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2PM Friday
John: Lets get a special offer out for the weekend through the website!!
Boss: Great idea lets get it up right now and have people take advantage of it.
John: I'll contact the guy who did the website to make the updates!

This is where the process can stall. Your website editor may not be available to make these quick changes and the above iniative will stall. Using a CMS will alow you to make the changes yourself and make the updates quickly and easily

At its most basic, a content management system (CMS) is a software program that makes building and maintaining Web sites faster and easier. Lets say you are using a Web site without a CMS. if you want to post an event and have that event show up in five different places on the site, you have to perform the same activity five separate times on five separate pages. With a CMS, you only have to post the event once and any staff member can do it, regardless of their technical expertise. How does this work? Content management systems store the actual content (text and images) in a database. The system can then automatically pull the content out and show it on the appropriate pages based on rules that you set up in advance. The ways you can organize it, and the types of rules you can use, depend on how structurally flexible the CMS is. This setup makes it easy for all your content administrators the staff members who are writing and publishing the actual information on the site to create content without worrying about technical issues, or even knowing all the places the content should go.

Content management systems also separate graphic design from the content itself. This is accomplished through the use of themes, these are graphic design layers that control graphic elements, font and navigation styles, and page layouts for each page on the site. You simply choose a pre-packaged theme for your site, or create a theme thats completely customized to your own look and needs.

Content Management Systems Drupal Joomla and Wordpress

With a content managed system |(cms system) we allow you control your site updates. But it does not end there. A CMS allows you to create knowledge taxonomys on your website to that the correct information is available in the right locations. If you are just interested in starting off with blogging it might be best to start off with one of the free blogging options that are available.

Using CMS systems like Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla you can enjoy a wide array of add on features and plugins that give your website more power. Unleash the power of blogging, online galleries and forums for discussion helps easy storage and retrieval of data, reduces repetitive input and can improve communication between users.

Talk to us today about a hosted blog solution or even get advice on the many free solutions that exist.

wordpress

Wordpress is an open source CMS that is best known as a blogging platform. It goes beyond this with its wide feature set.

It comes with a wide array of plugins from contact forms to image gallerys to allow you to vary your content. It has a high degree of usability and to say it is state-of-the-art is close to the truth.

With an emphaisis on extensibility its array of plugins allow you to integrate tools such as Google Analytics for tracking your site statistics, easy poll integration and RSS feeds to spread your message easier.

It comes with a variety of SEO plugins that help you to work on your keywords on your site to improve your search engine phrases. With its easy interface it is an attractive CMS for use in many environments and this can be seen by the thousands of companies that now use.

We will develop a custom theme for you to show off your brand in the best light.

drupal

The creators of Drupal describe it as more a content management framework (CMF) than a pure CMS. What they mean by this is that the power of Drupal is not how it comes out of the box like Wordpress but how configurable it is.

The analogy is like going to a DIY store to buy all the material to build a house (Drupla) versus buying a purpose built house in a housing estate. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Drupal is immensely powerful and can satisy most content mangement needs.