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Content Management Overview and Benefits

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is an integrated interface that helps you to easily manage all the content on your website.

Current and correct information is very important for a successful business and website. A CMS gives you immediate control of the site content, instead of waiting for a third party to make your changes, which can increase risk of delays and mistakes.

Our content management system implementations are extremely powerful and flexible, yet intuitive and easy to use.

Key Concepts

Embedding Video

You can upload video to your web site or use services like YouTube or Vimeo. There are lots of other video sharing services out there if you want to try them.

How To Use Keywords Effectively

UPDATE MAR 2010 - Since writing this things have changed regarding keywords and how they get used by search engines. Due to the amount of abuse, keywords really have no relevance to the search engines anymore. So at this point my recommendation is use keywords for your own site's categorization of content. You should not expect to improve search ranking or seo at all by using keywords in the meta tags.

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A keyword or phrase is nothing more than a category term that succinctly describes your content using single words or a two word phrase. Keywords help make searching for content more effective.

For example if you write an article about how to make a jalapeño pepper sauce then a good set of keywords are: "peppers", "hot sauce" and "jalapeño".

Amazingly keywords continue to be misused and abused. Not knowing how to use keywords can lead to poor search engine raking. Here are a few simple tips to consider.

How to Embed Flash Valid XHTML

Here is what I do to cleanly embed a Flash video into XHTML page.

General Guidelines for Your Website

Keep these guidelines in mind as you plan your website's layout and content.

"Content is King"

This is not just a clever saying. It is critical if you want a successful and effective website. Your site will be one of many millions, and people get distracted easily and quickly. Keep them interested with fresh and entertaining content regularly. If you let the content go stale, then people will leave and may never return. Additionally, you must keep the content relevant to the overall mission of your site. For instance, don't waste time on cookie recipes if you are trying to sell vintage floppy disks.