Earl V. Meister
People are now starting to use Content Management System or (CMS) to build their website rather than coding a basic template using programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage. The following questions will help you determine which Content Management System you should get.
1. Which Content Management System best suits your business and its requirements?
Today, there are numerous CMS out there and some are used for specific needs like for an example Joomla CMS with Mosets is primarily used for Real Estate Businesses; iSocial is mostly used for social networking like Orku; OneCMS is targeted for gaming businesses and Moodle is for educational businesses. So you need to install a nice software like asp .net cms.
Others are just for generic use like Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla. You just have to research up on which CMS you think will help you and your business the most.
2. How to choose your web hosting services for your CMS?
Here are the primary aspects you need to research on to help keep things running smooth between your web host and your Content Management System.
· Price
· Installation Process
· Uptime
· Upgrade Process
· Customer Support
If you believe that your website will be containing a sufficient amount of files, you might want to also check the disk space and monthly bandwidth of the web hosting services.
3. Is the learning process long or short for working with the Content Management System?
The easier is it to manage your CMS, the faster it is to get used to. Some of these features will help get your site up; therefore these features are key to determining if the CMS is user-friendly.
· WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) is where the content displayed is similar to the final output. This will help people who do not know coding.
· Template is how your site is laid out.
· Modifications/Plug-Ins/Hacks/Components are “tweaks” that can range from preventing spam to creating your own chat box.
· Administration; you want it where it’s easy for you to upload and modify pages/content/images/videos/etc.
· Support Group is a group of people who will try to help you with the CMS to their best of their ability when you get stuck and have a question on something.
For starters, I recommend WordPress for personal use; it’s very powerful and very easy to manage. It is mostly used for personal articles and blogs. If you want to make a heavy in-depth website; I would prefer using Joomla or Drupal. I tend to like generic CMS more than specialized ones because of its versatility.
Earl V. Meister
