Content Management System

Every successful website is built on a Content Management System (CMS). CMS empowers site owners to easily manage their content. They can edit pages, post news about their company, manage products and services, can have a blog and much more. This will encourage users to return for the latest information. Everything is managed with a browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox – there is nothing to install on your computer.

Not so long ago, this feature was expensive and was reserved only for big websites with many resources. Now, it is a must have for every successful website – search engines like fresh content and RSS feeds. For a small business website in Raleigh-Durham, our CMS of choice is Wordpress, but for big projects we use Expression Engine.

Benefits of Wordpress as CMS

Wordpress Administration Menu

• Easy to use – by far the most important benefit
• Easy to develop – saves you money
• No license fees – free to use
• Easy to update – 1 minute version update
• Used by millions – proven to deliver
• Development starting at $2,499
• See more benefits

Find out more at wordpress.org.

Benefits of Expression Engine

Expression Engine Administration Menu

• Extremely flexible – can do almost anything
• Customer support
• Membership site – password protected areas
• Newsletter mailing list
• Affordable – only $99 for a personal website
• Development starting at $3,499

Find out more at expressionengine.com

Which One Is Better?

Expression Engine is built around the idea of weblogs instead of pages. All the information is kept inside weblogs which can be assigned editing and viewing rights. Templates pull out the information the way you want and generate pages. For example, the content of this simple page on our website is kept as a page in Wordpress. In Expression Engine, it would be kept in 4 posts from one weblog: Content Management System, Benefits of Wordpress as CMS, Benefits of Expression Engine and Which One Is Better?. The template would list the posts inside the weblog to generate the page. If it’s hard for you to understand this concept, we recommend Wordpress. There is no point in using a more complicated CMS if it will be hard for you to maintain the website. Wordpress is proven to be easy to use. After all, millions of people are using it.