CMS

Most businesses when they update the text or images on a website page have to make a copy of the page on their computer and then use a program such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver to make the modifications. The the page is put back on the web server by ftp so that it becomes visible on the web.

But things evolved as they do - people wanted an easy way to update content directly online, through a web browsers using an interface that is similar to writing a Word document or an email. With a web content management system this is easily possible - just log in and use the word processor interface to make the changes

Some CMS that you may have heard of are Drupal and Joomla which are free open source softwares Wordpress is really more for blogging or journal keeping though it can be extended to be a basic WCM for some purposes but it does not have the sophisticated features of the other two that allow them to be used for more complex purposes.

Joomla is considered better for normal use, Drupal is considered better for developers who want to modify the actual functionality of the system to suit their purposes.

These open source softwares can be obtained from various places on the web. You download the package and install it on your own web server - providing that your server meets the requirements. There are now many sites that provide Joomla and Drupal pre-installed on their servers and configured for you.

There are also countlessproprietary Content Management Systems on the market of varying quality and ease of use. Every CMS has its own strengths and weaknesses, and things in which it excels, and things which it does not do well.

Is the SpiritWeb CMS different?

SpiritWeb CMS is a hosted CMS that runs only on a proprietary asp system on SpiritWeb's own hosting system. It was developed for larger corporate usesand it has granular permission settings which means thatit is an exceptionally secure system.

SpiritWeb is simple to learn and anyone with basic office computer skills can update their pages whenever necessary.

SpiritWeb CMS has an advanced and fully customizable ecommerce module available as an optional plugin. and filesharing features which makes many useful possibilities available to you. This can be used fora community extranet, a filesharing service, an online virtual office, and much more.

You can also set email alerts to be triggered by various activities such as uploading or modification of a particular file - which makes collaborative document editing and other online office activities possible.

A standard SpiritWeb site can be used to run an online university, or a large collaborative project, or a business with multiple international office locations, or a membership site with multiple administration roles and membership levels - or just to have sections of the site that are invisible except to clients who have registered.

Spiritweb CMS does far more than just make updating your website easy. It is a complete website building tool. If you ever want to seriously modify your website then you have access to the same tools with which your site was constructed by the designers! Comparable extranet and website editing features sold elsewhere on the web could cost you around $10,000+!

Save up to 80% on the ongoing management of your website.

Many of users report savings of over 70% on the cost of managing websites. A good WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that works like a word processor completely eliminates the need for specialist skills for normal tasks. Your team can do all site updates as part of their normal routines. Most likely this will also lead to better and more recent data on good CMS sites because updates can be done instantly.

So what do I recommend?

Although each case has to be assessed individually - the SpiritWeb Content Management Systemhas been designed to be a secure, flexible, and affordable web content management system. I strongly suggest that it would be a good idea to visit their simple CMS site, and see for yourself what can be done with this CMS, so that your business is properly setup with a technology that makes life easier and can adapt to your future needs as well.

Spiritweb's asp CMS is ready to grow with your business into the 21st century.