CMS development

A CMS is a content management system, this allows anyone with a basic computer knowledge to manage a website. Whereas you normally have a website that only someone with web development skills can edit and amend features, which can therefore cause expenditure for yourself, as you need to pay someone each time to “add this picture in, and make the text bold”.
The features of a CMS vary from each one, but there are two main types of CMS, which are opensource and propierty.

• Open source is usually more advanced and it has an active community working on its enhancements, which include new features, or repairing bugs that others in the community have noticed.
• Proprietary is normally from a single company, e.g. Joe Bloggs Ltd has created a CMS for its customers to use called JB-CMS, this has limited functionality “out of the box” and new features and adaption’s need to be created on a per job basis.

Overall the huge benefit of opensource over proprietary is the fact that you can move from Joe Bloggs Ltd and go to John Smith Ltd and they can work on the CMS (if they have knowledge of that CMS) from the word go, however if you were to do this with JB-CMS (which is proprietary) then they would have to spend time working out how the CMS works and any “simple features” will take much longer to develop.

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