5 Things to Consider While Selecting a CMS for You
Choosing a CMS can seem a bit difficult if you don’t have clear set of business goals and requirements. Sometimes, it happens due to lack of clear cut ideas or motives behind selecting CMS, you get seduced by the complex functionalities of CMS which actually you don’t require or you may not be able to handle. So in that case, it is very important to consider following 5 things. These will definitely help you in selecting the most appropriate CMS for you:
1. Focus on Core Functionality: If you think that you just need a CMS, which should enable you to create, edit, publish and manage the content and if you assume that all CMS would be able to provide with the same then, you are wrong. Not all CMS allow the users to manage their pages in true hierarchy. May be if not at initial stage, you require the CMS which can organize and structure your pages well, it does not mean that requirements can not arise in the future.
2. Easy to use Interface: The Editor is an interface through which content is created and modified. It has to be simple and easy to use. The majority of content management systems have a WYSIWYG editor. This editor allows the users to have a complete control over the design. The new generation of editors takes a different approach. Content providers use the editor to mark up headings, lists, and they have no control over the whole text will look like.
3. Scope of Customization: Always select a CMS that allows the scope of heavy customization. It should provide the flexibility in the way the content is presented. The content presentation should not be dictated by technological constraints in a way that the non geeks should not feel helpless when trying to give a new look the next time.
4. Assigning Roles and Permissions: Continuing talking about the flexibility aspect of CMS, you need to see that you could assign roles and permissions to who can edit what. As the number of content providers increases on your websites, you definitely require a CMS which can assign permissions to different levels.
5. Third Party Interactions: If you want to gather user feedback, comments or want to open forums, communities, user-groups, you need to make sure that your CMS must provide that functionality or allow a third-party plug-in to provide it.
The above mentioned points will definitely help you to select the best CMS for you. For this, you also need to enlist your business goals and objectives to achieve along with it.
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