WebGUI is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) available today. This CMS framework is built to allow average business users to build and manage content of complex Web sites.

WebGUI is modular, pluggable, and platform independent software. It was designed to manage content easily and effectively. It allows the people who create the content to manage it online – by uploading, editing and publishing content.

At present WebGUI CMS is downloaded over 5000 times per month and is used as an Intranet Application framework in several Fortune 500 firms in the United States.

WebGUI comes with a full discussion forum with the functionality of phpBB or FUD Forum, plus events calendaring, a photo gallery, a Web log (blog), FAQ and Link List management, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system.

Following are some of the key features of WebGUI
· Short friendly URLs and Ids
· Rich user interface allowing users to place their content through a drag-n-drop interface, use helpers to pick colors, dates, and more
· Highly customizable editor for formatting content quickly and easily
· Personalization of content
· Easy to install with its runtime environment
· Powerful API
· Publish content in any language

WebGUI runs on mod_perl or fastCGI application server. MySQL works as the backend database of this application. The software is written in Perl 5.6 programming language and is compatible with all the operating systems. Apache web server works best with this content management software.