5 reasons CMS based websites are the best choice
Votes: 1020This list came to me in a divine moment of 1/2 sleep and 1/2 awake, go figure.
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RSS / Livebookmarks / Podcasting
- In a traditional filesystem you'd have to update these files by hand, and believe me you can easily forget, and besides who wants to update 2 3 or 4 files everytime you update a page or make a new page for your website.
- In a CMS based web application tasks like this are automated, "set it and forget it".
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Index pages and other aggrigation.
- Who wants to keep 2 or 3 files index pages straight, just setup some rules and bam, it just works.
- In a flat file system how many edit might be needed for adding a single page?
- Add the page
- Add the fact that you added it, to your home page
- Add it to your rss feed
- add it to your Google Sitemap XML document
- Add it to any category pages
- Add it to a news section
- Wow almost 6 edits, (maybe 5) what a waste of time.
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Commenting
- No brainer here, can you do commenting on a static html website?
- CMS solutions help with adding a "community" sense to your website,the web can be more than static documents, quite thinking of the web as carbon copy of your printed material, it can be better, social, and interesting.
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Templating
- Want to change that design your 10 year old nephew/neice made for you? Even if he/she used good CSS and xhtml mark-up it can still be hard if you want to add whole new features or sections, say advertisements or other "included" content.
- With a CMS solutions it's quite easy to have multimpletemplates for your content, sotring all your data in a MySQL DB is the pinacle of seperation of content and presentation, albiet a bit convoluded at times, but they'll have to pry my database content from my cold dead hands if they want it in flat files.
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Options
- There are many great CMS solutions avaliable.
- MODx - My personal favorite, it's more of a framework allowing for rapids application development, heck you can even "bake" your site to flat files (if you do God have mercy).
- Drupal - It's al lthe rage for features and support, but it can be slow, and has some bloat, but the new 5.0 soom to be an improvement.
- Typo3 - I found it confusing, but it seems powerful
- WordPress - The "bloggers" tool of choice, hence it is great for blogging, but not much else.
- Mambo/Joomla - I also found these confusing but again great support and community.
- There are plenty more to try for free at opensourcecms.com
- Or you could roll your own.
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