10 Reasons To Use A CMS For Your Site
Written by webchicklet on March 26, 2008 – 11:52 am -1. Web-based access to your site’s content, so you can edit from anywhere - home, work, vacation - any place with Internet access.
2. Ability to easily assign tasks to different people. Writers can create and edit content without worrying about messing up the design. Designers can tweak designs without stepping on the toes of the writers. Admins can handle the administrative side as well as oversee everyone else’s tasks. Or you can be the master of your site, and do it all.
3. Ease of updating makes it more likely that new content will be added, keeping the site fresh and appealing - both to users and to search engines.
4. Managing menus and page heirarchy becomes a breeze, as a good CMS handles it all automagically, while still leaving you with ultimate control.
5. Make site-wide changes easily, by updating info in one place.
6. Rid yourself of slooooow ftp wait times. Don’t even know what ftp is or how to use it? Don’t need to know. You can upload content, images, videos, and anything else via the file upload system that the CMS uses.
7. Want a new design? It’s usually as easy as adding a new theme, and telling the CMS to use it instead. Content stays intact, but the site has completely new look.
8. Good CMS’s allow you to quickly and easily add new modules when you are ready for them. Decide it’s time to add an image gallery? Plug in a module. Need a contact form? Grab a plugin. Want search functionality? Click to add.
9. CMS applications usually have some form of support - either officially from the company that created it - or unofficially via the community of your peers who use it. This means that you are no longer tied to the person who created your site. Did he jump ship? No problem. Get help from lots of other people.
10. It’s cool to throw around acronyms like CMS and have people think you’re a cool geek.
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