What is a Content Management System?

Assuming you’re a non-techie, have nave no programming or mark-up language experience and have minimal knowledge of website development; How do you build a website? That’s where your Web Content Management System comes into play! A Content Management System basically offers you a set of tools that allow you to build and manage a website through a clean interface, allowing you skip the coding know how.

Why Do I Need One?

Using a Web Content Management System over a coded website has a number of benefits:

• Easy to use for new users, using a helpful interfaces that are easy to understand

• Free to Install & Manage- All you need is a web hosting subscription

• Little to no programming or mark-up language knowledge needed

• Bloggers and can write up content easily as well as post articles after review

• With great software developers, plugins updates are regular keeping your website up to day

Disadvantages to Using Content Management Systems

There are a few disadvantages in using a Web Content Management System that mainly occur if you’re developing on higher a level. For instance, developing a website for a business or organization you might need more functionality than that can be acquired freely will require more financial flexibility. Therefore, licensing and subscriptions can become a bit of an issue budgeting wise.

However, if this is the first website you’re building, I doubt your website needs the functionality of the those higher end plugins and themes. Using a Content Management System such as WordPress offers free plugins and themes that work great to start you off with, giving you all the basic functionality you need!

Picking the Right Web Content Management System for You

There are a number of different CMS’s out there today and if you’re just now learning about them, I’m sure you’re wondering where to go from here. Included below is an image outlining the Content Management Systems most popular on today’s market through search popularity.

With the statistics in mind, as well it being our preferred CMS. I have to encourage you install WordPress. It’s a free website builder that uses an open-source CMS. It has loads of great plugins & themes from amazing developers that makes the website development process that much easier!

If that isn’t an encouragement enough- it’s the most popular Web Content Management System on the market. Most of our guides are also written from the perspective of WordPress users; So you’ll have all the tools you need to help you along the website development process.

Installing Your Content Management System

If you’ve setup a hosting service as well as a domain. You’re now ready to go ahead and install your Content Management System!

Enter the C-panel of your domain through your web hosting services website. You’ll be greeted by a number of different icons and headings, you’re looking for WordPress. Once you’ve found it go right ahead and install it on your domain.

Here’s a video outlining the process to help, I’ve timestamped the relevant point. Keep in mind your C-Panel might look entirely different from video authors C-Panel.