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Johannesburg 2007 Content
Management: What must a website have to become
a Web Winner?
As part of our comprehensive
approach to the management of your website we have a simple proven world
renowned system that makes it easy, cheap and simple for you to maintain
your own website.
Most web developers would like to develop a content management system for
you as they are able to charge upwards of R35,000 for this facility.
Basically how it works is that all your web pages are contained within a
database, you go onto the Internet and login with a user name and password
and from here you are able to update your web pages. ALL these systems are
expensive and cumbersome the reason being is that they follow and use a
template system. Restrictions about what you can and cannot do in the system
are plenty. The end result is that you are frustrated and feel that you are
being ruled by the system as opposed to the other way around.
Definition: A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.
The Web-based publishing feature allows individuals to use a template or a set of templates approved by the organization, as well as wizards and other tools to create or modify Web content.
The Web Winners Content Management Solution
Web Winners use Microsoft technology throughout the enterprise. This is not
that we love Microsoft but it is the more realistic solution to use because
of it's world domination in PC, customer systems and server technology.
Microsoft Front Page is one of their products which allows someone to
connect to the Web Server and do everything that you want to do when
making changes to a website. In Johannesburg the software costs about R2,000
and anyone who can use Microsoft Word will pick up how to use Front Page in
about 15 minutes.
What you cannot do in Microsoft Front page?
Firstly what you
cannot do is manage an ecommerce website successfully. This is because
by their very nature ecommerce websites have to store everything in a
database including product categories, products, prices and a host of other
information in order to track a shopping cart purchaser and fulfil the
demand of making a purchase as quickly and simply as possible. An
e-commerce system is therefore very different than a company brochure
website that has HTML pages which need to be updated. Web Winners
provide content management solutions for this kind of website.
What you CAN do in Microsoft Front Page
You are able to connect
to the web server where your website is being hosted. You are able to view
any file in the web system, and you can edit pages, upload photographs,
upload documents and create hyperlinks to this information. You are able to
create new web pages when you have new information to publish and everything
can be displayed LIVE on the Internet immediately a change has been made.
We recommend Microsoft Front Page for all websites that are normal brochure
type sites. We provide any help and assistance and training to our clients
at no cost.
To view an online demo and to see what Front Page looks like
click here Web Winners develop your company web design with these factors as part
of our service.
We offer three distinct Web Winners design and development packages for any business website
web design that you want.
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