Choose your ultimate CMS Website – Comprehensive Checklist

How to choose your ultimate CMS website?

Content Management System is essential & should have highest priority

Introduction

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Choosing the best CMS based website can be a tricky exercise.

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With so many options available such as wordpress, joomla, magento, drupal, etc you might get confused without a proper planning.

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Choosing a content management system can be tricky.

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Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you can be deceived by the various fancy functionality which is both costly and not fit for your use.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Core functionality should be atleast present

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You should atleast focus on core functionality like creating, deleting and editing pages while going for CMS.

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It should not be taken for granted that all CMS provide this core functions.

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You should first choose the basic functionality which you are looking for in your CMS website.

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Though there are many content management system present in the market with basic functionality, they vary in their usability.

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Go for a trail test before finalizing your CMS.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS The editor is of prime importance

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One of the most important feature of CMS is editor.

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It is a tool in the hand of user which helps in adding and amending content.

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Before selecting your CMS, you should ensure that all your requirements are fulfilled by the editor in your CMS.

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Nowadays, more appropriate solutions have come up instead of editor to make the whole content management process an easy and comforting task.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Manage images and files in the best way ●

Your images and files should be managed in the best possible way to ensure that no technical issue arises.

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The bad management of these important attributes can lead to poor accessibility and usability.

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Choose a CMS that allows you to add <alt> tags to images and further provide you with image editing tools like cropping, resizing and rotating.

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Your content management system should allow you to upload and attach PDF files without a problem.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Search feature should be duly considered

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Search is one aspect which can be instrumental in your website's visitor experience.

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More than half of your visitors will be using this feature while looking for relevant content.

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Your search functionality should be fast and exhaustive to display everything to the online visitor.

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A speedy and thorough display will boost your website performance.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Customization is the key

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Your CMS website should be fully customizable so that it can be modified and used according to the user's needs.

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Your content management should not be over-powered by technology rather it should be manually controlled by the user.

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Choose a content management system which allows full flexibility as far as content retrieval and presentation is concerned.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS User interaction is taken into account ●

Your CMS should give you adequate opportunity to interact with the visitors.

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Gathering user feedback should be the an important aspect of any CMS website.

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Tools used for communicating with customers, news feed and RSS feed should be properly integrated in the website.

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Managing users should also be done in an effective way.

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You can interact with your users through emails, customize the fields depending upon the functions provided by your CMS.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Multiple website support is given ●

With the latest trend of running multiple websites from the same installation, your CMS should provide this facility.

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You might not need it presently but this will surely be required in the future.

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With your decision of targeting a narrower audience, you can easily switch from one website to the other with the same installation.

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You can also create a separate website exclusively for mobile as mobile web is increasing at a phenomenal rate.

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Who We Are?

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Smartinfosys.net is a leading website development and corporate branding company that has been on the scene since 2001.

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Our tagline "Empowering People and Business" well expresses our mission of providing highly functional & affordable websites & PHP based web applications to empower personal and business processes.

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No matter what stage of development your business, we've been there!

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