Webmaster and SEO Blog May Archive

How CMSs Will Save Your Site and Sanity

When I was just a wee, scrapping lad in my late twenties, I ran a number of fairly successful websites. My coding skills weren't great, but it didn't matter because technology hadn't yet left me in the dust. When I moved my biggest site to a CMS (Content Management System), it changed everything forever.

If you're hand-coding a website (or using a non-server-based program like Dream Weaver), you'll only be able to update as often as you, personally, as a human being, can find the time for.

By using WordPress, Blogger, PHPNuke, or any of the like, a few things change:

You can allow comments and ratings, making your site bigger and more interesting, effortlessly.

You can invite other writers to participate, and favorite writers to edit and moderate, and the site can grow even when you take a day off or sleep.

You can change the whole site, dating back to forever, with just a quick line of code.

You can have an RSS feed to spool out your content to the whole web.

Your site will be dynamic and modern.