Websites are the identity and future of organizations and Companies. If a website is designed well, it can have a huge effect on online marketing, because it causes your online presence to be highlighted and hence you can gain a lot of income and benefit. Web designers have to be active and updated against the changes in web design technology. So, using new technologies in web designing is necessary for them. What is the simplest way to design a web page? Can a beginner design a website? Do you need coding for web design? There 2 basic ways for designing a website: design based on coding knowledge and design without any need for it. Designing a website based on the CMS is one of the easiest ways that help you to design your website without coding knowledge.  ➡ A podcast of this article has been provided for your listening pleasure:  [lwptoc] What is CMS? CMS is an application that helps you to create, edit and manage your website easily. On other hand, CMS is used for storing and retrieval of your information. What are the Best CMS Applications and Software Tools for Designing a Website? Different software tools have various advantages and disadvantages. So, you must choose the best application depending on your needs and budget. So, if you are a beginner in the field of web designing and you want to know what is best for you, you must pay attention to your goals. A specific application and software cannot be responsive to your needs. So, maybe you have to use different software tools. Therefore, the best way is to try the different applications and select the best one. In this article, we collected 16 best CMS software tools that are appropriate for different purposes from weblogs to eCommerce websites. So, join us to know more about it. The Important Tips When Selecting CMS Software. Before we dive into the world of CMS software tools, we will speak about some of the important tips that you must be considered about them. Price: every CMS has its cost. Some of them are free but you must pay for hosting. Sometimes, you must buy the CMS application from a company. Supporting and the user experience: some of the tools are free but don’t have any support after designing your website by them. So, before buying every application you must be sure about its after buying the supporting package. Personalization: sometimes you must design your unique specific website. It can help you to be more impact on your viewers. Easy for use: your application must be easy and you use its simplicity. Security: Some CMA software tools support the security of your website, but some of them do not. So, pay attention to this point before starting to design your website. In this part, we want to present a list of some CMA software tools. By using this information, you can select the best. 1. WordPress WordPress is one of the most famous platforms for designing a website in the world. More than 37% of websites are designed by this platform. It was built for designing weblogs at the first, but today everyone can use it for designing different types of websites from eCommerce websites to NGO websites. Some of the advantages of using this platform are: . It is free. . You can find a lot of templates according to this platform. . You can improve your website by adding more than 55000 extensions. . The Woocommerce extension is very popular among eCommerce and shopping websites. 2. Drupal Drupal is another popular free platform among web designers. Because this platform has a flexible classification system it’s so popular for designing websites with extra content. 3. Joomla it is another free famous CMS platform after WordPress and Drupal. You can find a lot of appropriate templates for this platform. 4. Magento It is a free platform for eCommerce websites. One of the most important advantages of Magento is its high security. working with Magento needs to knowledge about web designing. So, it’s not appropriate for beginners and amateur designers. 5. HubSpot CMS It is a perfect CMs tool for all marketing and business that are following communication with their customers. Some of its advantages are: . Internal A/B test for improving your content. . SEO Comments to improve your ranking on Google . Having security support 6. Kentico There are two different products in this company: Kontent – CMS and Xperience– CMS. Kontent – CMS is free at the first but if you need to use pecuniary options, it may be so expensive. 7. Squarespace This platform is appropriate for designing a weblog or something like that. so, if you want to design a more flexible and perfect website, you must select other software applications. If you need to know more about this platform, we suggest you read Squarespace vs WordPress. The cost of using this application is from 7 to 16 $ per month. 8. dotCMS It is another free CMS platform for designing various websites from weblogs to eCommerce. 9. Zephyr This platform is working on a cloudy host and is specified for use by agencies. So, others cannot use this application to design their website. 10. Canvas CMS It is a CMS web designing platform based on a cloudy host that has a Drag-Drop designing system. you can design a specific website with this software. If you are an expert user, you can build a dynamic database inside CMS by using Canvas-CMS. 11. Grav This free platform is flat-file. It means that there is not any need for a database, instead, you can search your content from text documents. So, it works easily and you must only upload your files. 12. Craft CMS it is another free CMS software that let you design your specific website using this application. you can build your appearance by using Twig templates. 13. Sitefinity it is the perfect software for designing a marketing website with