Website content management tools have been evolving for years (and years). As we posted before, building your website on a CMS platform is an excellent choice in most cases. It is critical for our clients to update their sites constantly to keep them not only relevant, but also ahead of their competition. And, our clients are filling more roles than ever with less time, so – it better be easy to do.

Our CMS allows clients to have a custom website design, that is super-easy to update. The best part is the price. Because we didn’t re-invent the wheel when developing our CMS the development time is reasonable and so are the budgets. The technology is not proprietary, it’s based on existing open source code and widely used languages like PHP, so there are no ongoing fees or complicated hosting changes.

CGI’s CMS isn’t for every company, but its easy to use, easy to build onto and you’ll see very quickly why our clients love it.

Back in the 90’s the internet was still a new concept that a small percentage of people used for information. Those who knew basic HTML developed websites that (with today’s standards) did very little other than display text and images. Over years of new technologies and code languages we’ve evolved some simple HTML-only websites to complex, multi-language websites. Some websites are not even built using HTML or similar website specific code but instead entirely in Flash.

Those HTML websites back in the 90’s (and there are still websites today built like this, unfortunately) required you to connect to your server, find the specific file, look at the raw HTML code, make your edits, and then upload the changes. Not only was this time consuming but when you had a website with dozens of pages, it was tedious.

Over the last several years there have been many content management systems (CMS) developed and proven to make website management dramatically easier and time-friendly. Here at CGI we developed our own CMS which several clients now have their websites built upon. This enables our clients to modify their content pages, add and remove content, upload images, etc., to there own website without the hassle of using an FTP program to upload updated files to their web server.

What CMS program do you use? Why is it your CMS of choice?