Building your web-site can be a time consuming process, various software applications can help, but if you expect your web-site to be large and/or expect to be doing a lot of updating to it then maybe you should consider a content management system.
Content management systems or software are applications designed to help you manage and maintain the content that makes up your web-site. Content management systems generally split up the tasks of displaying your web-site into three major categories; Content, Design, and Business Logic. When you split up these three items you can really accelerate your development process.
Design Once
Using content management software you can power you entire web-site using a single design template, this will guarantee professionalism and consistency. Designing only one template saves time, too.
Business Logic Modules
Most advanced content management applications have pre-built extension modules that allow you to extend the capabilities of your content management system. Take Odin Organic Framework (OOF), a cost effective web-based content management system, OOF can be extended using over 45 different modules.
Focus On Content
Since the software can handle the design and business logic, you can focus on the meat of your web-site, content. Many content management systems like OOF offers easy to use web-based tools, so you can edit anywhere, OOF even offers web-based spell checking!
Another strong point of CMS is being database driven/dynamic you can slice and dice your "data" to display it many different ways, OOF lets you take the same data and render RSS/RDF and PDF just to name a few formats!
In closing, if you expect your web-site to be large or require numerous updates, then content management software may just be for you. In cases such as these, content management systems offers strong ROI. Consider Odin Organic Framework, a cost effective web-based content management system.
About Odin Organic Framework
Odin Organic Framework is an ASP hosted web-based content management system. For more information visit http://www.organicframework.com. Odin Organic Framework is developed by Odin Metatech, Inc.
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Sam Estrin is the CEO of Odin Metatech, Inc. Odin Metatech, Inc is a three year old Santa Monica, Ca based technology consultancy.
Related Urls: http://www.odinmetatech.com / http://www.organicframework.com
