From the course: CMS Essential Training

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When is a CMS right for you?

When is a CMS right for you?

From the course: CMS Essential Training

When is a CMS right for you?

Before we get much further, I want to make the point that a CMS is not right for every project. Later on we'll talk about how to evaluate a CMS for your specific needs, but I think it's also just as important to discuss whether a CMS is the right solution for your needs. Once you begin researching content management systems, you're going to hear the same marketing points over and over again: first, that a CMS allows you to create a web site without having to know HTML, CSS, and server-side programming; second, that using a CMS reduces costs by eliminating outside technical work; and third, that a CMS will dramatically speed up development and deployment time. Well, like most marketing pitches, there is a degree of truth to all these points, but it's important to have the proper expectations about how a CMS will fit into your organization or your projects. If you're a designer or part of a design team and you're looking at using a CMS to speed up site development, there are some things…

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