CMS stands for Content Management System. The term CMS Can be simplify to understand as a Software Application specifically designed to publish, organize, edit and maintain the content, website or application easily. Using Content Management System you can easily manage the application or website by your own, without having any special technical skills.
CMS is introduced in late 1990s and since then it is widely used mainly to develop websites, web applications, blogs, news portal, magazines, and shopping sites. Many corporate sectors as well as big brands use CMS to develop their system.
There are many advantages of using Content Management System (CMS). Some of them are as follows:
Cost effective and affordability
Some famous and widely used content management systems like Wordress, Joomla, Drupal are freely available to install, and others are subscription based at affordable cost. You just need to pay for customizing and integration the application on your system. As it is easy to maintain the application or website developed using CMS, you can also save on hiring a developer for maintaining and doing regular updates, by doing it at your own.
Easy customization
Major Content Management Systems follows universal standards for layout and functionality. CMS designs and tools are developed on less code and more GUI basis. It provides much ease for user to handle the application at frontend as well as backend.
No need of special technical skills
Content Management Systems are designed and developed with less complexity, codes and more GUI. Thus, CMS provide an easy and batter experience for everyone, even without having special or additional technical skills. You need not to provide special technical training or hire a new staff to handle the application or websites developed using CMS. With a little training, you or your staff could manage, add, edit the application easily.
Easy to update & manage
Content Management Systems provide you the facility to create users and manage the permissions. This will help you to control every how, when and who in the application.
SEO Friendly
CMS websites gets crawled and indexed much faster comparing to others and hence are good for SEO. Regular updation of fresh content, use of universal standards for layouts and designs, standard tools and coding formats are few major factors that help CMS Websites for doing Search Engine Optimization and to rank higher in Search Engines more quickly. Alternatively, CMS websites has various ready to use plugins and widgets that will help you in Social Media Promotion. This will help you to boost your online presence in Social Media and generate good website traffic. Another additional feature of CMS Website is auto-generated RSS feed, URL Structure, and some inbuilt applications, such as webmaster and analytics integration, that will provide you an ease for doing SEO on your website.