Guide To Pick A CMS That Best Suits Your Website

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

This article will be detailing you a guide on how to pick a befitting content management system (CMS) which will be ideal for your website development.

Every business today look ahead to build a meaningful and user-friendly website which will help them vent their marketing or product promotions into the web. However, to get a website developed you need to pick a powerful CMS i.e. content management system, which can accompany all the marketing requirements of your business and convert them into functions in the website. A website needs to be typically content driven, looking at which customers will know what you are offering. Given that, it becomes crucial for you to choose the CMS carefully to ensure that your investments do not go to waste.

In simple words, the CMS you choose should be able to deliver a smooth digital experience to customers consistently, irrespective of the browsers, devices, network bandwidth and so forth. While choosing the CMS seems a challenging task and it should have capabilities beyond a basic website, here is a clear guide to help you choose one among the plenty of CMSes including Joomla, Drupal, WordPress or Kentico.

Go for the most comprehensive system

A great CMS should empower the web developers to do a lot of things, like adding up new modules, features, extensions and themes as and when required. It should be easy for the admin too to edit the content in the website including the design and text as per their convenience.

Choose the CMS that is evolving with time

Besides giving the liberty to customise the website, the CMS should be inherent at receiving updates and upgrades. It will help you to keep your site well updated and consistent with the latest technologies evolving every time. You could be easily able to modify your website yourself or by taking assistance from CMS developers to keep it in line with contemporary websites.

Look for an enhanced system of security

Every great CMS is preoccupied with advanced security. It is perhaps the first attribute to look in a CMS platform because a website needs to back up a huge amount of data, given the content placed on every page of the website. Besides, there’s has to be a security of users’ data, i.e. information that they put in the website’s interface for login and other purposes. So, ensuring the authentication of the users is a must-have aspect of your CMS.

Remember ‘Performance’ is the key

The performance of your website relies on the performance of the CMS. Advanced or multifold caching, cloud support, good speed of content delivery, scopes for customisations and least dependence on the backend are some essential nitty-gritty of a great performing CMS. Thus, be wise to choose the CMS that have all these performance-driving attributes.

Provide detailed analytics of the website

The CMS must be equipped with the function of traffic tracking and analytics. Studying the analytics of your website like the visitors on a page, session time, regions from where the visitors are coming, effective clicks, etc. will help you know how the visitors are engaging with the content of your page. This way you can know which content needs to be improved or which page of the site has to be edited and so on.

Apart from all these basic attributes, what else you need to check while choosing a CMS is the licensing terms, budget requirements, community support and scalability. CMS is the foundation of the website and so considering the inevitable influence behind the successful performance of a website, pick the one for your site wisely.

Jonathan Paul is a dedicated and trained Joomla developer at PHPProgrammers, a leading company in Australia delivering complete web solutions to businesses using the latest CMS frameworks and PHP technologies.