There are lots of things to consider before getting into website development!
Content Management System, or simply the CMS is one such.
Over all these years, websites development has enhanced a lot giving the power to owners to create website with full-fledged customisation. CMS or Content Management System is one such enhancement! CMS is the feature-rich software platform with the help of which website owners or creators can create, edit and publish content on their sites, blogs without pro-skills of coding.
“The right content management system is a key piece of the business puzzle”. But, there are dozens of rightful CMSes available. So, which one is the most recommended piece for your web project is pretty difficult finding out. Besides, what is the need for a content management system or how to use a CMS for a website, is not initially easy to crack for them?
We, the PHPProgrammers, a leading company in the realm of web development in Australia house a talented pool of Joomla developers, Drupal developers, WordPress, Typo3 and Kentico CMS developers. So, in all these years, we’ve known well the struggles of businesses in getting a CMS that is a right fit for their site’s requirements. So, we have been trying our best to help them with consultation on which CMS to choose along with development.
However, some most critical factors to consider before you finalise on a CMS are:
- Ease of use
- Open API
- Front-end management
- Plugins
- Flexibility and Scalability
- Flexible in content layout
Well, website owners have different needs and that’s why most toil hard in getting the suitable CMS. Take a look at how you can commit to a CMS which will get you on the right track.
#1 Decide the content you will be dealing with
While you are using up a CMS for your website, you’re getting a finite structure to fit in all your content. Despite the content editor tool of the CMS, there is a certain limit to customisation that can do with your content in future. So, it’s always better you ‘do it right’ in the first instance! Gather up the content, images, videos, GIFs, and everything else you want to put in your site. Accordingly, decide the layout or structure and get a CMS that will cater to it.
#2 Think of whether you need Content updates
You need to think about beforehand the whether the website you will be launching will require to be updated regularly or not. In this case yes will probably be every website owner’s answer because sites can be marked obsolete in the search engines if no new content like press releases, blogs or even images/videos are added. So, it’s obviously better to consider a CMS that will allow them to make all new entries to the site seamlessly.
#3 Ongoing maintenance is a crucial consideration
As the architecture of the CMS will be based on the design and content of your site, scaling it later for any changes or new additions will be tough. So, you need to have a system with which you can tweak in features or provide new content, all by using its existing templates and toolkit.
Concluding Thoughts!
While CMS gives you control over your website and is also important for business-centric sites, without these vital considerations you won’t be getting what you have thought of! There has to be a balance between your web development team and the CMS platform you picked, upfront costs and the later maintenance costs, initial architecture and the flexibility to make changes.
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However, when you get the right solution of CMS, your focus on the content strategy for your website will get valued and also updating anything later will be a simple task on your or your developers’ end.
Also, read our latest Article: “Getting More From Your CMS” to know how to use a CMS for a website to derive optimised results!
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