Do you know what a Content Management System (CMS) is? Well, it’s time to learn! Because within a few years, virtually every website will be built using this technology. CMS sites (using software such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal) allow non-technical users to make changes to their website with little training.
Most systems use a database–located at your site’s hosting service–to store your website content. It enables what people have dubbed, “cloud computing” where shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like electricity.
While it also means that most websites will need to be re-designed and redeveloped to take advantage of this state-of-the-art publishing platform, the good news is that you’ll be able to keep your site easily updated to current web standards and browsers, and various users will be able to update content on the fly. Keeping your site fresh has the added advantage of making your website more friendly to search engines and is just much more fun. You will never be held hostage to a slacker webmaster again. And most of these technologies are “free and priceless at the same time.”
Feel like you may be lost in the dust? If you already have a website that you spent a good chunk of change creating…all is not lost. Ask your web person to add a WordPress blog to your site so you can get started. You’ll soon see why this open source (free) elegant publishing system is so popular.
