Website Project Management - Maintenance and Content Management Systems

Maintenance and Content Management Systems

Many organizations make the mistake of assuming that their website is done on “go live” day. This is only true if the site never changes and your customers do not expect updated content. After the site launch, it’s important to have a plan (and budget) for ongoing maintenance. Otherwise, you’ll end up with a stale and out-of-date website that may end up being worse than not having one at all.

Now you can just have your developer do the updates for you (and they’ll be happy to take your money), but in most cases you will be better served by a content management system (CMS). A CMS is a system that allows you to update your website yourself with little or no technical skill. There are a wide range of CMS’s available. The most basic may only allow you to update news or calendar events. At the other end of the spectrum, enterprise-level CMS’s allow access to all content, including images, menu items, new pages – you name it.

So why go with a CMS? In a word: control. If your site is easy to update, it just might actually get done – and it will be cheaper and quicker than farming it out.

Learn more about content management systems and the CMS that Idea Market uses...