Content Management Systems (CMS)

A Content Management System, or CMS, is a fantastic tool for allowing you control over the content on your website. You can create, edit and delete content as and when you like! There is generally no need to contact your web designer, so saving you money!

So what's the difference between a CMS website and a normal static website...?

Static Website

Content on a static website is generally fixed, ie all the content is written on the page along with any necessary code. This means the content is hardcoded onto the each page, and so you have a physical page that is stored on the server, ready to be called when a user clicks a link to that page. Because the content is fixed, or static, on the page it can be quite difficult to modify if you don't know html.

CMS Website

Content on a CMS website is what is known as a dynamic website. This means the content is dynamic because it is created 'on the fly' when a user clicks a link to view a particular page. Because it is created when required there is never a physical page stored on the server. All the text and photography are stored in databases for retrieval at a later date.

As the content is stored on the database it allows for the development of the CMS to allow the user to edit the website pages. For more information about development go to our web development page.

CMS driven websites generally cost more due to the extra design and development involved. Not all websites require CMS, and are actually better off having static pages. We will be more than happy to advise you on whether you need a CMS website.

Our Experience

We can develop custom CMS driven websites or utilise Open Source solutions such as, Drupal and Joomla!.