Content Managements Systems Allows You To Easily Maintain Your Website or Web Blog
Northeast Web Design can provide our clients with a comprehensive cutting edge content management system (CMS). The added functionality of its many features and applications are only enhanced by the existence of a backend of the site that helps you to organize your website content rendering the website to be dynamic and user friendly. The client can log in using their favored browser without any additional software to update and easily manipulate any content on their website including images, text, blogs, etc. This can be accomplished without having any foundational knowledge of a programming language. Content management systems are also search engine friendly, tending to score high marks for search engine ranking position.
Popular Open Source Content Management Systems:
1. WordPress
WordPress is a publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Most of our websites are built on this cutting edge technology that has the advantage of being updated every few months. For more information on WordPress, visit the wordpress.org site.
2. Drupal
Drupal is an alternative to WordPress that allows for similar functionality but is open source, meaning that is maintained by a community of programmers. For more information on Drupal, vist the drupa.org/about site.
3. Joomla
Joomla is an award winning software that boasts that it is “simple, powerful, and up-to-date” which also is a open source software. For more information on Joomla, visit the joomla.org site.
Old Ways of Web Design are Often Static and Don’t Offer the Flexibility of a Content Management System
The Failures of Old School Web Design
- Websites built in the past or using out of date technology have limited functionality and are used mostly just for aesthetics.
- The web page is only a static marketing piece with displayed information and fewer features and applications.
- The site contains only a frontend, meaning that there is no area that you can go to update the site without knowledge of web programming.
- Old websites have complex computer code that leads to bulkier web pages, resulting in longer loading time.
- Complex Computer Codes also mean that you must depend on a Webmaster for all changes resulting in a process of e-mailing, sitting and waiting as well as requiring pay for additional work and resulting in long-turn around time for changes.
The Advantages of New Web Development on a CMS
- The content management system is so user friendly that you have the opportunity to update your website whenever you desire.
- Content management systems give you the ability to change content without contacting a Webmaster to assist you in the process.
- Switching images or updating news and other information has never been so easy as with a content management system since it requires no specific software or technical programs.
- Content management systems allow for remote access to your website maintenance so that you can update your site from any device that has Internet.
- Websites built on a content management system offer a better user experience as a dynamic web solution that provides scalable functionality.
- Websites use contemporary semantics are more search engine friendly, allowing greater visibility for more visitors to your site.
- Content management systems have a wide selection of features and applications including blogs, calendars, maps, mailing lists, image galleries- and the list keeps going and growing with time.
- Content management systems that are consistently maintained have better security and are therefore less vulnerable to viruses and hackers.
