What is a CMS?

What exactly is a CMS? Well, firstly it's an abbreviation of Content Management System and in the world of websites - "Content is King". This is especially true when you talk about your website rankings in the top search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly MSN Live) and Ask Jeeves.

The goal of the CMS is to make adding and editing text on your website as easy as possible. Our goal is to setup these systems along with superior and scalable website design to the greatest benefit of you and to aid your customers finding you online.

Below is a breakdown of the top three content management systems and one example site to give you an idea of what CMS implementations can do.

The Content Management System of choice of the United Nations Regional Information Centre - www.unric.org among others, with built in features that include, customisable layouts, scheduled publishing/un-publishing, user roles for work-flows, article editable meta tag data, caching of pages for faster loading, RSS feeds, article categories and section ordering, news flashes, human friendly URLs, blog style views, polls, along with the following article buttons printable page views, PDF downloads and email.
Extra functionality is added via extensions.

A Blog Management System, fast becoming a solid Content Management System, chosen blogging system for ZDNet - news.zdnet.com among others, with built in features that include, scheduled publishing but not un-publishing, content revision tracking, user roles for work-flows, user comments, comments spam filter, RSS feeds, multiple nested categories for articles, article tagging, human friendly URLs.
Extra functionality is added via widgets.

The Content Management System of choice for New York State Senate - www.nysenate.gov among others, with built in features that include, caching of pages for faster loading, user comments, RSS feeds, multiple nested categories for articles, custom user roles for greater flexibility of work-flows, content revision tracking, human friendly URLs, polls.
Extra functionality is added via modules.

As you can see each system has very different features, so one of them should fit your requirements.

Having trouble? We will help you select the correct one for your specific needs, alternatively there may be one not listed that better suits your needs, should this be the case we can implement any other solution required.