtual product.

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Content management systems allow site owners to control and update content anywhere, anytime. They are now developed with a wide variety of interactive, user-friendly features. They can be bilingual or multilingual. They adhere to the latest web standards. Free modules and extensions can be added to you CMS to implement e-commerce, social networking, blogging and many other site features. Open source content management systems come in a variety of configurations including:

• Web Portals
• Forums
• Blogs
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• Learning Management
• Image Galleries
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• Wikis
• Customer Relations Management
• Social Networking
• Dating Sites
• Business Directories
• Video and Photo Uploading

Now is the time to migrate your website to a Joomla or Drupal open-source content management system. Why? Because both the Joomla and Drupal community have released new, completely recoded and rebuilt frameworks of their excellent CMS. Each CMS also has hundreds of components and modules that are being recoded to be compatible with the new versions. That means you won't have the headache of migrating from the older to the newer versions of the CMS. Your website will benefit from the best open-source CMS available to-day.