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How to choose your ultimate CMS website?
Content Management System is essential & should have highest priority
Introduction
● Choosing the best CMS based website can be a tricky exercise.
● With so many options available such as wordpress, joomla, magento, drupal,
etc you might get confused without a proper planning.
● Choosing a content management system can be tricky.
● Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you can be deceived by the
various fancy functionality which is both costly and not fit for your use.
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Core functionality should be atleast present
Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
● You should atleast focus on core functionality like creating, deleting and editing
pages while going for CMS.
● It should not be taken for granted that all CMS provide this core functions.
● You should first choose the basic functionality which you are looking for in your
CMS website.
● Though there are many content management system present in the market with
basic functionality, they vary in their usability.
● Go for a trail test before finalizing your CMS.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
The editor is of prime importance
● One of the most important feature of CMS is editor.
● It is a tool in the hand of user which helps in adding and amending content.
● Before selecting your CMS, you should ensure that all your requirements are
fulfilled by the editor in your CMS.
● Nowadays, more appropriate solutions have come up instead of editor to make the
whole content management process an easy and comforting task.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
Manage images and files in the best way
● Your images and files should be managed in the best possible way to ensure that
no technical issue arises.
● The bad management of these important attributes can lead to poor accessibility
and usability.
● Choose a CMS that allows you to add <alt> tags to images and further provide
you with image editing tools like cropping, resizing and rotating.
● Your content management system should allow you to upload and attach PDF
files without a problem.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
Search feature should be duly considered
● Search is one aspect which can be instrumental in your website's visitor
experience.
● More than half of your visitors will be using this feature while looking for relevant
content.
● Your search functionality should be fast and exhaustive to display everything to the
online visitor.
● A speedy and thorough display will boost your website performance.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
Customization is the key
● Your CMS website should be fully customizable so that it can be modified and used
according to the user's needs.
● Your content management should not be over-powered by technology rather it
should be manually controlled by the user.
● Choose a content management system which allows full flexibility as far as content
retrieval and presentation is concerned.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
User interaction is taken into account
● Your CMS should give you adequate opportunity to interact with the visitors.
● Gathering user feedback should be the an important aspect of any CMS website.
● Tools used for communicating with customers, news feed and RSS feed should be
properly integrated in the website.
● Managing users should also be done in an effective way.
● You can interact with your users through emails, customize the fields depending
upon the functions provided by your CMS.
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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS
Multiple website support is given
● With the latest trend of running multiple websites from the same installation,
your CMS should provide this facility.
● You might not need it presently but this will surely be required in the future.
● With your decision of targeting a narrower audience, you can easily switch
from one website to the other with the same installation.
● You can also create a separate website exclusively for mobile as mobile web is
increasing at a phenomenal rate.
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Who We Are?
● Smartinfosys.net is a leading website development and corporate branding
company that has been on the scene since 2001.
● Our tagline "Empowering People and Business" well expresses our mission of
providing highly functional & affordable websites & PHP based web
applications to empower personal and business processes.
● No matter what stage of development your business, we've been there!
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