Open source CMS

  10:02    Newskyline

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At the most basic level, a CMS lets you upload and manage the content for your website. No matter the size or type of your business, a CMS has become almost indispensable. It operates on the backend of your website, allowing you to manage the content and other facets of your website, including the visual layout.

Another benefit of a CMS is that it makes it easy for users with varying levels of tech savviness. If your tech literacy is low, CMS systems have a variety of premade themes and plug-ins that have already been developed (think phone apps but for your website) and allow you to add tools, like search or appointment calendars, to your website.

Common features

Content management systems will often contain the following features:

-SEO-friendly URLs

-Integrated and online help

-Modularity and extensibility

-User and group functionality

-Templating support for changing designs

-Install and Upgrade wizards

-Integrated audit logs

-Compliancy with various accessibility frameworks and standards, such as WAI-ARIA

Advantages

-Reduced need to code from scratch

-The ability to create a website quickly

-The ability to create a unified look and feel

-Version control

-Edit permission management

W3Techs content system management report 

suggests that the leading top three CMS’s are
accountable for more than 70% of total CMS 
usage across all websites on the web.

How to read the diagram:

53.4% of the websites use none of the content
management systems that we monitor.

WordPress is used by 27.3% of all 
the websites, that is a content management 
system market share of 58.5%.