Why Use a Content Management System?
Before the Internet, content management systems were used throughout industry as a form of version control for internal documentation. A company’s IT department would install this software on the PCs of those employees who would control and maintain important documents, and the software would manage version changes, control who and when a document was “checked out” for modification, and properly and safely storing those documents. After the Internet was born, webmasters who ran large websites with multiple writers discovered that they had needs that the content management systems could provide. Webmasters required multiple documents, or HTML files and scripting, to be controlled and maintained with appropriate versioning. But most importantly, the website writers required an interface that would allow them to edit those HTML “documents” without the need to write the actual background code itself. Additionally, if one writer was editing a particular page, other writers should not be all
Content management makes your site easy to maintain and update. Without it, you’re back to the process of having to edit each page using an HTML editor. This requires technical expertise (ongoing expense!) and it’s hard to make major changes, such as fundamentally changing the look of your entire site.
