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A CMS is used generally by the website owner, to manage the content on your own. It's a web-based system that allows you to build your website without needing to be a programmer.
With a CMS, you can add unlimited pages to your website, modify and sort navigation menus and widgets, manage categories and news articles, blogs, control content such as homepage sliders, and much more. Basically, anything you wish to control you can do on your own with a CMS.
You don't necessarily need a CMS, but one could make your life easier. Unless you're a programmer on your own, without a CMS you will need to contact your web designer whenever you want to make a change to your website. Some of our customers are fine with that arrangement as they are not technical and would rather us manage the content for them. Some other clients are interested in managing the content without having to contact us. It all depends on how large the website is, and the needs of the client.
Generally they carry an additional cost up-front as your website will have to be "integrated" into the CMS backend. But over the long run, you could wind up saving money by managing the content on your own without having to rely on a web design company to do it for you.
Additionally, a CMS will need to be built with a programming language and a database to store all of your data that powers your website.
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Below are some reasons why you should be using a CMS:
If you're on the go or it's the middle of the night and you need to change something on your website before that next meeting, you can log in and make your change immediately. Without a CMS you'd be left emailing your web company who may be tied up at the moment.
Your CMS will be built with HTML text editors which are similar to using Microsoft Word which most people are familiar with. If you know how to make things bold, change colors, and drag in images, then you already know how to manage the content on your website.
If you want to redesign your website in the future and you have hundreds of pages in a CMS system, only one template page will have to be changed since all of your content is stored in a database. This can save time and money in the future by having to change hundreds of static HTML files individually.
