Manage Your Own Site

Why You Should Have A Content Management System

Once your website is designed and built, who should be driving? You or us? We want to design and build, but there is no need for us to be your chauffer. You know where you need to go and should be steering.

A content management system is a computer program that allows publishing, editing, and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. CMS’s are often used to run websites containing blogs, news, and shopping.

Based on market share statistics, the most popular content management system is WordPress, used by over 28% of all websites on the internet, and by 59% of all websites using a known content management system.^{[5][better source needed]} Other popular content management systems include Joomla and Drupal.

5 Ways a CMS Will HELP Your Business

1. Increased Efficiency – Content can be published easily and efficiently – like editing and revisions – and do not require coding knowledge. Updates are fast and efficient, saving your business cost and time.
2. Improve Your Search Engine Ranking – To improve or maintain your search engine ranking your business has to remain relevant, and a good and easy-to-use CMS will help your staff keep the content fresh.
3. Maintain Control Over Your Content – Workflow is a core feature of any good CMS. Workflows ensure your business maintains control over content.
4. Help Visitors Find Information – With powerful CMS search engines built-in, new content is indexed automatically so it can be instantly found.
5. Cross-selling – Sophisticated Content Management Systems learn user behavior and preferences, making cross-selling and up-selling efforts more cost effective.

5 Reasons Why You NEED a CMS:

1. Content Management – Save content in a draft state, manage it though folders, easily update site navigation, restrict access, auto publish, style your content using WYSIWYG editor – these are all features that will allow your business to manage its content efficiently.
2. Branding is Improved – Marketing teams can keep business relevant by multi-channel campaign management (e.g. emails, brochures, RSS, hypersites, dynamic content management etc.)
3. Expandability – Your CMS will support your expansion, and most CMSs can extend functionality beyond its default capabilities, typically by purchasing additional plug-ins or modules.
4. Improve Customer Service – FAQs, tutorial videos, help sections and support forms are important in keeping your customers happy 24/7, and a good CMS will allow your business to easily maintain the support channels.
5. Mobile optimization – Advanced CMS’s offer mobile optimization, automatically tailoring the presentation of text and graphics for different devices.

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