We have several examples of CMS constructs for different functions. A Content Management System is a pre-built construct for a website, that is built to be customized and personalized to fit any website need.

The befits CMS are:

• Self Administration and Updates to the website
  Articles are editable through built in interface with no coding required, with new articles being posted through a user-friendly administrative back-end.
• Multiple User Accounts
• User and Permissions management
• Front-end Registered User Areas
• Per-article statistic gathering

Here are several examples of CMS constructs, each serving a unique purpose.

Word-press
This is a blogging system designed for ease of use. You can have multiple contributors to your blog and manage posting by date, subject, and author. This style of CMS's article manager allowing readers to sort posts by date, surfing backwards reading past entries.

Because Wordpress is an open source project, add-ons are available to modify Wordpress for web-comics and video blogging plus much more.

phpBB - Website Forums
An user interactive CMS that can be readable by the public or available to a company or group members only. A website forum offer an excellent medium for discussion on many topics, and have become a staple for user support on the internet.

Management is necessary on a forum, with some users promoted to manage content and remove problem users. The public would be able to register accounts to post, with different permissions and functions being offered for management of content and spam.

Os-commerce and other E Commerce Solutions
These CMS offer total online internet commerce functionality including shopping carts, inventory management, back-end update and management, specials and promotions,  connectivity to an existing merchant account, and the ability to receive orders online 24 hours a day.

Joomla, Drupal, Simple CMS, and other CMS
These are full featured CMS with information divided into sections and then sub-categories allowing for different users control over different sections of the website. These constructs are extremely flexible, with Joomla being the best supported and most actively developed CMS available.

As open source software these CMS offer flexibility by having an extremely large library of add-ons available for most functionality needs. Photo gallery's and additional advertising are simply added through the back-end administrative interface, designed to be very user intuitive.

McMasterTek has built this website on Joomla.

Development costs for CMS are varied depending on construct, amount of content, and design.

Read more about our development packages and costs.