There are countless ways of creating a website. In fact, there are various scripts or applications available on the Internet that helps on the creation of these websites. May it be a blog or an eCommerce site, there will surely be an application that would help create these type of sites.
Usually, sites hosted using the cPanel control panel will often have the RVSiteBuilder application. These are great website builders that will help on creating static websites. If not, there are programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver that will assist on creating a static website as well.
If the user wishes to create a more dynamic website (one that has a lot of user interactivity going on such as blogs, eCommerce and more), they can try some open source applications that will help them fulfill their needs.
A good example of an all-rounder content management system or CMS is Joomla. It is used by millions of websites worldwide and has a good reputation as well. In fact, there are a lot of prominent sites that are run by this CMS as well.
Blogs can be created with the use of WordPress, a very popular and versatile publishing platform. It has a lot of themes as well as plugins that allow the creation of a very interactive site. In fact, it isn’t only blogs that are created out of WordPress, anything that has to do with publishing content can be made out of WordPress.
As for eCommerce, there are a number of options to choose from. Prestashop is a good solution for any site that wishes to sell products. In addition to that, Magento can also be used. However, Magento tends to be quite heavy in nature which is why not many shared hosting plans can be run on it.
All of the applications given above are open source. This means that the user is free to modify them in any way provided that they comply with the GPL Open Source License. In addition to that, these applications are well known on the Internet so support is not a problem either.