Content management systems allow complete instant control over your online information. The administrator can update the content of the website from any PC with an internet connection anywhere, with no extra costs for software.

The features and benefits of a content management system (CMS)

Content management system provides complete control over text, images and graphics within your website. The administrator might include documents, images, audio / video, flash animation, graphs, spreadsheets and presentations.

Content management system is a web publishing tool that enables a range of content to be easily published to the web. The content can be organised and managed in a logical and effective way.

The content management solution will provide a user interface so that the administrator can easily add, update and maintain the content without disturbing the design layout. The administrator can have very limited IT skills.

The content management system enables any specified user the ability to author specific daily content and media for their website. It is as easy for an author to publish to the web as it is working on an MS Word document. The administrator of the CMS can assign various tasks to different people with the responsibilities of editing and publishing different sections.

Our content management solution would provide dynamic abilities such as allowing authors to generate dynamic polls and surveys and easily capture and publish the results.

Content management solutions can be configured so that the user can personalise their experience of using your particular site. The administrator may want to have a website where the vast majority of the content is accessible to everyone, but users register to view specific content or services.

Template format

The most conventional CMS uses a ‘template’ format. It allows the editors to modify each page within restricted areas. If a page was made up of a paragraph on the left and a photograph on the right, the editor would have a text entry box in the area where the text was and a control for changing or adding the image to the right. This option is good in situations where the page design layout doesn’t need to be changed.

Advanced content management system

This contains a ‘rich text editor’ format that gives the administrator complete control over page content and design. It incorporates many controls found in packages such as MS Word along with the ability to use drag and drop absolute positioning to move text, images, objects and rich media content to any location within a page.

A content management solution enables the administrator(s) of the system to create additional authors but only allow them access to edit certain areas. This is highly effective as each editor can access and update his own area using a secure password protected administrative area.

Our content management solution has built in functions to create and modify the title, description and keywords meta tags for each page. The editor can also add ALT tags for any images within the site.