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The short answer - a CMS is a Content Management System.

In its simplest form, a Content Management System or CMS can be used to change a single block of text on your home page.

The long answer - a CMS is a system that seperates the content of a web site (the text, images, and so on) from the framework of linking pages together and controlling how the pages appear. In most cases, this is done to make a site easier to maintain than would be the case if it was built exclusively out of hard-coded html pages. At least, that is the goal.

You might ask what good is that? Good question!

Answer:

Anyone with the administrative password can change that block without knowing a thing about html or programming! Now lets say that you have eight or twenty pages with that same block of type on all of them.You make the change once, and it updates your whole site!!!

There are many benefits to a CMS system, this article will touch on a few of them.

Question:

Why update the pages at all?
Answer:
Because you get sick of your site after a while, and so does everyone else!!!

Another answer: Things change!
Lets say you have an employment section on the site. How long does each job vacancy last? One week? perhaps two weeks? You may forget about it because it's a pain to train another person to update an html employment page. Or you waste a half hour for a five minute change. Or you look bad having outdated information.

 
Another aspect of CMS to consider is the user interaction factor. You can allow your users to participate in your website! User interaction is one of the major keys to a successful website.

Your users want to do more than read, they want to participate. There is almost no business out there that can't come up with at least one way for users to participate.

You want user participation, at all costs. One of the major elements is that users will trade the e-mail address in return for participating.

This is a target rich environment! A pre-qualified lead for your company. using CMS is a very powerful and versital way to develop user interaction. There are online polls, message boards, link management, random photos, voting & rating abilities.

These and much more which can be built in and rotated throughout your website.

Your users will wind up feeling that you care about the experience. You will be seen as a company that stays on top of emerging technology, and you will be more likely to cement a user base.

Administration:

CMS is also used to allow unskilled users to update a web site, however, setting up the actual site to begin with can be technically challenging.

Once set up, basically you log in and make your changes to your pages through the use of online forms.

How do we approach installing a CMS system?

There are numerous CMS softwares available on the market. We also create custom CMS systems from scratch tailored to your exact needs if you need only a very basic CMS.

Currently we are installing Typo3 which is a very poweful free open source CMS system.

We also offer training sessions on using and updating your web site content using the Typo3 CMS software.

Click the link below to try a demo version of Typo3 CMS or you may go to the Demo Site For Typo 3 to try a demo and learn more about this poweful open source CMS software.

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