Design Your Own Website With CMS

By John Robson


CMS (Content Management Systems) provide a way of creating websites without using hard coding. If you wish to build a website but have little knowledge of CSS, HTML and similar complex programming languages, these systems provide a great option. The set up and administration is straightforward to grasp, so with only a small amount of technical knowledge users are able to build a professional looking website without needing to learn web-based coding.

This makes content management systems an excellent option for small businesses operating on a limited budget. You will not have to pay out for a professionally designed site if you use CMS and do the job yourself. By you create the website yourself you achieve a lot of influence over its content and appearance.

By making sure that the content of your website is refreshed on a regular basis; for instance updating information about new stock or relevant news, retains the interest of your site visitors and can also help to increase the quantity of traffic your website receives. Changing the appearance of your website at a later date is fairly straightforward and changes can be made without altering any content.

With CMS all of the information within your site is managed effectively through organised storage in designated folders. Appropriate restrictions are put on the amount of access that can be gained to the data held in folders. Later on as you site develops, the content management assistance will become vital. Sophisticated security offers excellent protection from hackers and viruses.

Using CMS you can build highly interactive sites which allow multiple users to communicate effectively through the use of email, instant messagingand forums. A higher amount of site visitors will be\are attracted to this type of appealing and versatile site. This may well lead to a higher search engine ranking.

Some websites can experience difficulties with the amount of time it can take for pages to load when they have large amounts of visitors to their website. This is not a problem with CMS because there are many features in place which make sure that your web pages load at a fast rate.

Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are currently the top three Content Management Systems. All three are open source software which means that you can freely download the software and make modifications.

Designer friendly, with many features which can be easily personalised, Joomla is the first choice for web designers. Its software can be difficult to integrate so it is best suited to those with some web building experience.

Drupal has advanced features and is great for building complex sites. It does not have the best selection of design features.

The easiest of the threeto grasp is Wordpress.




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