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		<title>Designing Websites With CMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With CMS (Content Management Systems) users can easily build websites without using hard coding. They are hugely popular and have revolutionised the web design industry. If you want to create a website but have little experience of CSS, HTML and other complicated programming languages, these systems provide a brilliant opportunity. With a CMS there is [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With CMS (Content Management Systems) users can easily build websites without using hard coding. They are hugely popular and have revolutionised the web design industry. If you want to create a website but have little experience of CSS, HTML and other complicated programming languages, these systems provide a brilliant opportunity. With a CMS there is less requirement to learn web-based coding, the set-up and administration of content management system websites is straightforward to navigate allowing the majority of people to construct their own website with just basic technical understanding.</p>
<p> Small businesses and anyone else who is limited by a tight budget will find CMS a very good choice. You will not have to pay out for a professionally designed site if you can use CMS and do it yourself. When you build your own site, you have more influence over its appearance and content.</p>
<p> When you regularly refresh the information on your website: assists you to keep visitors to your site interested and can boost the overall amount of site traffic you receive. Changing the design of your site at a later stage is relatively straightforward and can be achieved without altering its content.</p>
<p> With CMS information and data within your website is managed through the use of designated folders. Access to data held within the folders is restricted. Whilst you will not be likely to want assistance with managing the content on your website in its early stages, this will become useful as your website grows. Sites are protected from threats using sophisticated security systems.</p>
<p> Multiple users can communicate freely through instant messaging, email, and forums, with a highly interactive website built with CMS. This versatility and appeal often leads to a boost in the number of visitors and achieves a higher search engine ranking.</p>
<p> Many sites experience problems with the length of time it can take for pages to load when they have large amounts of visitors to their website. This is not an issue however when you use CMS because there are features in place to ensure that pages load at a faster rate.</p>
<p> Joomla, Drupal and WordPress are the top 3 content management systems. All of these can be downloaded freely and modified to suit your needs.</p>
<p> For Web designers, Joomla tends to be the most popular choice. It has loads of easily personalised features which make it designer friendly. It is best suited to individuals with a little experience of web building because it can be tricky to integrate the software.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Designing-Websites-With-CMS&amp;id=6521068">Web Design Bristol</a></p>
<p>Drupal is excellent for creating more complicated sites, because of its advanced features which allow developers to modify its code easily Many would say that it lacks in quality design features.</p>
<p> WordPress is known as the most straightforward of these three to pick up, particularly for beginners with little or no experience.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.willowtreedesign.co.uk/">Web Design Bristol</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.willowtreedesign.co.uk/">Web Design Somerset</a></p>


