If you’re thinking of building your own website, then you’ll probably have heard of the term CMS (Content Management System). A CMS such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal provides some very powerful features to your website, making it more flexible and SEO Friendly. At Grafton Media we believe that most websites these days can benefit from running a CMS for the following reasons:
- Easy to use! With a CMS, you can update the content on your website yourself, wiith a very user-friendly editor. No input from your web developer required.
- Instantly improve your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) with sitemap and SEO plugins.
- Organise your content better into categories and create a powerful search, all as standard in a CMS.
- Connect with Social Media. A CMS will connect to your social media profiles and allow your to post automatically to twitter when you create an article or page – drumming up more interest and drawing more traffic to your site!
- It’s easy to change your mind! If you ever decide to change something in your design, it’s easy with a CMS to update sections throughout your site.
- See who’s visiting you. With built in visitor tracking, you can see who visits your site and when (though we still recommend installing Google Analytics onto your site too).
- Endless amounts of Plugins. Extend your site even further with thousands of plugins. Add an events calendar, import your favourite feeds or create a funky image slider.. The possibilities are huge!
Whether you choose to use an off-the-shelf CMS or a custom built one, everyone can benefit from using a CMS to drive their website. All of the websites we build at Grafton Media are based on a CMS to provide great power behind a site but still have a simple user interface that can be used by anyone.
We also show you and your staff how to use the CMS that comes with your website so you can update the content on it yourself! We don’t leave until you’re fully comfortable with the software and how to use it. Also if you have any questions, we’re only a call or email away from answering them for you.
Comments or questions? Drop us an email at hello@graftonmedia.com, or come and say hi on the following sites:
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