Content Management System of Choice – SohoLaunch
First and foremost… what is a content management system?
A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors. For example, the software for the website Wikipedia is based on a wiki, which is a particular type of content management system. For the purposes of this page, Content Management means Web Content Management. Other related forms of content management are listed below.
The content managed includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies use a CMS to share files with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability. As shown below, many Content Management Systems include a feature for Web Content, and some have a feature for a “workflow process.”
“Work flow” is the idea of moving an electronic document along for either approval, or for adding content. Some Content Management Systems will easily facilitate this process with email notification, and automated routing. This is ideally a collaborative creation of documents. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources.
A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.
Excerpt taken from Wikipedia
Why is this important you might ask??? For starters a CMS system will allow you the ability to update your website with relative ease without having the overhead expense of having to call your web designer every time you want to update content… prodominately text and images. There are many benefits, but on the top of the list is cost and time savings. For every minor edit you will no longer have to call a designer to update text, build a form, or upload new images… plus you can save time because you can do it in-house. I’ve set-up this system for just about 10 sites now and they all have had great success in utilizing the system. I’ve worked with Soholaunch’s programming team to develop a custom system for ProfilesofShips.com and can honestly say that they are a great bunch to work with. Honest, Sincere and they take great pride in their programming. I’ve worked with Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, TYPO3 as well as Xoops and have found that SohoLaunch has the best overall features and is easy to create a dynamic, functional and beatifully themed website.
SohoLaunch’s Goals
The goal of Soholaunch is to provide a comprehensive set of tools (in one toolbox) that work together to help people at every level of experience build a better website, faster. We want Soholaunch to be your do-it-all wonder tool for building a website.
Soholaunch is designed to help all different kinds of people build all different kinds of websites. If you have no experience whatsover building websites, you can build a great site with Soholaunch — no HTML knowledge required. Or, if you do have experience, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to use your skills to great effect.
Cost: $249.00 (as of 10/29/2010)
If your looking to move your site to a more functional CMS system that can handle membership(s), e-commerce, forms, blogging, SEO, photo albums etc…. and still be user frienldy… then I would recommend that you check out SohoLaunch. Also, if you host through 92west.com we can install the Professional Version of the software for *free of charge. The professional version will stay active for 15 days, but you can purchase the full version for $249 (as of 10/29/2010) or pay a monthly fee of $20.00. It’s worth it either way.
*Should you decide to transfer your site to a different server outside of 92 West you may have to purchase a full license from SohoLaunch. Details subject to change without notice.
