My corner of this blog, Below the Fold, is for web designers about issues they have told us are critical to their business. I am keeping a running list and invite you to add to it right here. This first post is about whether clients really need full content management systems (CMS). Do clients need more than simple text editing? Is the cost and complication of building or buying and then customizing a CMS necessary? Are clients’ needs today just the tip of the iceberg for what they will need next year?
In this video, Michael Slater, CEO of Webvanta, explains why you should consider using a web cms or website content management system for your next website design project. Key reasons to use a web cms include rich built-in features such as blogs, calendars and photo galleries; ease of updating content; extensibility; and the ability to automate page creation.
Once you have your site coded, you need to choose how those coded web pages are going to be delivered. The first fork in the road is to choose between static web site and a content management system (CMS).
During the past few days, there has been another batch of WordPress sites getting hacked, this time with malicious code that redirects visitors to the site to a fake virus scan page, which then tries to get the user to download an "anti-virus" program that is, in fact, a virus.