10 a.m – Exercise: Trim CMS Development and Maintenance Costs. Before we begin, swim one lap around Lake WannaWebsite for every dollar you may save by switching from a site managed by a dedicated Web resource to a CMS-based site managed yourself. Just kidding; you'd be swimming until 2 a.m.
A main purpose of content management systems is to allow those who can use computers, but can't tell HTML from hexadecimals, to create, place and manage Website content with ease. With CMS tools, a programmer creates the site's structure—the headers, images, navigation bar, etc.—independent of each page's content. The content can then be easily filled in by the user via a publishing tool that's about as easy to use as MS Word.
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