7 Steps To Choose Best CMS For Your Website
Tags: webdev
Published: 2020-09-29 11:07:16

Having a business without a website is just the same as you don’t exist and this is a reality for a long while now. However if you have a small to medium-sized company, the chances are you probably do not have resources for an IT department to work on your website throughout the entire year. In such cases, you should employ a website development company to design and develop a website for you. When you hire one, they would likely ask you to choose a custom website and a Content Management System (CMS). CMS offers a lot of benefits and the biggest one is no need to worry about how to code. There are too many different CMS in the market. So how to choose the best one? Don’t worry, we’ve come with a list of things to consider while selecting the best CMS for your website. Before digging into it, have a look at, why use CMS?

#Why Use CMS?
**1. User-friendly Content Composition-**
Content management systems offers simple and easy to use content composition and media upload tools with simple formatting controls to build attractive layouts. Most provide the ability to preview work and save drafts.

**2. Accessible Content Management-** 
If you use CMS, you don’t need a knowledge of HTML to edit a website. As there is a provision of editing tools, there is very little to learn. Some CMSs include complex layout editors that give WYSIWYG composition, or let you edit page content in a live view.

**3. Rapid And Fast Edits-**
A CMS allows you to access the contents of a database over the web. Generally, you’ll use a form, although some CMS software allows you to directly edit the page contents in live preview.

**4. Safe Interaction With Database-**
The CMS helps with checking accidental edits by controlling the manner in which you save and create your content. This can help to stop you from messing up the database, as you don’t interact directly with it. Some CMSs don’t use databases but this is rare.

**5. Automation-**
The CMS can automate some aspects of content delivery, like the production of a RSS feed from content that you create. It can also schedule posts for a future date, so you can stack up content in advance instead of publishing it immediately, and feed into your social media accounts, ecommerce store and so on.

**6. Flexibility-** 
Numerous CMSs have well-established user communities that extend their reach and usefulness using extensions or plugins. As the design and layout is separate, it is easy to “reskin” the site by plugging in a new theme without disturbing the content. Some CMSs have built-in forum and email marketing tools.

#How To Choose A CMS For Your Website?
There are hundreds of content management systems like Magento, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Wix and so on. Before selecting any CMS, you should ask yourself a few questions like- your budget, security options, support and exactly what you need in a website etc. Complexity is another issue, if you run a shop with thousands of products, you should go for a proven ecommerce platform like WooCommerce or Magento. Whereas, if you are a startup or a small company that offers one or two services, you can just start with one page website. Here we’ll discuss some of the important points that should be considered before you select the best one for your website.

**1. Ease Of Use-**
For a non-technical person, ease of use is the most important thing to think about CMS. If you want to manually upload content, you will have to do it by yourself, whether you want it or not. There are some things that you need to learn and if the platform is easier to use, it is better for your staff members to access. These days, most of the web platforms are easy to use or navigate, so it is easy to add new pages, images and other content onto your website or blog. WordPress is a popular CMS for web development.  

**2. Core Functionality-**
One of the most common misconceptions is- all the CMS platforms perform the same functionality like create, edit and organize pages and content. Although it is true at basic level, there is a range of functionality that only few systems can support, for example, eCommerce, event ticketing, multilingual support, multiple website support, and so on. In spite of the popular belief, unused functionality isn’t excess power, its excess weight slows down and makes your system unnecessarily cumbersome. Making a conclusive list of what you need and what you don’t require from your CMS and making provisions for future requirements will help you to make the right decision.

**3. Initial Set-up & Deployment-**
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