subject: Content Management System For Your Web Application [print this page] CMS, or Content Management System, is software that allows users to do web development, to update, edit and create new pages on their website. Content authoring and release is made much easier through the CMS application. It also streamlines the web publishing procedure to preserve content-rich websites.
Proprietary CMS
Proprietary CMS development comes with a licensing fee and proves to be quite costly for users. These systems have exceptional technical and customer support, and are replete with full features that are needed for application development. It is a very reliable system that provides your application with great professional support.
Open Source
When it comes to web development services, open source is a system that contains code. This system is developed with the help of open community or general public as they are allowed to write new code or to make update in the already existing one. The open source is available for free and can be used by anyone as per their needs. The system's installation is also very fast and easy when compared with other systems. Users can choose from several open source options available like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla etc.
Custom CMS
Now you can create manually your own application as per your pre-defined functionality through the Custom CMS development system. The development process can be managed by having prior knowledge of web programming and database. Depending on the functionality preferred by your organization, choose the right CMS from several available. You can either use free CMS programs or hire someone skilled to install a CMS, but you'd definitely need a skilled professional to integrate it properly.
Search Engine Optimizing your CMS
Good quality content is the key to search engine optimization and the result it garners. Hence, implementation of web content management system proves to be a great help to your search engine optimization process as well as beneficial for your web development services. You can generate unique and fresh content, and get good SEO results for your web application with the help of CMS.
Always be very careful about the search engine bots as they index your pages and get you great results. Add your own Meta and title tags to the pages, and alt tag code to all images. Using appropriate keywords in these tags would ensure a great search engine ranking for your pages. Also ensure that all your generated pages get automatically inserted into your global sitemap. This makes it easier for the search engine bots to find and spider all your new pages.
