How to choose your ultimate cms website

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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