Easy Web Editing With a Content Management System

Back in the old days of the Internet regular websites cost a small fortune and with the advent of editing software the floodgates of instant web designers flew open. This can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing: Designers wish their designs would stay as they created them, their clients wish they could save money by editing their website themselves. Now enter the era of the happy medium – the age of the Content Management System.

What is a Content Management System?
A Content Management System, or CMS for short, is software that runs on your web host’s server that allows content [images, text, video e.t.c.] to be added with ease. By separating the content side from the coding side the structure of the site is never compromised thus delivering up a happy web designer; while the content is easy to add and remove without needing a web design degree, so happy clients abound.

There are a lot of CMSs out there and so you can actually dabble in their use quite easily. Over the years a few standouts have held their own and carved a position out for themselves as reputable, scalable products. Joomla and Drupal are great choices but the learning curve for non-developers is steep. (more…)

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How to Write An Article For Your Website

Article and content writing for your website is important because it is a guaranteed way to get better search engine rankings. Update your website frequently with fresh, original, captivating content that is more than just a couple of paragraphs long, and you will be the recipient of some pretty impressive Google love in a short amount of time.

Whether you need to write an article, paper or book you need to start with an outline – it’s your plan of action. You need more than just an outline though; you need a good outline – one that has ample points so that you can write enough about your subject.

Keep this in mind when you think about how to write an article for the web: The delivery of the written word on a web page needs to be very different to that of a printed page because most people reading web pages scan them to see if the content is relevant to them.

So when writing an article for your website think about how you can make your visitors’ reading time as easy as possible, so they read more, get interested, bookmark your web page and come back again.

Think quality. Write quality articles. (more…)

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