What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.”- Brian Clark, Founder Copyblogger.
- A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website or Blog
- A Content Management System (CMS) is software whose primary purpose is to make it easy for multiple people to add, edit and manage web content without any technical knowledge.
- A CMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website or Blog with little or no training.
- Primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.
- Typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features
Reasons Why A CMS Is Important To Your Business?
1. Increase in efficiency.
2.Increase your search engine ranking
3.Maintain control over your content
4. Help your visitors in their search for information
5.Cross-selling
6.Content management
7.Improve online branding
8.Extensibility
9.Improve customer service
10.Mobile optimization
Why Use a Content Management System? And, OK, if you’re going to use one, which one???
Comparison Among Three CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla)
| Drupal | Joomla | WordPress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | www.drupal.org | www.joomla.org | www.wordpress.org |
| About | Developer-friendly tool for building complex sites. | Developer-oriented, extensive capabilities | Innovative, easy-to-use blogging platform. |
| Ease of use | Technical expertise required - Producing the most advanced sites | Complex than WordPress. Good for small investment and create fairly complex sites | Technical experience is not necessary; it’s intuitive and easy to get a simple site set up quickly. |
| Features | Powerful for tag, categorize, and organize complex content. | Strong social networking features | Powerful enough for web developers or designers |
| Best use cases | Best for complex, advanced, and versatile sites; | flexibility than WordPress offers, | Ideal for fairly simple web sites, such as everyday blogging and news sites |
CMS Workflow
