This article applies only to Drupal since that is the only CMS I have had experience with.

You Don’t Know What Is There

The biggest difference is that you know everything that is there because you put it there. With a CMS you start with web site already completed and adopt it to your application. You have this huge amount of code and only the person who wrote it in the first place knows why it is there.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. So an SEO would be a person or firm that works to get your website higher rankings in the search engines. This can have great value if yours is an ecommerce web site. sometimes these firms charge quite a bit for their services.

A blog is a web journal or log, which is updated regularly. It comes from the term web log. Blogs are made from special software such as Drupal or Wordpress. This software will give each entry a date and create a “teaser” that is linked to the rest of the article. A teaser is just a few lines to interest people to read the article. Usually this will be the first few lines of the article. These teasers are kept on the front page of the blog while the articles are stored elsewhere on the blog.

Readers on the web scan rather read. They are trying to gather as much information as fast as possible. This is because of the large amount of information out there. Anything searched for will yield several pages of results and many look inviting. The result of this is that anyone who gets to your page through a search engine also has several other pages they want to read also.

Remember when you are writing to put some substance into your writing. Pick a topic and say at least one concrete thing. When you are finished, ask yourself what is that one thing? It is better to accomplish just one little small thing than nothing, especially when that nothing takes a whole page. I am so disgusted when I read a blog posting only to find it without substance everywhere except in the title. They may have gotten me to read it that time but it usually comes off my list of blogs that I read. The important thing to take away from this is that the only real gains are long term.

Drupal CMS is perfect for groups, clubs or organizations because I can set it very reasonably (starting at $99) and group members can update their own portions of the website periodically. Drupal CMS provides configurable user profiles so each club member can have different authorities to update different parts of the website. This is a great way for groups to have a current up to date website with very little cost.
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A content management system (CMS) is a software package, which is written for a group of users to create content for at web site. This could be a community of users sharing information about a common topic. A CMS typically would contain a forum, a blog and articles. It would also contain databases to track users and their profiles. These profiles would contain information about users and what authority each had to make updates to the website. Content management systems are for creating communities of users. Drupal is the foremost CMS.

The Internet is a network of millions of computers around the world connected to each other by phone lines, fiber optic lines, coaxial cable, satellites, and wireless connections. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) connects to this network and allows using their connection. ISP’s provide Internet service to your home or office allowing your computer to connect to the Internet.

Every program that runs on your computer slows it down. Google Docs runs on their website, you don’t have to install anything, and is free. Every document has a date displayed and is searchable and can be stored in its own easy to find folder. The biggest plus is that you can access your documents from any computer even from a client’s computer in their office. Google Docs may also be shared by people in different cities and worked on at the same time by committees in several different cities.