Advantages of a CMS
What is a CMS?
A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.
Exploring The Back-End
Most of our Solutions today include a CCK (Content Construction Kit) or Content Application Builder, like Zoo 2.5. Zoo is a bit of a do-all, as it is both an Application Builder and a Content Creation Kit. What is an application builder? Say, for instance, you'd like to create a Cookbook or Recipe Archive for your cooking website. Using Zoo, we can create an Application that will manage and categorize all of your content and allow you to build content items based on whatever elements you so desire. Should you want every recipe to include a Name, Star Rating system, Ingredients with bullet-points, Instruction Text, Author, How-To Video, Related Recipes and Social Sharing - all we need to do is create these elements for your application. Once the elements have been created, we can decide which elements should appear in any particular layout (in a module, on the full page, at the teaser/category level, the related items layout, etc) and how those elements should look. This allows for complete customization and makes your website truly "2.0", as all of your content will stream automatically, based on your layouts, anywhere you want it. Simply chance the original item and everywhere it appears on the website will be instantly updated.
Joomla, and all of our trusted applications, provide a slick non-technical administration system that even your least tech-savvy staff can manage. Whether it's updating a product, or adding a new Blog article, your staff will have controllable privileges to easily update and manage every aspect of the website.
In a traditional, "Web 1.0" environment - like Dreamweaver or Drupal-based websites, you will always need a professional Developer to make changes to your website. This means either staffing or keeping a Developer on retainer. Even student or novice Web Designers get quite expensive, and web expenses can quickly get out of control. Since Joomla sites can be edited by non-technical people, we virtually eliminate the need for costly developers. If we've done our job, you won't need us.
