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An Overview of Content Management Systems

By: Mircea Goia

A Content Management System is a web technology that enables you to publish, add, edit and delete the contents of your website without prior knowledge of coding languages like HTML and XHTML.A Content Management System works by maintaining a database of its own that stores all the data of the site on which this system is installed. It enables you to make changes in the website providing a user friendly interface that requires no technical skills at all, making it so easy for you to maintain and update your website without help of any technical personnel. Your website or in other words your whole online marketing campaign is in your hands if you opt to use this e-marketing technique.
An overwhelming variety of CMS is available nowadays however, all fall in one of the two basic categories:
1. Premium/Enterprise Level/Custom/Bespoke CMS: Custom CMSs come with advanced functionality that is required for a complex web based project. They are costly and less flexible as they are designed as per specific needs of the enterprise.
2. Open Source CMS: Open Source CMSs are those content management systems that provide basic functionalities. Ease of use and free of cost are the salient features of open source CMS.
Content Management Systems offer a multitude of benefits that turn your simple static website into a dynamic one and attract millions of customers to your site. Advantages of CMSs can be broadly categorized as:
Diverse Functionality: It includes pre-developed modules, on-demand editing, pre-designed templates, RSS, media updates, content display scheduling, visitor’s statistics, administration system and advertising systems.
Ease of Use: CMSs offer a wide range of features that add a lot of functionality in your website but require no know how of coding language. You can do all this on a user friendly interface.
Cost-Effectiveness: A static website may be less costly at the development time but it may incur huge money later for its maintenance as for every update you will have to take help of technical person with the right expertise in this field if you don’t have coding knowledge. A CMS site on the other hand is very cost effective as even if you go for the Premium CMS instead of Open Source CMS it will cost you just at the time of installment but later it will be very easy and budget friendly for you to maintain your website.
Time Saving: Time is an important factor when you are doing business in a high paced competitive market. A CMS enables you to update your site in real time that provides you an edge over your competitors.
Traffic: A CMS is synonymous to a SEO. It may be called a SEO technique that improves your ranking by the search engines as SEs change ranking on constant basis which is entirely based on frequency of site updating process.
Some of the best known CMSs that fall in the range of open source CMS are DotNetNuke, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Plone and TYPOlight.

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Mircea Goia was born in Romania and imigrated to USA in 2005. He lives in Phoenix, AZ and works as web developer. Aside, he works also on several entrepreneurial Web projects. He also manages http://www.mytestbox.com/ where you can get web software reviews. He shows a keen interest in commercial Web development such as social networks, viral marketing, online video.

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