It’s important that your company takes the time needed to choose a content management system, or CMS for short, that is right for your business. Your company’s CMS is a bit like the engine of a car. It’s what you use to create pages and manage them, and it controls the dashboard. There are many different content management systems to choose from. In this article, we’re going to discuss some of the most popular and widely used content management systems.

What should our business consider when choosing a CMS for our company?
Simple to use:

You will need a CMS that’s simple to use, so for example, when your company wants to add a new blog post / news article, that you can do this in a matter of a few minutes and simply. Some content management systems make this process difficult, so make sure you use a CMS that’s simple to use, when adding new pages or perhaps a new blog post.

Widely used:

We would recommend using a widely used CMS, like Magento, WordPress or Drupal.

You can update:

Choose a CMS that with just a click, you can update it.
You can make back-ups

Choose a CMS where you can make back-ups.

Great looking website offering a good U.X can be designed using this CMS:

Choose a CMS where you

Things to consider when choosing a CMS for your business:

You find it super simple to use

There’s no point in choosing a content management system that you find difficult to use. That’s because most businesses often have to add blog posts, update plugins, and make regular backups of the CMS. You don’t want to log into the admin area and find that it’s super difficult to use, and you have to phone your web designers every time you want to make a simple change, such as adding a new blog post.

So, what you should look for when choosing a content management system for your business:

– Simple to use
– Widely used, so you can also find a web developer who has experience designing websites using that CMS
– That you can make back-ups yourself, so if the website does go down, you can restore a backup

Popular CMS Options

WordPress

There is a massive number of businesses right around the globe that have chosen WordPress as their CMS. In fact, WordPress is used by quite literally millions of businesses globally. Many different businesses use WordPress, from PLC, massive household names, to people running personal blogs about their hobbies and interests.

Therefore, you could have a multi-billion-pound brand that has chosen WordPress for their leading site, right through to a runner who blogs about their running adventures across the United Kingdom.

Here at this web design business, we would say that most of our websites, which our web designers, web developers and SEO consultants work on, are WordPress websites.

Drupal

Drupal is another very popular content management system. It’s an open-source CMS that is widely used by many well-known companies, such as Tesla and NASA.

Magento CMS

A lot of businesses right around the globe use Magento. It’s a brilliant e-commerce platform, and it’s used by giant multinational companies and smaller businesses as well. It’s a brilliant e-commerce content management system.
How to make the right decision

Your business should most definitely take its time to choose the suitable CMS. We have worked with many companies that need help with their search engine optimisation and, therefore, have their websites designed by other companies. Sometimes, the CMS is built by that individual web design agency, and it can sometimes be difficult to use, full of glitches, and may cause the business many problems.

Therefore, don’t rush into choosing a CMS. Our best advice is to use a content management system that’s widely used, used by millions of businesses. The reason we say that is simply because if it’s one of the world’s most commonly used content management systems, like

WordPress, then it’s widely used because it’s perfect and brilliant at what it does.

We can help your business.

Whether you’re starting an e-commerce company or a local coffee shop, we can design an amazing website for your business. We mostly build quality WordPress websites, yet if you would like a website built using Magento or perhaps Drupal, then we can help.