Benefits of a Content Management System

Quick Web Ltd has worked on Content Management Systems (CMS) since our inception, rightly recognising them to be the best way to get content onto the Internet quickly, with the minimum of fuss.

There are a large number of CMS systems around - many are free, some are incredibly expensive. We have worked on a number of these systems, and can understand how small non-IT businesses can get confused with the choice available.

We can create a CMS system just for you, with the editable content that you want, not that someone else has decided and forced you to into. Of course, we don't start from scratch every time, as we have many years of experience which we can put into practice for you - a real benefit that you don't get from the free packages you can download. But we urge you to try these packages and to see how you get on - our CMSs are fully hosted, with your own domain name, and full security so only you and your team are able to make updates.

One of the main benefits of a CMS is that you can update your website, with a minimum of fuss, without having to learn how to create webpages or upload new document or images with an FTP client. If your requirements suit a very regimented model, you can have very strict forms that ask specific questions, which all go toward making your new content page. Other applications will need to be less restrictive, and simply allow you to paste in fragments of HTML. But the basic premise is that you go to your secure administration pages, enter the information that you have already decided is required, and publish your changes.

Further benefits are more quantifiable - they include saving you money and ensuring that your website is more up to date and relevent than your competitors:

• No editing of pages
• No uploading content with confusing tools
• Easy to create new content
• No need to pay an external company to make updates
• Fix mistakes quickly
• React to market changes
• Change look of site very quickly
• Different admin users can edit different content

We can populate a new CMS from existing content from aa website, SQL Server, Access, Excel, Word, XML etc. and even provide an import page if you have new data regularly arrive in a specific format (such as from other suppliers).

An area this final point can be very useful in is if you need to combine multiple external feeds from suppliers into a single searchable database of part details, prices etc. We have a number of systems that works along these lines and combine locally held information with data consumed from external web services, proprietary text files, and uploaded XML files.  We can then provide a single dataset for you to add your own information to before publishing or making available to an internal user-base.