Academic is a lightening-fast blog CMS based on CakePHP and Bootstrap.

Create, from the Midgard Project is a comprehensive web editing interface for Content Management Systems. It is designed to provide a modern, fully browser-based HTML5 environment for managing content. Create can be adapted to work on almost any content management backend.

Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.

The simple way to manage your course and engage your students.
It's free and always will be.

Anchor is a content management system, written in PHP5, built for art-directed posts.

A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files
located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log.

Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

A git-based blog/cms platform for PHP, meant as a replacement for Wordpress.

Post-action hooks in git are used to manage an intermediate cache which consist only of structured data (no formatting), allowing dynamic presentation. This is one of the biggest differences tech-wise in comparison to Jekyll and similar tools.

Bonsai is a simple website builder. Perfect for portfolios, catalogues and other image-heavy sites.

It differs from other tools in that it’s not aimed at blogs or text-heavy sites, but those where simple, well-defined hierarchies are the focus.

Bonsai is designed to keep a clear separation between content and templates, following best web practices. It has been built with an emphasis on simplicity of use.

Build your own professional looking site quickly and easily with our do-it-yourself website builder

Asaph – a small blogging system, that allows you to instantly post links and images directly from any page on the web. This makes Asaph the most fun to use application if you want to collect and show all the cool things you found elsewhere. Asaph is not a full blown blog and it does not aim to be one – it just does this one task, but it’s pretty good at it.

Stacey is an easier way to create a portfolio site.
No database setup or installation files, simply drop the application on a server and it runs. Your content is managed by creating folders and editing text files. No login screens, no ‘cms’.

List of Static File CMSes

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.