Making a Future-Proof Content Management Systems for New Clients
Melbo; a website development agency offering a range of CMS (content management systems). Employing a CMS is essential if you’re not technically minded and need a
simple resolution to edit your online content on your website. There’s literally millions of content management systems online at a wide range of prices.
WordPress is one of the easiest CMS, an open source CMS written in PHP and MySQL. Wordpress was first released in 05/2003 and has been adopted as the canonic blogging application.
As a technical web development firm, Melbo have developed Content Management Solutions for hundreds websites, like Everest.
You can normally expect to find these features in a basic content management system:
- New page creation
- Content Management, (text, links, images, buttons, video etc
- Meta editor
- Plain text editor
- Skinning. Ability to change colour/theme of website
- Content versioning
- Localisation / multi-lingual support
- User group management/permissions
If you’re after for a custom CMS to fit your prerequisites, there’s a ton of technical web development consultancy firms providing this service. If you do choose to follow this road you will most probably be required to produce a FRS (functional requirement specification) or similar to enable the technical web development firm to supply a quotation. An FRS is a semi formal document, usually written by the IT manager, which outlines your bespoke CMS requirements.
A wise decision would be to meet with a selection of application development agencies and put the FRS forward for open tender, where you can expect 3 or 4 quotations and select the right agency for you.