Update your own website, without the code (11/07)
Updating and overhauling websites are no longer the domain of the traditional computer geek. The development of website content management systems now enable many companies to incorporate “website maintenance” into the job description of their receptionists or other admin staff.
Since the Internet became a mainstream business tool, many companies have associated the word “website” with the words “expensive”, “difficult” and “terrifying”. This was principally due to the time and effort it took to communicate website changes to computer geeks, who never seemed to be able to get it right!
Nowadays, anyone with basic word processing skills can build new pages, add images/text to a web page and even construct new online forms/surveys. |
A Content Management System is a program created by a Web Development Company (e.g. Xplore.net’s CMS is called Xtools) that allows website owners to make changes to their website without being required to know a coding language. The Content Management System provides an interface similar to word processing software (e.g. Microsoft WORD) and, as the website owner makes text/image changes, the CMS writes the necessary code for them (behind the scenes).
This type of software allows company owners to have complete control over their online presence. As new advertising, branding or marketing initiatives are launched, the website can immediately be updated by someone in the company who knows exactly how it should look.
Content Management Systems offer varying degrees of control (depending on what functions the Web Development Company have created), but generally offer companies the ability to add/delete web pages, edit content (images, text and links, change the imagery in online photo galleries, take online registrations (e.g. for the company newsletter) and create online forms/surveys.
Author: Wendy Schollum
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