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Advantages and disadvantage of CMS

03 Mar, 2014

Before building a website, one must know whether or not to use Content Management System (CMS). It most definitely eases up on the workload (for the business and for the web design companies) while giving a high quality output. For those who don’t know, CMS allows publishing and maintenance of content from a server that can be accessed by the users. It makes the lives of users and developers easy by allowing trouble-free content updating without having a user know HTML or PHP. No longer do the users have to be technical whiz to upload content or files.

Two of the main features of CMS include user and group management that allow more security to the content writers who upload their content on CMS. This system also allows users, the flexibility to organize a rather haphazard form of data. However this can have its advantages and disadvantages. Everything comes with a price, of course.

Source: http://readwrite.com/2011/12/22/what-is-wrong-with-todays-cms#awesm=~orU8lmVkxkd8tx

Advantages

• CMS is a centrally monitored portal from where users can upload their content without knowing too many technicalities of uploading as one would have to in case of building static websites (using HTML and PHP).
• Fewer employees will be needed for IT department (this tips the balance in favor of businesses as it would cut down on the costs. In case of small scaled businesses especially, one won’t have to maintain an entire department with technical experts).
• Also in terms of time, this reduces the updating of data massively. One will need to log in to update the information and the process is user friendly. This form of time saving adds to the efficiency of that firm’s workforce.
• Users control what content should be accessible and what shouldn’t be to the public. CMS also offers extended measure of security comprising of techniques to safely tuck away the content from the regular websites users.

Source: http://moveableonline.com/products/advantage-cms

Source: http://moveableonline.com/products/advantage-cms

Disadvantages

• When using CMS however, one needs to operate on a really fast processor as CMS dominates the entire RAM space and resources of a computer. This may not allow a user to multitask on a same desktop.
• CMS software will have to be updated from time to time and users will have to look out for updated versions in order to function properly with CMS. And yes for the upgrading, one will need a programmer as functioning on an obsolete CMS will be more troublesome than convenient.
• Another issue could be that CMS hosting is rather expensive. Web design companies advice their clients to use a system depending on how frequently their sites need to be updated.

What matters most is that a business is aware of its requirements and how much should it invest on CMS. 4M Designers assist businesses in analyzing their requirements to offer them the right solutions for their websites while keeping in consideration business functionality and budget. Contact us today!

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