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Why Content Management System should be used.
posted on November 20, 2008, 2:42 pm

A content management system is very convenient and helpful because:
• It will not be necessary to rely on web designers to perform alterations for you.
• Since a website is a means of communication for your business, it is essential that you can make changes whenever you want to.
• CMS manages all technical details which makes it possible for anyone to manipulate and update the site.
• It is not necessary for the site to be operated by one single person. Several people can be responsible for this. CMS is able to follow what everybody is doing without causing any misunderstanding.
• If you want you can assign the update of each section to a different person.  
• CMS will make the menus and the whole navigation for you. Besides, all your pages will be uniform in design.
• CMS will help your site develop simultaneously with your business thanks to its numerous beneficial characteristics.

Features of the simplest content management systems:
- pages can be added, removed and altered.
- it is not difficult to define fonts colours and page components background; besides, images and text can be boxed or not.
- popup images are produced automatically.
- galleries with numerous popup pictures can be created at one click.
- it is simple to include enquiry forms able to convey email to the site owner.
- email addresses are immediately obscured while being typed into the text boxes in order to prevent accessed from the internet by spammers.
- in cases of multilingual sites, a page design has to be created only once. Thus, adding the translated text into a formatted page will be a very simple task.

Keep content, structure and layout apart
You shouldn’t write the existing content again when updating the site layout. Enlarging and improving site structure and navigation interfaces should not depend on the graphics layout. And also, content should be kept in such a way that allows its multiple use in different contexts.

Bringing content from different systems together
Information of a business can be stored in CRM and ERP systems, legacy web pages, databases, etc. The CMS product should have the ability to fit all separate information sources in the web sites. At the same time the available security systems will ensure information protection.

Content should be adjustable to different languages
In the past years creation of multilingual web sites required individual copies of all pages of the site which needs regular synchronizing of data between the sites. To facilitate management layout templates and site logic should not be copied in separate sites, and the web pages should comprise the different languages so they won’t show as multiple files. Multilingual support does not mean files keeping only. A search engine is also necessary to support foreign character sets.

Lessen risks resulting from old or improper information
A CMS product should be able to bring structure to the whole publishing process (called workflow), incl. authoring, translation and approval. Control of publish times and warning or automatic deletion of obsolete pages are also provided.

Exert complete control on former and current site content
The version control option allows former versions of all web pages to be seen. It is also possible to check who and when has made the modifications.

The webmaster bottleneck
With the expansion and development of the site it is getting difficult if one person or a centralized team is in charge of all content creation. If a decentralized approach is applied, it is possible for various people to be in control of different sections of the web site. CMS should allow each author to work independently and prevent other alterations to take place simultaneously.

Time-to-market demands readily available functions and quick realization
At the time of their creation web development projects are not usually perfect. They need a CMS product offering flexibility and simple re-configuration in order to handle the changes and avoid project suspension.

Site development and maintenance expenses
The more popular a web site is, the more visitors it will have. This will lead to stringer requirements for content and hence - to more active editors. A good CMS product should be able to meet growing demands and have enough capacity from the beginning. CMS has to be designed to keep pace with changes and growth of web sites.

CMS employing can be very advantageous to your business. It will provide:
organized and efficient content creation process
more effective site navigation
quick implementation of changes and new pages  
better consistency
enhanced site flexibility
reduced information copying
ability for decentralised authoring
bigger development capacity
improved security
decreased site maintenance expenditures

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