What is a Content Management System?
A Content Management Systems is a way to create, manage, distribute, publish, and update your website information.
Benefits to a Content Management System
Even though there are other ways of updating your website, you might decide to choose and use a content management system. What are the benefits of using a content management system? Below are the following benefits to using a content management system:
- Changes can be updated any time when needed (day or night).
- If you choose to do so and have staff, they can update the section(s) that they are responsible for.
- Design and content is separate. This means that you can update or make changes to the design without affecting the content.
- Use Cascading Style Sheets to maintain the appearance. I really like CSS as it allows you to change the design and color of the CMS site.
- Create RSS Feeds. Every time you create a post or make a comment, it creates a feed for it.
- Schedule your content updates. You can set a time to schedule when your articles or post actually can be updated.
Content Management Systems to Use
Where can you find a content management system to use? For starters, most web hosting providers will have a content management system for you to use. For example, the web hosting provider I have has Drupal, Mambo, and Joomla as part of my content management systems. Of course, these are some popular ones to use to make updates as I find anyone of these to be a great tool to use.
On another note, if you would like to use a hosted content management system just to simply update content and do the minimum for other things, I find that CushyCMS which can be found at www.cushycms.com (You can watch the demo on the site and Sign up for free), will allow web designers or content editors to edit content as well as not to install software on their machine. With CushyCMS, there is a free version which I have used and there is one where you can pay which provides more services.
Conclusion
A content management system can be a great tool to use for either personal or business use. A content management system allows you to capability to update your site and have multiple authors take authorship of sections of your site as your site continues to grow.
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In my world, content management systems (CMSes) have long been the enterprise software that has been the biggest pain in the ass to deal with. Free Hosting
So how does a CMS work? How does it differ from using a web template?
Personally I prefer Wordpress to manage my content – however after reading this post I did a quick search for other reviews on CushyCMS. Seems the consensus is that it works really great as a remote content editor, which in a sense is “content management” but it’s not really software that packages the distribution of the content.
I guess that part doesn’t really matter, because the value that I see in CushyCMS is that it would be great tool for editing things like landing pages that you wouldn’t necessarily want associated with your blog or website.
So, even though I will continue to use Wordpress, I think you have just helped me find a great content editor for other smaller piece of marketing.
Well Done! Thanks Tammy.
Thanks for one more good article. Where else can anyone get this kind of information in such a faultless way. I actually enjoyed reading it.