At some point, your website will become too large. Good news! However, it also means that you will need a system to efficiently manage content on your website. The key to success of a website is allowing your visitors to find what they want to peruse in the easiest way possible. To be able to provide that you will need a system to collect, format, publish, and link all the content in a way that old content and new content support each other and are consistent in their look and feel.
What you will need is a content management system. There are several companies that provide high quality content management solutions. Of course, we would like to mention Refresh Software right here in our neighborhood. We have heard great things about them at various networking events. Some other firms active in the content management space are Ektron, which is also based close to where we are and we also visited their counter at a trade show in New York City, Octigon, APW, IBM, Serena, PaperThin, OpenText, RoboInfo, Omnibility, etc.
How to pick a content management system?
What you will need is a content management system. There are several companies that provide high quality content management solutions. Of course, we would like to mention Refresh Software right here in our neighborhood. We have heard great things about them at various networking events. Some other firms active in the content management space are Ektron, which is also based close to where we are and we also visited their counter at a trade show in New York City, Octigon, APW, IBM, Serena, PaperThin, OpenText, RoboInfo, Omnibility, etc.
How to pick a content management system?
- Check out the offering first and actually use it. Do not buy it till you are sure that it meets "your" requirements.
- Negotiate the fees and license in such a way that you can use it for multiple URLs. Even we manage five websites now and it would not make sense for us to have five licenses.
- Find out how you will migrate to the new content management system. It should be easy and simple; otherwise you will burn a lot of resources in moving your website.
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