CHOOSING THE RIGHT CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Choosing the right Content Management System is crucial to the success of any company or business. 

So if you need help in choosing the right Website CMS then you have found the right article.

Firstly you need to understand what a web content management system is and what it will do to help you with your proposed website.

A WMCS (WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM) is designed to make website content writing, authoring, collaboration, administration and indexing much easier. By easier I mean they are supposed to remove the need for any skills or expertise in programming. But you still need to be trained on using the software to varying degrees depending on each WCMS.

So why would you need to use one of these Web Content Management Systems. Well that then takes me to the pros and cons of WCMS.

The Pros 
  • Relatively low start up costs
  • templates and quick to build
  • Simple to use with little training 
  • Easy customization and add ons
  • Access Control
  • Document Control
  • Great for workflow projects

What I say
  • Great for multiple authors and users,
  • Great for tracking and authorising version updates,
  • Great for writing lots of content, articles, blogs and social media plugins and creating online communities.
  • Only really comes into it's own if you have lots and lots of content and pages and users.
  • Great for finding and organizing content on large websites.

So on quick reflection I would say that WCMS are great for Newspaper style websites and big blog sites. Or website where you have multiple users, editors accessing a site that needs to have it's content publication controlled and documented

The Cons
  • Add ons, license, upgrades can become expensive,
  • Constant Software Updates and downloads,
  • Bad for SEO as will require additional training,
  • Slowdown caused by latency issues
  • Inherent SEO issues with some themes and designs
  • Can become unstable and require to much technical support.
  • Content Duplication Issues
  • Complexity of solving other errors and problems arising

What I say
  • With some CMSs you have to pay for each addition, say you want to add a widget or function, you have to pay for it and then some functions are not covered by your particular licence, then you have to upgrade to get that additional functionality,
  • Can become very slow if your not careful with the coding, plugins and site and page cache.
  • Some of the look up features are not liked by search engines and produce unfriendly urls.
  • Some are not user friendly and common functions are hidden behind lots of menus and sections,
  • Needs to be managed constantly,
  • Some are more complicated than just writing the coding yourself,
  • Some create more problems and issues than they solve.
  • You need to become an expert, which can be a lengthy process.

ARE ALL CMS SYSTEMS THE SAME?

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There are loads of content management system out there some are better than others and some I would just simply stay well away from. Most are just sheer overkill for a simple website such as this!

WordPress
What can I say about WordPress that makes it sound as though I like it?

Well you can design just about anything in it and I have seen some amazing stuff produced using Wordpress. 

It is the most popular CMS for blogging and the most popular content management system used by web designers and beginners alike.

It has excellent in depth documentation to help all it's users.

Great community and help is always at hand in the forums.

WordPress has hundreds of plugins and themes to choose from.

What I don't like is I find it all a bit overkill if you only have a small website. Plugins don't alway work properly with other plugins and the design

Wordpress is not intuitive. 

And you can end up running into many problems with some of the themes and plugins creating duplicate content. Read More >

Concrete5 - Horrid Support
Drupal - Good for Cloning
Joomla! - Expensive upgrades

Would I use any of them

Simple answer is No

Would I recommend any of them.

Yes but only if the intention is for someone to build a very large website. That has about a dozen users and lots of content being produced that needs to be managed and controlled, indexed and searched.
Has in house experts for that platform who can solve many of the inherent issues and problems.

At the end of the day if you are wanting to have someone else build you a simple website do it in HTML coding.

This will be much quicker in terms of overall site speed.

Much cheaper in terms of ongoing costs and maintenance.

And requires about the same amount of teaching or knowledge to make the basic changes that you are allowing people to make in a content management system. 
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CHOOSING THE RIGHT SEO CONSULTANT

​As a SEO consultant in London I carry out consultancy work for individuals, sole traders, small companies and large businesses.  Providing specialist SEO advice on several different levels in and around London. We help start up businesses, new businesses and established companies.

So what can an SEO Consultant do for you or your company?
  • Provide unbiased behind the scene technical advice on new and exisiting websites,
  • Advise on best practices, web page structure, content, accessibilty and performance, 
  • Provide support and advice with Social Media, Online Marketing campaigns, PPC (Pay Per Click Marketing), Keywords,
  • Design and build a new website and provide ongoing SEO Support and website management,
  • Fix problems with existing websites, correct errors and improve site structure and on and off-page SEO,
  • Provide SEO training and SEO workshops to help improve the knowledge of you and your web design team, article writers, content managers, bloggers, writers and SEO's.

WEBSITE FUNDAMENTALS

Websites are coded using these 4 main programming languages and are essential in building a website and can have significant effects on SEO including website page load speeds and functionality.

HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure of a Web page including content and elements within a page.
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CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and can help save 
CSS saves a lot of work of work and time when it comes to building a website. CSS controls the layout and style of multiple web pages all at once.

PHP

PHP Hyper Text Markup Language is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. PHP is a widely-used, free, and alternative to Microsoft's ASP.
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JS

JS stands for JavaScript  and enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate and images. It's very useful at making website fun, user responsive and interactive.

SOME CMS CAN ADD CODING THAT SLOWS THE WEBSITE DOWN

Some WCMS or CMS Website Cntent Management Systems can add another level of coding, by that I mean HTML, CSS and Javascript that can slow the frontend of the website down, There are ways of reducing this, but it requires a level of skill and knowldge.
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2. Speed of Website- SEO Impact Medium to Low
Google prefers fast websites and websites that are mobile phone optimised. To get a fast website it needs to be written in good code, the newer the better and should certainly have very few coding errors, Additionaly the content needs to be streamlined and you can do this by compressing or Gzipping your HTML, CSS and Javascript Code . Some things that will slow your website down are:
  • Incorrect code errors or warnings
  • Old code,
  • Inline styles
  • Large image files,
  • Too many large images,
  • Too many CSS Files,
  • Mark up or Spaces in your HTML Code
  • Don't use Flash - 
  • Don't use Frames
  • Do not use too many or try not to use any Nested Tables,
  • To many JavaScript files.
 Optimise Javascript
Java-Script files depending on your theme and the plugins you employ can really slow your website down.
There are several things we can do to improve this.
Remove unused JavaScript file
Some themes may run Javascript files that are actually not used. If they are not used you can remove these.
Combine JavasScript Files
Instead of your web page calling 3 or 4 different Javas-Script files you can merge these to decrease the number of times the page calls upon different resources.
Compress JavaScript Files
You can also compress the JavaScript so it contains no spaces and is shorter and therefore smaller in size.
Defer JavaScript Files or Move to Bottom of Page
Some JavaScript Files do not need to be loaded in the head of the page and you can therefore load these in the body or footer of the page. This will allow critical content in the above fold to be loaded quicker and improve loading times.
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