There are many Open Source Projects on the net. There are blogging platforms, CMS portals, image galleries, shopping carts, discussion forum scripts… you name it. For any project in any category, there is a free script that you can use.
However, it can be mind boggling to choose a script that suits your needs, especially if you are not familiar with any of them. In order to really test each script, you will have to spend a lot of hours installing and debugging them. And that’s a big disadvantage.
Luckily there is a site that allows you to test-ride most of the popular open source scripts. You can test the front and back end of any of the listed scripts.
For example, if you haven’t upgraded your blog to the latest version of WorPress 2.3.2, you can test it here.
I frequently use this site to compare different scripts and their functionalities. I also noticed that I send many of my customers to this website to test out particular script (especially the back-end part) before they chose it to use it for their projects. I thought you would find it useful.
Do you know of any OS scripts applicable specifically to science? I know there are things like bioFox, but that’s obviously nothing to do with WordPress…
db
i have used this site for years..and they are great…..neve thought of giving it a post..nice post
Definitely a tool which can help you save a lot of time, I’m sure that readers who are hearing about it for the first time will find it useful.
Alan Johnson
Didn’t know of that site, thanks for pointing it out.
Hi David, sorry I am not aware of any scripts for science projects.