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Pros and Cons of CMS Systems

What is CMS? It's short for "Content Management System" and was loosely built to make life easier for corporations with extensively large websites to keep the pages organized and easy to manage (a very basic explanation...). It has since morphed into a way for anyone to be able to actually update these pages too, using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

Content Management Systems come in many forms - some of the more popular of late are Blogs such as WordPress. Others are more sophisticated systems such as Drupal and Joomla. They are all software systems that run on a server and are managed through a web browser.

This article is to help those conteplating whether they should build/update their website in a CMS system or not. I address the pros and cons and leave it to you to decide! If I've missed anything for either column, I'd be happy to add your thoughts.