ARE YOU READY TO
update and manage your site with ease?
You may be asking yourself, what is a Content Management System?
In its simplest terms, it is a system designed specifically to help users create and manage their websites. A CMS can help a business manage, update and maintain the many different resources, content types and various types of data that make up the front-end version of there website.
One of the major advantages of a CMS (other then its ability to organize your website backend) is its collaborative nature. Multiple users can log on and contribute, schedule or edit content to be published. With a web-based interface, a CMS can be access from anywhere by any number of users.
Another major advantage is that the systems allow non-technical people who don’t know programming languages to easily create and manage their own web content. An easy to use editor (usually a WYSIWYG editor is built into your typical content management platforms) allows users to enter text and upload images without needing to know any HTML or CSS.
While there are hundreds of CMS platforms, some of the more popular ones are:
- WordPress
- Shopify
- Wix
Building a strategy around CMS can be very time consuming if you don’t have the right people helping you or the right tools to help you get started. Some important questions to keep in mind are:
- What is your budget?
- What business operations does the CMS need to support?
- What technologies does the CMS need to support or integrate with?
- How easy is it to create and edit content?
- How many different groups of users will there be?
- Is the platform SEO-friendly?
- How large is the developer community?