The Savvy CIO

We develop, customize, build, integrate and host web applications and web sites, and we do it almost exclusively on open source software.

Why open source?

There are several reasons, but here’s a big one:

Open source saves you money.

That’s you, the client. Open source saves you money. read more »

How can you get the most from a content management system?

To start, be aware that content management can mean two very different things:

A content management system is software that allows non-technical users to update a website.

-OR-

A content management system is software that stores, organizes and controls access to company documents, files and information.

To my knowledge, no single piece of software does both of these things. At least not well. These are two different pieces of software solving different problems that (unfortunately) share the same name.

A document-focused CMS will be covered in the next post. Today we’ll focus on CMS for a company website. So to ask our question more specifically,

How can you get the most from a website content management system?

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