Content Management Systems (CMS)
Every website needs up-to-date content, intuitive navigation, and a great design. And every site administrator wants to be able to get a website up quickly, make changes easily, and add new content with a minimum of effort. That’s where a Content Management System (CMS) comes in.
A CMS does three things:
Makes it easier to get your website up and running – once you have the design exactly to what will best serve your site visitors, Promotes good website practices and allows your non-technical staff members to easily make site updates.
You can do all of this without a CMS, just as you can stay in touch with people without using email. But like email, a CMS can make your life a lot easier.
What does CMS do for you.
- Help you set up a useful site structure and navigations system.
- Allow non-technical content editors to update content.
- Support a completely configurable graphic design—there is no reason for your site visitors to know what CMS you are using, or even that you’re using one at all.
- Facilitate internal work sharing by allowing some staff members to update only one set of things and other staff members to update others
- Automatically pick the appropriate content items to show site visitors based on rules—for instance, your home page could automatically display only the four most recent news stories.
- Offer lots of plug-ins to support a wide range of common needs.
- Allow a good programmer to modify the website and CMS so that it does exactly what you want it to do