Working with CMS
Published July 26, 2011 | 
This is just a general overview of how you can easily work with Content Management Systems such as Joomla or WordPress. I have already said that the most important feature of the CMS is the division of control over the template of your website and the control of the content itself. Once your website template and components are set up, you can safely update and modify the content (text, images, calenders, events, etc.).
CMS Choices
Published July 21, 2011 | As promised, we will talk more bout the free and open source content management systems that might be right for you. As for the actual choice, it is important to consult your web developer but knowing more about the most popular ones could make it easier asking the right questions. Bear with me for a short presentation of the three most popular CMS such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, from our humble experience.
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Let’s look through complexity together and come out with somewhat clearer ideas about what CMS can do for you.
Why Use Content Management Systems
Published July 11, 2011 | There are numerous commercial and free software that are made to make users more autonomous in managing their websites. In the times where web design software was your only option, such as DreamWeaver or Microsoft Expressions Web, you would probably give up before starting.
Without Content Management Systems
This expensive software was the last thing a small or medium organization would think of putting in its budget. As well, learning how to design or later on update a web site would seem far too complicated. Organizations would employ professionals, and would easily never acquire the login information to access the controls of their website. Those professionals were as well too expensive to continuously update content, and organizations would end up with a nice window to the world that they themselves never opened.
If you did decide to venture the steep learning curve of {codes} and {divs} and you did install a web design software on one of the computers in your organization, you would have to be very thorough in making sure that every update would actually end up on the remote server. You would be working on a local computer and then you would have to transfer one or many files each time you make changes to the file directory on the server. You would as well probably be alone in doing it, since two or more people working with the software could soon get confusing . Even worse, a slight 
change in text formatting, in position of an image or a margin and the whole website construction could lose its consistent appearance.
You may wonder, what could possibly be a solution to all the drawbacks I just named. No surprise, Content Management Systems are.