Building a Professional Content Management System for Your Clients
Melbo; a website development consultancy offering a range of CMS (content management systems). Utilizing a content management system is ideal if you are not technically minded and wish for a a
really simple solution to edit text and images on your site. There’s literally millions of content management systems at your disposal starting at a few dollars right up to a few thousand dollars. WordPress is one of the most common CMS on the market, an open-source content management systems written in MySQL and PHP.
As a web dev agency, Melbo have made Content Management Solutions for many websites, such as Sample.
You will normally find these features in a basic CMS:
- New page creation
- Ability to manage content, text, images, links, video, buttons etc
- Meta data management
- Plain text editor or HTML editor
- Template support. Ability to change colour/theme of website
- Content versioning
- Localisation / multi-lingual support
- Group management/permissions
If you’re after for a made-to-order content management system to suit your demands, there are a whole host of web dev consultancy firms providing this service. If you do choose to follow this route you will almost always have to produce a FRS (which stands for functional requirement specification) before the web design bureau is able to provide a quote. This is a formal document, usually prepared by a project manager, which details your tailored Content Management System requirements.
A wise decision would be to contact half a dozen web design firms and put the FRS forward for open tender, whereby you can expect 3 or 4 quotes allowing you to select the right price point for you.