Choose your ultimate CMS Website – Comprehensive Checklist

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How to choose your ultimate CMS website? Content Management System is essential & should have highest priority


Introduction

Choosing the best CMS based website can be a tricky exercise.

With so many options available such as wordpress, joomla, magento, drupal, etc you might get confused without a proper planning.

Choosing a content management system can be tricky.

Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you can be deceived by the various fancy functionality which is both costly and not fit for your use.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Core functionality should be atleast present

You should atleast focus on core functionality like creating, deleting and editing pages while going for CMS.

It should not be taken for granted that all CMS provide this core functions.

You should first choose the basic functionality which you are looking for in your CMS website.

Though there are many content management system present in the market with basic functionality, they vary in their usability.

Go for a trail test before finalizing your CMS.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS The editor is of prime importance

One of the most important feature of CMS is editor.

It is a tool in the hand of user which helps in adding and amending content.

Before selecting your CMS, you should ensure that all your requirements are fulfilled by the editor in your CMS.

Nowadays, more appropriate solutions have come up instead of editor to make the whole content management process an easy and comforting task.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Manage images and files in the best way ●

Your images and files should be managed in the best possible way to ensure that no technical issue arises.

The bad management of these important attributes can lead to poor accessibility and usability.

Choose a CMS that allows you to add <alt> tags to images and further provide you with image editing tools like cropping, resizing and rotating.

Your content management system should allow you to upload and attach PDF files without a problem.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Search feature should be duly considered

Search is one aspect which can be instrumental in your website's visitor experience.

More than half of your visitors will be using this feature while looking for relevant content.

Your search functionality should be fast and exhaustive to display everything to the online visitor.

A speedy and thorough display will boost your website performance.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Customization is the key

Your CMS website should be fully customizable so that it can be modified and used according to the user's needs.

Your content management should not be over-powered by technology rather it should be manually controlled by the user.

Choose a content management system which allows full flexibility as far as content retrieval and presentation is concerned.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS User interaction is taken into account ●

Your CMS should give you adequate opportunity to interact with the visitors.

Gathering user feedback should be the an important aspect of any CMS website.

Tools used for communicating with customers, news feed and RSS feed should be properly integrated in the website.

Managing users should also be done in an effective way.

You can interact with your users through emails, customize the fields depending upon the functions provided by your CMS.

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Checklist – Choosing your ultimate CMS Multiple website support is given ●

With the latest trend of running multiple websites from the same installation, your CMS should provide this facility.

You might not need it presently but this will surely be required in the future.

With your decision of targeting a narrower audience, you can easily switch from one website to the other with the same installation.

You can also create a separate website exclusively for mobile as mobile web is increasing at a phenomenal rate.

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