using cms

Content management systems make maintaining a web site more practical and more affordable. In the past, if you wanted to build a web site, you built a set of static HTML pages — that is, you hard-coded each page with your text and images. The problem is that if you build a static web site,you are forever locked into working with page code each time you want to change the site.

Changing the contents of a page by manually changing the code on the page is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Managing a static site also locks you into hiring people with coding skills to perform content management tasks. Doing this can be a misuse of resources and is typically not a cost-effective approach to the problem. In contrast, if you use a content management system to power your web site, anyone with basic skills can make changes to the web site . You don’t need a programmer to change the text or images on a page. Most systems, including Joomla!, use a content management interface that is largely similar to what you see in common word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word.

The same arguments that help justify the use of a CMS apply in even greater force to an open source CMS. Open source systems tend to deliver the same high degree of functionality but for a relatively lower cost base. This favorable cost-to-benefit ratio is largely responsible for the success of the systems and helps explain why they have become especially popular for businesses both small and large.