Why CMS?
Content plays an important role in determining the popularity of any website, which is why it is known as “King of the web”. Therefore, it is very important to us to keep our website updated with the latest company developments. Nowadays, everyone struggles to keep their websites up to date. Gone are the days of using static websites. As more people become familiar with the Internet, it has become very essential for us to check our websites 24 hours a day. To design the content of the website, we need to employ website designers, and for further modifications, we also need to rely on them. As a human being we always have some limitations. Therefore, it is not a good idea to rely on humans for something that can be easily done with the help of a software (CMS).
With the advent of the content management system, it has become very easy to create and manage our website content without having any technical knowledge, which is otherwise quite a task. CMS is equipped with many built-in libraries of graphics, affiliate program links, which can be used even by the common man to build and manage the websites.
What is CMS?
According to Wikipedia, CMS is a computer application used to manage the workflow required to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish, and archive various types of digital media and electronic text. CMSs are frequently used to store, control, version, and publish industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operator manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. Managed content may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and web content.
What are the benefits of using CMS?
CMS provides flexibility and convenience for anyone to design and manage their website on their own without relying on any technician with ease. The content management system can be of great help to those consumers (school/university students or housewives) also turned publishers, who are trying to find ways to manage their content production. These people don’t have the time or money to spend on website designers or programmers, but they want to post their thoughts as soon as they occur to them and frequently customize their websites on their own.
There are several other advantages of CMS, some of them are:
* Save time: CMS saves a lot of time to publish the content; it makes you publish content faster, which is very necessary to create value to content in modern times.
* Simple and affordable to implement – Many CMS like Joomla are open source CMS that come for free and its portability between many versions and its scalability across different platforms makes it very easy to use.
* The CMS service can be delivered over the Internet. It does not require any hardware to manage or software to install separately just for CMS.
* Easy to use and publish content online even without any technical knowledge.
* Error handling and control makes it very simple to use.
* It is equipped with many customizable templates that are ready to use and can be easily applied to content.
* You can speed up the creation and maintenance of websites using web components and plugins.
* CMS can also keep you in touch with social networks through the use of blogs, message boards, RSS, etc.
* It can be shared by multiple people who have different user and administration rights in an organization because it establishes defined publishing processes.
* Rebuild/Reuse Content: CMS is equipped with content reuse feature as the content is stored in the database. Generates a completely new output with the available content.
* Content Scheduling – Content posting can be scheduled by CMS to keep track of who posts what, how fast the content is posted, if the posting schedule is met, if it is out of date, if the content is removed fast enough, etc. In this way, using CMS, one can easily measure the success of their publishing efforts.
* CMS allows you to consistently manage metadata [out] through content template structures. Metadata plays an important role in SEO. Eventually it helps you to get good search engine rankings.
* Using CMS one can ensure the privacy of your intranet content, which is really important as different people in an organization might have assigned different rights to view, edit and publish the content.
* Distributed maintenance: content can be easily edited from anywhere at any time using a common web browser which eliminates many bottlenecks.
Summary: CMS brings great convenience to the user to manage content effectively and profitably. CMS can also be useful for those publishers who want to publish a lot of content but are not technically savvy. CMS also allows you to design a common and consistent web content architecture, which is very essential to have a competent website. By using CMS, the user can be updated with the latest technologies in the world with ease. But before you select any CMS, keep in mind that a bad CMS can make your life worse.