Content Management System... CMS... web authoring... WordPress... Joomla. It goes and goes, but the solution never seems quite at hand.
Existing CMS systems are either unwieldy "do-all" types or restrictive proprietary systems that take forever to learn and use properly... hopefully Greyhound's custom system is neither!
Our checklist for what a Content Management System should be:
Existing CMS systems are either unwieldy "do-all" types or restrictive proprietary systems that take forever to learn and use properly... hopefully Greyhound's custom system is neither!
Our checklist for what a Content Management System should be:
- WYSIWYG (What You See if What You Get)... no learning HTML tags.
- Quick and easy... when you just want to change one word, it shouldn't take fifteen minutes of logging in, navigating to the correct editing module etc.
- Built to work with your site... configuring blogging systems like Wordpress (a great blog, BTW) to manage all the content on your website is not the answer.
- Flexible... your CMS should not force you to only do things its way, it should be flexible enough to allow you to add the content you want in the format you want.
- But not too flexible... free form font styles, colors and sizes can make a website look disjointed and amateurish... a properly built CMS should allow easy access to style sheet based text styles that stay consistent across the whole site.