Content Management Systems (CMS) is an amazing application for the vast majority
of sites demanded by clients and that's almost a given in this age where publishing on-line is ubiquitous and free for all. In many cases, clients specify changes to be done to page content and as they add more services and change the way they provide existing ones they have a need to update and evolve their site and what they say about their business over time. This affords them freedom and control at the same time serving the clients in the best possible way
Open source content management system is a beautifully crafted design. Images are magazine quality, the code and CSS are W3C validated and all design elements are placed pixel perfect on the page. The designer spends a great deal of time cross-browser testing and working with the design to get it just right for different display media/devices.From the time the site goes live the sentiment is positive and praise heaped upon the design team. At the end of the day the client delighted to see the newly created corporate image which is the result of the amazing features of cms.
If the company intends to edit its site to display news items and special offers and decide that the corporate message should be worded differently.. Many companies witness problem while altering their websites to make them more catchy but when they upload the site along with some pre-formatted text from a word-processed document, the table structure of this perfectly crafted site creaks and groans under the strain of the unformatted content and ultimately buckles out of position, pushing images and text left and right to form a design layout that fails to impress from whatever angle you choose to tilt your head.From an elegant and tasteful piece of design and web craftsmanship it becomes an eye-sore in one click of the CMS Add button.
But a good web site should be designed with CMS edit functions which don't intrude upon design or which prevent this kind of disruption to layout and visual aesthetics some may say. Time and time again, we painstakingly craft elegantly designed sites for clients who after a few months uploading their content seem to unwittingly reduce their sites to visual rubble. There will come a day the day when we can develop a CMS which will go beyond the usual content management systems paving way to revolutionlike it would take four minutes to view pages on a connection less than 100 MBps. If a site is particularly design conscious or in any way perfectionist in terms of its visual style or layout, you should give due consideration to the use of a CMS, and if you are going to offer your clients direct editing control on their site, that it is implemented carefully.