Content Management Systems - What Are They?
What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
A Content Management System is an application that enables you to be in control of the content on your website without needing to programming knowledge or learning technical skills. Very similar to a Word document, it allows you to add sections and pages to your website, update text, news items, links, downloadables and images on the pages, and focus on the messages you're communicating with your customers.
Best of all, you don't need to pay your web developers every time you need to make a little change. You are in complete control and can make the changes anywhere in the world, at any given time of the day.
Why do you need a Content Management System (CMS)?
If you have a website, you should be in control of it. Communication with your clients, both current and prospective, must be clear, easy and instantaneous. The aim of a CMS is to dispose of the technical limitations and allow freedom through usability. The best websites are those that are continually updated and a fresh in their look and content. This includes up-to-date pricing and news items.
edita CMS by The Web Designer is an intuitive, powerful and highly flexible Content Management System (CMS) which allows both novice and advanced users to maintain website content via a simple interface without needing to learn any complex skills. Alterations are as easy as a click away and these changes are instantaneous.
Most of the work that we do now is content managed by our clients via edita CMS.
Applications can be as simple or as complex as our clients wish.
At a base level, edita CMS allows you to:
- Edit and format all of the pages on the website.
- Post news, blog or bulletin items.
- Upload documents, such as PDFs and Word, and link to them from other pages on the site.
- Upload images to an image library for easy inclusion on any of the site's pages.
- Alter keywords, META tags and ALT tags for an increased search engine friendliness.
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