What is a CMS?

A Content management system is the solution to updating your website, a CMS allows you to update your website without the need for any technical knowledge in web development, it has a login page just like your email (web mail like yahoo) login page that allows you to compose, edit and publish material on your website include photos

Benefits of a CMS

1. A rapidly and well updated website attracts visitors and hence up sale and new business
2. The website is database driven, hence you can store as much information as possible
3. You can update it from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection
4. Authorized people can update the website and hence you can have multiple authors
5. You can schedule your web pages to publish only on given dates
6. Saves time in updating and you don’t have to rely on an elusive web designers
7. You can optimize each page on a very low budget and hence Search Engine Friendly
8. The Consistence of your web design is maintained for proper branding

Features of CMS

1. User administration - You can create users and restrict access and delete users who have rights to edit the website
2. Menu Manager- You can add links to the menu bars either vertical or horizontal and also drop down menus, links can be dynamically generated
3. Content manager - You have a WYSIWYG editor, hence you can format your text into bold, italics, underline, bullets etc
4. Images Manager- allows you to upload an image and insert it into the text , align it, re-size it, give it a caption and link it
5. LinksManager - allows you to create links from your content to other pages or other websites
6. Contact forms - you can create and edit contact forms
7. Modules addition - allows you to add third-party modules for other functions, i.e. newsletter, events, calendar, photo gallery, contact forms, booking forms etc

Allot of content management engines are free to download and implement but you will require some basic technical knowledge to do this, the most popular content management systems are Joomla, drupal, cmsmadesimple, wordpress and typepad, you will be required to customize it and configure it to suit your environment.

What you Might Need

At ideas Africa we offer you help with the technical parts of working with the CMS so you are never bothered by that and you can concentrate on your product and service information on your website

1. Installation of your Choice of CMS
2. CMS Custom Template Design
3. CMS module development, installation and configuration
4. CMS design and Development
5. Turnkey website solution

Call us to schedule a meeting on 2098985 or 0721749672 or 0733792322

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