Why to use Content Management System(CMS)

These days many websites, especially small business websites are built using static webpages. Utilizing technologies like html, javascript, css, jQuery and PHP code. And this code is difficult to access and manipulate for a normal user who don’t have expertise in these technologies. To solve this website design and maintenance problem, a new concept of Reorganization of information in websites through back end is introduced and is termed as Content Management System(CMS).

A CMS uses a database to store, retrieve, and edit the content of your website. Each page of your site is stored as simple text – making it easy to edit, search, and manipulate. When someone visits your website the CMS automatically converts your text into the required HTML and Javascript. Furthermore, the CMS database allows for additional features to be easily integrated into the website: user login and passwords, events and calendars, blogs, news feeds, and much more.

The advantages of using a CMS

Whilst your visitors may never know whether your website is built with a CMS or the traditional static page form of website, the difference is something that you – as the site’s owner – will notice from the word go. Here are the significant advantages of using a CMS to build and deploy your business’s website:

Non-technical contributors can edit pages and expand a site’s content: no knowledge of HTML is required.
A separation is maintained between a website’s content, its structure and its visual design; a change in one of these can be done independently of the others. A complete visual re-design of a whole site can be done without touching the site’s content or its structure.
When new content is added, its visual appearance conforms to the design already established for the sort of content being added.
When pages are added or deleted, the site’s menus are updated automatically.
Updates to the site can be made at any time by anyone with the correct permissions.
Requirements for image sizes can be gracefully enforced.
Best practice with regard to search engines can be gracefully enforced (page titles, meaningful URLs, correct metadata, etc).
Changes made to the content of a website can be automatically posted to major search engines.

Although most CMSs will support the following additions to a ‘brochure’ website, Drupal will breeze through each of them:

a newsletter: email highlights from your website by point-and-click selecting both content and recipients
role authentication: designate specific people to perform specific tasks on your website
email notifications: email anyone (users or yourself) in response to any event on the site
a forum
an ecommerce/shopping system
content moderation queuing: hold newly-posted content until you’ve approved it for publication