In my previous blog entry about turnkey websites, I mentioned the use of turnkey sites and how they can help web marketers. If you are starting an ecommerce (or affiliate) website you may want to consider the top three open source free content management scripts. Just like turnkey sites these are simple to use and deploy.

1. OSCommerce - is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

2. Zen Cart - truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

3. Joomla - is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Of the three mentioned CMS, I personally like Joomla, because there are a lot of free plug-in and templates available in the forum site.

Another good reason to use these open source systems is that there are a hundred or so templates that you can choose, you can browse template monsters for compatible templates.

That’s it for now. Cheers and good luck to our success!