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The History of Content Management Systems (CMS)
You may remember the early days of the world wide web, when the technology was new, the processors clunky, and you needed skilled software developers to develop and deploy a website. These software developers were very expensive indeed and could charge anything from £35 to £150 per hour. It often took a software developer days, weeks and even months to develop a website, and the development could cost £1000’s. Even worse, if changes were required to the site at any point, you needed a software engineer, and were usually constrained to using the same one you had used to build the site to make the changes, eliciting yet again another large bill.
This was followed by the evolution of tools with which to create your websites off-line and upload the pages to your hosting provider. This led to many website builders working without the software engineering skills previously required.
Even this new software, however, required graphic design skills to build a professional looking website.
Now website development has gone one step further with the evolution of Content Management Systems. These are systems which can create websites which have different development requirements than ever before. CMS designed websites can have their content added and changed virtually live on-line, making changes both infinitely possible as well as almost instantaneously. Text can be amended at will, images can uploaded and re-sized straight from your digital camera as often as you need. With this new software, adding and changing content should be, and is, as easy as using a word processing package such as Microsoft Word.
There are restrictions in the use of Content Management Systems, as quite often the ease of amendment means that the format is not 100% flexible, so for example navigation buttons may need to adhere to a certain style or position, but the benefits conferred by the ease of use more than outweigh any minor drawback.
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