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”. That is why it is very important for us to keep our website up to date with the latest company events. Today, everyone is struggling to keep their websites up to date. Gone are the days of using static websites. As more people become more 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 must employ website designers and, for further modifications, we must also rely on them. As a human being we always have some limitations. Therefore, it is not a good idea to rely on human for something that can be done easily with the help of software (CMS).

With the advent of the content management system, it has become very easy to build and manage our website content without having any technical knowledge, which is otherwise a huge task. CMS is equipped with a large number of built-in graphics libraries, links to affiliate programs, 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. CMS are frequently used to store, control, version, and publish industry-specific documentation, such as news articles, operator’s manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. Managed content can 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 having to rely on any technician with ease. The content management system can be of great help to those consumers (school / university students or housewives) who have also become publishers and who are trying to find ways to manage the production of their content. 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 customize their websites frequently 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; makes you publish content faster, which is very necessary to create value to content today.

* Simple and affordable to implement: many CMS like Joomla are open source CMS and come free and its portability between many versions and its scalability across different platforms makes it very simple 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 out of the box and can be easily applied to content.

* You can speed up website creation and maintenance using plugins and web components.

* CMS can also keep you in touch with social media through blogs, message boards, RSS, etc.

* It can be shared by several 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. Generate a completely new output with the available content.

* Content scheduling – Content posting can be scheduled using CMS to keep track of who is posting what, how fast the content is posting, if the posting schedule is being met, if it is out of date, the content is being removed fast enough, etc. In this way, using CMS, one can easily measure the success of their publishing efforts.

* CMS allows you to constantly manage metadata [out] through content template structures. Metadata plays an important role in SEO. It eventually helps you get good search engine rankings.

* By using CMS, one can ensure the privacy of their content on the intranet, 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 and anytime using a common web browser which eliminates many bottlenecks.

Summary: CMS provides great user convenience to manage content effectively and profitably. CMS can also be useful for those publishers who want to publish a large amount of content but do not have technical knowledge. CMS also allows you to design a common and consistent web content architecture, which is very essential for having a competent website. By using CMS, the user can update with the latest technologies in the world with ease. But before selecting any CMS, keep in mind that a bad CMS can make your life worse.