Content Management System or CMS

for short is a valuable commodity for websites, a quality CMS provides an intuitive interface for ease of use by the client. CMS's empower clients to edit their own content (images and text and pretty much anything on their website).

Today is an amazing time for CMS's because there are many free - yes I said FREE CMS's that are more robust, secure and flexible than most custom built CMS's by any local or national company. Check your CMS to see if it is a Freebee or a custom made CMS... if it's a freebee - then you may want to ask yourself a few questions! Like: am I paying my Website company annually for a CMS that cost them nothing? That's just one of the big questions to ask yourself! Do I have your attention now? :)

But First, lets check to see if your CMS is a freebee - the best way to check it is to go to your backend logon administration screen. Why go there you ask? Well, because these CMS are free and highly flexible - which means that any Web Design company that knows what they are doing, knows that they can augment most of the freebee CMS to make it look like it's a custom built CMS - haha, the trick is on the client - not very funny in my books... I find most people appreciate integrity! So, are you at the backend logon screen? If your site is a Joomla CMS - it will be something like www.yoursite.com/administrator - once you are there, there is a handy tool in a web browser (it's found in different spots for different browsers) that can check the source code of your logon page... if somewhere your source code says anything like - Joomla, or Drupal, or Wordpress - those are the most widely used ones - then you know that you have a freebee CMS... now for the questions!