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A Beginners Guide to CMS Website Development

CMS website development is a cost effective, easy and efficient way of owning a website and managing its digital content without much technical expertise. Popular CMS used widely are WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Magento with WordPress leading in popularity. Owing to simplicity in managing the website content, changing versions, addition of pages and easy publishing tools makes WordPress a much favored CMS.
A Web content management system is the CMS designed for management of web pages. It mainly has two components.

1.    Content management application (CMA) a front end user interface which allows for change in content of Web pages without technical expertise.

2.    Content delivery system which updates changes onto the website.

CMS offers some shared features like SEO friendly URLs, modularity and extensibility, user and group functionality, templating support, install and upgrade wizards, integrated audit logs and compliancy with various accessibility frameworks and standards with custom Web development. However, it has some limitations when it comes to functionality.

CMS website development has many advantages like eliminated need for coding from scratch, easy and quick website development, version control and up gradation and edit permission management. The whole website is imparted a unified feel which is another advantage.

Disadvantages of CMS website development being limited functionality due to absence of customized layouts, Web applications etc. The extensibility of functions is limited to the plugins and applications featured in CMS. Also, technical expertise is needed at times for troubleshooting and effective content generation.

WordPress, however, eliminates the additional need for extending functionality through its wide range of plugins, over 45000. It has become a favorite platform for bloggers and website developers over the globe to present their craft and connect with world in an easy and efficient way.

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