Why CMS?

Do you want to be able to make changes to your site yourself?   So do millions of other people, and after years of R&D we’ve got to a place where it’s easy.

Content Management Systems, or CMS, give you an incredible amount of control over your website via a private Admin Interface.   They allow you to make changes to your textual content in an easy to manage interface.   You can add entire pages, change the text, pictures, add a flash photo gallery, email lists and even add and remove entire components such as user Forum via the WordPress Admin Interface.

A CMS like WordPress has 2 sides, the Public side and the Admin side.   The Public side is what the world sees.   Most sites have repeated content such as the header images, menu bar and footer.   This is called the “Theme” or “Template” of the site/page.    The part that changes, in the middle, is termed the “Content”.

So the CMS Admin tool gives you a way to organize the pages and media (images, etc.) of your site easily.   The text editor technology has come along way and the current WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) text editors are amazing!   It’s like having Microsoft Word (r) inside a web page!.

So, using a CMS, the only things you might need another person for are the initial setup of the Graphic Design of the site.    You can choose one of the templates from an existing library, or any site really, as the starting point.   Then we can customize it to your liking and needs.

And the cool part of a CMS like WordPress is that it is an easily expandable, open ended “plug-in architecture”.   That means if you’ve seen a cool feature on another site, there is probably a module that we can install for your site, in minutes!!! What used to take me a week now takes an hour because of the open-source movement.   It’s all been done before, so why don’t we share it?

Which CMS?

There are many Open Source (free!) CMS systems.   I recommend WordPress for it’s ease of use and featured packed plug-in library.

I also recommend Joomla for people with websites that are more business oriented and require some real powerful expansive plug-in packages.

Contact me today and I’ll show you examples of what a CMS can do.