What is a Content Management System?

To truly use the web effectively businesses must adopt CMS.

A web content management system (CMS) is a software program / application used to manage the content of a website. A CMS allows the content manager or author of the website, who may not know HTML the programming language used for the web, to create, modify, remove and organise the information and pictures on their website.

Web CMS's (Content Management Systems) are a must-have for all businesses that take their web presence seriously. A CMS will basically allow you to manage and publish your content more efficiently within your organisation. The bad news? Most of these systems are extremely cumbersome and expensive... The good news? We're here to change all that.

The most common question site owners ask is “how can I update the content of my website?”

Conventional websites reside on a web server usually located in a hosting facility. Those sites are usually managed by a webmaster either in-house or from the web design agency that produced the site.

Now each time you need to have changes on your site, such as changing telephone numbers or adding a new service section, provided that you have sufficient knowledge about HTML and other web related issues you will need to make all the changes required off-line and then ftp all to the web server, or you will need send your request to professionals who will do the changes but usually not right away and at a cost.

No expertise needed to manage your site

The purpose of a web content management system such as MetaCanvas™  is to provide site owners with a tool that will allow them to be in full control of their website and update it when ever required from any computer connected to the Internet.

A MetaCanvas™  driven website gives the site owner all the flexibility needed to have the most attractive and updated site around.

MetaCanvas™  driven site owners just need to enter their user name and password in the login page of MetaCanvas™  and press enter. A full site administration page loads showing site statistics and all the tools available to manage the site. The site manager can from this interface control everything available on the site as well as the users allowed to edit and co-operate in the content of the site.

No special skills are required to manage a MetaCanvas™  driven site since editing the site is as simple as typing a document and saving to the web just by pressing the save button. Any change is instantly available on your website without having to know ftp or any other file transfer protocols.