Why a CMS?

CMS provides a whole new world of flexibility. No longer do you need to pay high hourly rates to a web developer to do any of the tasks because it can now be handled quite simply by yourself or one of your team.

Can I easily and quickly….	Static Web Site	Open-Source CMS Web Site	Task Example
Add/delete a page.	X	√	You have a new informative article that you wish to add to your web site.
Add/delete content to existing page.	X	√	You have new information that you need to add to an article to bring it up to date.
Add/delete a section of content.	X	√	You have launched a new product or service line and need to group the information about it together on the web site.
Add/delete new menu item.	X	√	You wish to link to the new product or service line directly from the main menu of the web site.
Add/delete imagery.	X	√	You have updated product imagery that you need to add to a product page.
Move elements of the site around.	X	√	You wish to move the newsletter subscriber form on the web site up above the box containing Industry News.
Change the text colour/size/font of the web site.	X	√	You want to experiment with a dark gray text colour for the web site text.
Restrict access to certain pages to registered users.	X	√	You only want to grant access to price pages to prospects who you have spoken to directly.
Add a visitor survey.	X	√	You wish to poll the web site visitors on what the biggest problems they are facing regarding your industry.
Add a blog to the web site.	X	√	You wish to add a running commentary about your industry to the web site so you can add new information on a daily basis.
Give team access to web site to update content.	X	√	You wish to let your marketing assistant update some pages of content.
[implement any number of other functionalities...]	X	√	[Think of a piece of functionality you wish to add you to your web site. 90% of the time, there will be an off-the-shelf component that will let you implement this quickly.]