If you’ve spent any time researching content management systems lately, you’re aware that the market is absolutely full of competing products. It seems like a new CMS product is announced somewhere on the Web just about every week.

I think one of the main reasons for this flood of new products is that the barrier to entry is so low. To create a CMS, one only needs to create a way for a user to enter some information via a web form, save that information somewhere, and then display it as the content of a web page. Developers, in fact, will often create such a tool for their own use and then decide later to sell that tool to clients.

Additionally, the continual stream of new CMS products is driven by the fact that almost all websites are more easily managed via a CMS. Developers understand the benefits and the clients are starting to see the benefits so developers keep creating more systems.

So what’s the result, then, of having a marketplace filled with so many content management systems?

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A recently-released report from the Gartner research company lists technologies they believe will have the greatest impact on business over the next ten years. Among those technologies listed is the use of semantic markup “to reduce the costs and improve the quality of Web content management, information access, system interoperability, database integration and data quality.” Read the rest of this entry »

At Agency Fusion we’ve been thinking and talking a lot lately about creating multi-lingual websites. I think you’d agree the world is quickly getting smaller as communication and e-commerce technologies make it possible for even tiny companies to have customers scattered across the globe. Read the rest of this entry »

I think every website should have a Content Management System (CMS). Fortunately website owners are starting to think so too, but I still occasionally encounter a customer who doesn’t see the need or benefit of having a CMS.

Here are 10 reasons every website needs a Content Management System. Read the rest of this entry »

Most website projects begin with a discussion of the client’s needs/objectives and then progress to the design phase where the website’s layout or look and feel is established. After creating an attractive layout, the content of each page is decided upon.

While a site’s design is undoubtedly a significant factor in attracting and retaining visitors, a site’s content is usually the primary reason the visitor is there. The long term success of a website usually hinges on the sites’s ability to deliver relevant content that provides value to the visitor.

The following article discusses the importance of content in creating successful websites.

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