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maintenance required significant
technical skills (HTML, programming).
Typically a HTML programmer was hired to create
and maintain the business website and medium
sized enterprises who had the financial resources hired
programmers directly and placed them on their payrolls
in full time positions, these people commonly
became known as the in-house webmaster.
The in-house webmaster role was to maintain and update the company website using their extensive programming skills. Smaller companies tended to outsource this task to external companies and paid then on a demand basis whenever updates were required, both processes tended to be a slow and expensive.
Next Generation of Websites
As the web became more popular and the demand for more content and more frequent updates because necessary a new generation of website appeared, this new generation employed a revolutionary new process of simple separation, they simply separated the HTML coding from the content meaning there was no more need for users to know complex HTML in order to update website content.
The birth of the Enterprise CMS
These new generation of websites had a new layer of software called a CMS, the CMS presented the end user with a graphic user interface that was similar to a standard word processor, so they quickly caught on.
Reasons why the Enterprise CMS became popular
- They could streamline the publishing processes.
- When the CMS was put in place the in-house webmaster could then focus on the redesign and functionality issues and not get tied down doing low level content updates.
- Content creators were able to add their content directly and take ownership which increased their motivation
- The ability to edit anywhere from anywhere, anytime removed bottlenecks within the organisation.
- Users could be assigned roles and permissions that prevented them from editing content which they were not authorized to change.
- Consistency of design was preserved; content from all authors was presented with the same, consistent design throughout the entire website.
- Content scheduling, presented publishers new levels of control never seen before.
These were the driving forces behind the growth in use of the Enterprise CMS.
Although the enterprise cms tended to use expensive software so they remained popular only within the medium to large enterprise community as they were simply not cost effective for small business.
A new credible alternative to the Enterprise CMS for small Business.
In recent times certain open source CMS projects have evolved, these are driven by entire online communities
of people who have come together to develop entire open source platforms. (Open source software is software that the owner permits other users to use, change, or redistribute, unlike proprietary software there is no licensing fee, so it’s essentially free)
These new open source cms now place similar features enjoyed by larger enterprises in the hands
of the small business owner at a fraction of the cost.
Several main platforms have evolved which are very popular today; one of these platforms is wordpress
it’s estimated that WordPress is used by 54.0% of all the websites that employ a content management system.
Is there any downside to using an open source CMS
The downside is these can be difficult to install, support and manage, that’s where we come in.
Our Service
We provide the following service as one single package:
- Advice and consultation on the best open source CMS for your individual needs
- Installing and configuring the CMS and its various components into one single Package
- Customizing a template with your individual design elements
- Transferring your existing content across to the new CMS
- Training you and your staff on how to use the new CMS
- Recommending and installing additional applications to extend its functionalities.
- Supporting everything together as one single pack package.
Why is this so important to your business?
1. These Opensource CMS are more cost effective to deploy, which puts the latest technology
in your hands at a fraction of the cost of alternative systems.
2. Once it is gone live, you are in total control. This allows you to keep your website up
to date without incurring the cost of hiring or waiting for an external developer to do this for you.
3. If you can react quickly to news, product changes, latest developments, this can put you
ahead of your competition online.
There are many more benefits..
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