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		<title>Picking The Right Content Management System</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web design has become far more accessible to mass audiences in recent times, as you no longer need to have an in-depth knowledge of HTML and/or CSS in order to get a decent looking site up and running. Content management systems such as WordPress have made designing your site as simple as installing the CMS [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.designbysoap.co.uk/web-design">Web design</a> has become far more accessible to mass audiences in recent times, as you no longer need to have an in-depth knowledge of HTML and/or CSS in order to get a decent looking site up and running. Content management systems such as WordPress have made designing your site as simple as installing the CMS and choosing from numerous paid or free themes. Users then only need to add content in order to get their web presence started.</p>
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<p>However, how can you be sure which CMS is most suitable? There are a huge variety of content management systems available to users, although most people will probably be well advised to go with one of the major open-source systems. In order to help you choose which one is most suitable, here&#8217;s a quick guide to the main CMS&#8217;s available.</p>
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<p>Probably the most famous and widely used content management system in existence is WordPress, which is probably a good choice for the majority of people. As well as boasting a wide variety of themes for users to choose from, the open-source plugins available for the WordPress CMS make it one of the most versatile and useful systems available. There are several <a target="_blank" href="http://www.designbysoap.co.uk/seo">SEO</a> based plugins, allowing you to ensure you have a fully optimised website.</p>
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<p>Magento is a good choice if you&#8217;re looking specifically for an e-commerce CMS, as it&#8217;s designed specifically to handle online payments and selling. Most users argue that Magento isn&#8217;t as versatile as some of the other systems available, but it&#8217;s still an excellent tool for e-commerce websites.</p>
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<p>Joomla and Drupal are both very strong candidates for your chosen CMS, although most users would argue that neither are as effective as the WordPress system. With that said however, the overall look and functionality of these two content management systems is excellent, and both will give you the professional look and ease of use you&#8217;re after.</p>
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<p>Probably the best way for you to choose which one is best for you is to try them out for yourself, giving you a much better idea of how the CMS works with your requirements. There are several other high profile CMS&#8217;s available, although the four mentioned above are easily the most popular and widely used.</p>
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<p>Written by John: A <a target="_blank" href="http://www.johnpring.co.uk/freelance-copywriting">freelance copywriter</a> specialising in SEO and website copy.</p>
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		<title>Build A Website Easily With Drupal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drupal, an open source software, was created in 2000 by two students at the University of Antwerp, Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder. The name &#8220;Drupal&#8221; is based on the English pronunciation of the Dutch word &#8220;druppel,&#8221; which means &#8220;drop.&#8221; Drupal is coded in PHP, and it&#8217;s free. This software is a very sophisticated Content Management [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drupal, an open source software, was created in 2000 by two students at the University of Antwerp, Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder. The name &#8220;Drupal&#8221; is based on the English pronunciation of the Dutch word &#8220;druppel,&#8221; which means &#8220;drop.&#8221; Drupal is coded in PHP, and it&#8217;s free.</p>
<p>This software is a very sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) and can be used to construct a variety of online applications such as websites, blogs and social networking sites. As a matter of fact, there are essentially no limits on what you can use Drupal for. And most important, Drupal is free.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to understand or be able to use any programming languages to use Drupal. All you need to know is some basic technical knowledge such as basic web browsing and word processing. You don&#8217;t need to have any advanced programming skills or know how to use HTML. Drupal includes an easy to use, intuitive web installer that makes the installation process very easy. After the software is installed you choose your website design and the types of contents you will have on your website.</p>
<p>This Content Management System offers many benefits. It&#8217;s SEO friendly and lets you exercise better control over the structure of your website&#8217;s URLs. It can customize the content of your website and help your site obtain better search engine rankings. It also uses a tool, called the Content Construction Kit, which helps you easily come up with varied content.</p>
<p>Drupal has a wonderful online community for developers. The community members are ready to help and constantly work toward improving the technology. The Internet features a lot of information about Drupal and how to use it to accomplish various purposes.</p>
<p>Learning how to use Drupal is not difficult, but you should learn Drupal the correct way. Private lessons are by far the best, but they can be much too expensive for most people. You could also learn Drupal by playing around with it, so that you pick it up along the way. But if you are serious about using Drupal as your CMS, you should probably look at some of the <a target="_blank" href="http://dtutorials.com">Drupal Tutorials</a> that are available. There are many tutorials on the Internet, but the most popular are assembled together on the <a target="_blank" href="http://dtutorials.com">drupal tutorials</a> website.</p>
<p>Drupal is not just used for creating websites. Because of the great flexibility of its configuration, Drupal can also be used for constructing e-commerce systems and powerful branding. You might encounter some problems while learning how to do this but your questions can be easily resolved because the Drupal CMS is backed by strong community support.</p>
<p>Take a look around the online market. You&#8217;ll find that Drupal was used to construct many corporate and social websites, including Popsugar social network, NASA, Theonion and others. Even  US President&#8217;s website at whitehouse.cov is built on Drupal.</p>
<p>Drupal is extremely powerful and can be a solution for building websites large and small. It has an extensive library of tutorials and jobs working with Drupal are some of the most wanted on the market today. Right now, Drupal jobs and <a target="_blank" href="http://timonweb.com/drupal-services">drupal services</a> are some of the most wanted jobs on the market. So don&#8217;t hesitate. Join Drupal and walk along with its progress.</p>


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		<title>Why WordPress is great as a content management system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress was originally created as an open source blogging platform, but it is since grown into a comprehensive content management system (CMS) that can power all sorts of website. Despite this, its legacy as a blogging system has meant that many developers and users have looked down at WordPress as inferior to other open source [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress was originally created as an open source blogging platform, but it is since grown into a comprehensive content management system (CMS) that can power all sorts of website.</p>
<p>Despite this, its legacy as a blogging system has meant that many developers and users have looked down at WordPress as inferior to other open source content management systems, like Drupal and Joomla.  Recently, there has been a change in attitude that has at last been marked by WordPress winning “The Overall Best Open Source CMS Award” at the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.</p>
<p>Below are 4 good reasons to use WordPress as a CMS:</p>
<p><strong>1.    It&#8217;s open source<br /></strong></p>
<p>As an open source content management system, WordPress is not just free, but also there is a continuous improvement by the community of dedicated developers across the globe, and it also has an fantastic array of plug-ins (mostly free) that allow the user to effortlessly add virtually any feature that you could imagine your website, at the click of a button.</p>
<p><strong>2.    Simple to use</strong></p>
<p>The main reason for using a CMS is that it makes it easy to edit the text and images of your website without needing any special software or programming experience, yet some content management systems are very confusing and daunting to beginners, especially if they&#8217;re not tech savvy.  WordPress has a simple, user friendly control panel that makes updating your website just like editing documents in Microsoft Word.</p>
<p><strong>3.    Pleasing to the eye<br /></strong></p>
<p>Obviously, the appearance of your site primarily depends on your design, not your CMS, but the great thing about WordPress is that there are virtually no limits on how your design can look.  Some CMS softwares have limited layouts, and you can&#8217;t change much apart from colours and insert your <a target="_blank" title="Custom Logo Design" href="http://www.scamperbranding.com/custom-logo-design/">custom logo design</a>, but with WordPress your website can look like you want it to and perfectly represent your <a target="_blank" title="Brand Design Agency" href="http://www.scamperbranding.com">brand design</a>.</p>
<p><strong>4.    It is SEO friendly<br /></strong></p>
<p>Some content management systems have complex code that makes it difficult for search engines to read your pages.  WordPress is fantastic for <a target="_blank" title="SEO Web Design" href="http://www.scamperbranding.com/seo-web-design/">SEO web design</a> with clean code, readable URLs and loads of free SEO plug-ins to help you work on your meta tags, cross-linking, alt tags, Google site map and more without needing any special programming experience.</p>


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