Choosing the Right Content Management System
There's a lot to consider when weighing up your Content
Management System (CMS) options. If you consider the following on
your checklist then you'll be off to a great start:
- Core Functionality - What are the core things
you need to do with your CMS?
- The Editor - WYSIWYG is one thing but is too
much flexibility a good thing or a bad thing?
- Managing Assets - Does it do more than just
add docs and images - can you crop, rotate, resize, add
descriptions and more?
- Search - The freshness, thoroughness, speed,
scope, ranking and customisation of search results are often
critical success factors to consider.
- Customisation - How easy will it be to deviate
outside a standard set of templates?
- User Interaction - How will it enable you to
segment, target and communicate to different types of users?
- Roles & Permissions - Who should be able
to add, edit, delete and publish your content to your
audience?
- Versioning - Will you be able to rollback to a
previous version of the site if the need arises?
- Multiple Domains - Do you need to and will you
be able to manage one or multiple sites from the same
place?
- Multilingual - Do you think you may need to
support more than one language now (or in the future). Best to make
sure your CMS does too.
If you know the answer to these questions it will make your
choice of product that much easier and hopefully simplify
uncertainty around Commercial or Open Source, Basic CMS or
Enterprise CMS (like Sitecore). Either way, we're here to help you
make the right decision so feel free to drop us a line to discuss.
Source: Smashing Magazine
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Reference: Sitecore Vs. Umbraco