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Content Management as a Business Solution

Once you discover the power behind a content management system, you will never look at a website the same way again! Learn how you can lower your website development costs, your maintenance costs, and put more money in your pocket from your website.

Any content management system is, at its core, a database; a storage depot located on the server that hosts your domain. At its finest, a content management system is an incredible business or networking tool that is totally customizable and extendable.

Extensibility

Yes, you can extend the capabilities of your site any time you have the need. Meaning that thousands of plugins and extensions can be downloaded for use on your website - most of them free. So things like flash modules (like the one seen here) are no longer a difficult, expensive proposition to add to your site. Things like contact forms, banners, news and RSS feeds, blogs, polls, shopping carts, secure checkout,... the list goes on and on.

Then, there is the real jewel of a CMS, the ability to mange, manipulate, change, add, and delete any of the content on your site. Any time, from anywhere. You see, because all of the content is stored in a database on your server, you have unlimited access to it! If you need to upload something, an image for example, it's as easy as clicking your mouse two or three times and you now have access to that peice of content forever - or untill you decide to delete it. You can controll where to show your content, how to show your content, and because the administrative portion of your site is web based, you can edit or update your site anytime and anywhere an internet connection is available.

Open Source

Because the technology is open source, it is totally customizable. You can use virtually any kind of design imaginable in a content management system and, when you're done, you own the code. This site is running on a CMS platform and was built to showcase the power behind using CMS as a viable business solution. And there are somewhere around 41,000 templates available for use on your CMS that are also fully customizable.

A New Era

All of this spells a new way to do business on the internet. The website development cost are lower because what used to take months to build using antiquated methods now can take as little as a week! No longer does the owner of the website need to call or e-mail changes and updates to his local, highly paid webmaster. Business owners and corporations can, with a short learning curve, update and change website content and improve functionallity on their own. Even if you wanted to have someone else do the work, it will cost far less than it ever has because of the ease with which it can be done, and it can be done in far less time.

They Don't Want You to Know

Most creative agencies, web development and website design firms do not want you to know about any of this. It would certainly outdate their services and take a big bite out of their revenues. But we at Fossil Graphics embrace this emerging technology in our quest to provide unparalleled service to our clients. As CMS developers, ,we know that in order for any business to thrive, startup costs, overhead and maintenance have to be kept at a minimum. The real goal is to allow our clients to be successful with the services we provide. Please contact us with any questions about content management systems and how they can provide real, quantifiable results for your business. And check back often, as we will be continually adding content about the virtue of CMS as business solutions.