- A Comparison between CMS based Sites & Static sites
- Good Content is vital to having a successful, popular and profitable website – the ability to change, edit and add new content it what the Internet was intended for. Content is the most important factor for search engines and thus a sites ranking – a CMS provides the ability to quickly control YOUR content without any 3rd party involvement.
- Static HTML pages contain for the average website owner a bewildering mixture of content and code, which mean certain coding skills are required and which for this reason, static pages are frequently more expensive to maintain and change as they require a long term partnership with a web design company.
- As static pages are commonly maintained by a web design company there is frequently a delay in getting new pages or edits correct as correspondence and tweaks takes time.
- As a static website grows as it always should it becomes harder and harder to keep track of modifications to pages, website navigation and errors are more likely to happen e.g. missing links to pages or out of date links to pages that no longer exist. If a link on a CMS doesn't point to a page that particular page doesn't exist on the website and most CMS's adjust when a page isn't present by removing that link.
- Content management systems separate all content from design making updates much easier than on a static site. When the appearance of your content management system based website needs to be updated it is far quicker to do as you just install a new template or theme as the design of a site is controlled by template system.
Database driven content management systems are not appropiate for every website. If you are uncertain about which type of website is best suited to your requirements please get in touch and we will be delighted to help.
