10 features that all Content Management Systems should have

1. Human friendly membership system
A good CMS must not limit usernames to 10 characters and forcing users to create weird usernames

2. User profiles must be extensible
- Extensible according to what the website owner wants
- Not limited to the usual profile modules where users are asked to fill in their ICQ etc, and signatures and that's it

3. Search Engine Friendly
- Fast links from Google, Yahoo, Bing and MSN
- Descriptive links from the major search engines - that means, people will see the URL, the title, name of website, the slogan, OR the content that displays the terms searched

4. Excellent method for Categorization of content
- This feature is a must for a Directory, Yellow Page, large organization, library, archive, even online newspaper

5. Human friendly URLs
- Can be read and memorized

6. Syndication ready
- Out of the box RSS feed / aggregator and
- Enabling `Live Bookmarking' for Firefox and IE users

7. Contact form that is ready and it works to serve as `Contact Us' and `Feedback'
- A lot of portals have defunct `contact us' or still use mailto:webmaster@domain.co m which gets spammed and webmasters ignore emails sent using the contact us form

8. “Search” inside the website
- Must display the Title and the text containing the searched items
- Must enable at least 3 characters or numbers to be searched

9. Statistics and Referrers logs
- Can track what articles, terms, questions, links - from search engines and anywhere
- Is used to optimize content

10. Logs for portal and user activities
- Can see error messages, Search Engine activities, hacking attempts