Using a Content Management System for Your Websites

Running a website of any kind requires at least some degree of expertise in IT and the related technologies – especially if you’re looking to set up a website that serves dynamic content. This often requires not just good skills and experience, but also proper planning and consideration for the various elements you’re going to include in the design. And often, after laying down the blueprints and figuring out what you’re going to need, you make the sudden realization you’re in way over your head.

The solution? Use a content management system for your websites! There are plenty of complete, fully-fledged solutions of this type out there that can provide you with all the functionality you need in your future website. It doesn’t matter if you’re planning to host a picture gallery, a video reviewing website, or perhaps even something with an integrated forum and community features – you just need to pick one from the many content management systems available out there, do some tweaking to get it working exactly like you want it, and you’re all set!

If you’re not planning to profit from your website, there’s often not much reason to spend money on your CMS at all – most of the popular packages are offered with free versions, which sometimes actually give you access to the full range of features that paying users get, but prohibit you from using them for commercial purposes, or may impose some limitations on the support you’re eligible for. Additionally, with pretty much every such system out there, you’re obliged to leave their trademark and copyright notice at some visible place on all your pages (typically at the bottom), while paying for a license allows you to replace that with whatever you want – or get rid of it completely.

We mentioned support above – don’t be scared of the seemingly limited opportunities available to free users though! Even though the official support channels may be closed (or limited in functionality) to you if you’re not paying for the software, there are plenty of other ways you can get the help you need. Start with Google or your favorite search engine, then take it to a forum that specializes in the content management system your websites are using. If you need more immediate assistance, there are often IRC channels specializing in providing support for the various CMS types out there – and even if you’ve never chatted on IRC before, it’s trivially easy to set up and you don’t even need to install anything with the many browser-based clients available out there.

Last but not least, if you’re more tech-savvy and know your way around a scripting language, nothing’s stopping you from customizing the content management system in your websites completely! Web programs like these are technically open in their source code (they’re not always open-source though, there’s a difference in legal terms!) and you can change everything you want, if you know how. While changing some aspects may go against the limitations of your license, you’re still free to edit most of the important stuff, so have a go at it!

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