CMS Website Design | Convert HTML to CMS Website Design

There are a lot of Myths surrounding CMS Website Design. It’s hard to put them in any real order since that’s more dependant on which ones you’ve heard recently, so I’ll cover them based on the frequency We hear them.

Let’s start with #10 and work our way to #1

#10. If you build it, they will come!
Hmm nope. A solid CMS Website Design is really the center of your “jumping off point” creating the base you can build your Marketing strategy to. It’s the Hub with everything else you do pointing back to it. All your comments on other Forums, Videos on YouTube, FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter are all tools that can push visitors To your Hub like spokes on a wheel. A dynamic cms design is the place to incorporate all your information into one place where you can easily manage it.

#9. Growth is Limited
In the past with hard to manage HTML designs that was very true. CMS Website Designs on the other hand are really ment to grow and expand by allowing for more content to be easily added, faster.

#8. CMS Designs are “Buggy”
That completely depends what cms system you use and who creates it for you. We’ve found WordPress to be the most developed and reliable open source system to base a cms design on. “Open Source” means it’s not owned by one single company forcing you into a predefined box that only They can develope. Open Source means 1000s of incredilby smart people can contribute to catching and fixing bugs quickly. WordPress has evolved this way for Years.

#7. CMS Designs can’t do eCommerce
Actually, this is where cms website designs really shine especially if you have frequently changing products/prices or have a lot of them. HTML designs ment editing Every single page you had a product on Just to change that one item. If you had items all over the place then you could easily spend $1000s just to change the price of ONE. With cms ecommerce designs in most cases you change it in 1 place and it then reflects that change on your whole website everywhere that item is shown instantly.

#6. CMS Design Styles are Limited
A cms website design can look like anything. They are not Forced into looking a specific way and many you’d never even know were cms. Your Bank, local realtor’s site, travel agent not to mention the big places like eBay and Google. CMS is a Function not a Style. The ONLY way to be sure is to look directly at the code sometimes.

#5. CMS Designs are Only for Blogs
Like #6 CMS is a Function not a Style. You are not forced to be or Look like a “Blog” BUT…. you do get all the Benefits because WordPress was originally created as a Blog system giving you every bit of the power to munipulate the search engines and bend them to your will.

#4. CMS Website Design takes longer to build
Actually, its Faster to build than HTML websites were because the coding is far cleaner and easier to work with making even complex projects move along faster.

#3. Long Term Maintenance & Upgrades
In the past HTML websites really needed to be rebuilt every couple years to keep up with current browser versions. Solid CMS Website Designs are built to code standards which keeps you from spending endless money to continually update your site to whatever that day’s browser version is.

#2. CMS Website Designs are complicated to Manage
Really the hole point of a content management system is to make your website Easily managed without HTML knowledge or programming skills. We tell clients “if you can write an eMail you can edit your website”

And #1 CMS Website Design Myth is

#1 CMS Website Design Costs more than HTML website designs
Some CMS Website Designers try very hard to make the design Process of a cms website sound mystical and complicated so they can charge you more for it but in reality it’s Easier than HTML sites were.

Most good Website Hosting companies include a “cPanel” and inside of your account’s cpanel is a program called Fantastico, this program will install WordPress in just a few clicks for you! Once WordPress is installed you can look around the internet for Free WordPress Themes. There are 10000s out there.

Good CMS Design firms are here for you when you need a Custom CMS Website Design for your WordPress. When you want to go beyond what free themes can do. Then it’s time to call us!