What features good CMS should provide ?

[delois]

Whether you are web designer or developer, awareness about key features of CMS is necessary before integrating it to your website or suggesting to your clients. Content management system has eliminated a need of spending time for designer or developer to create new pages and manage content of the website. It provides simple user interface to manage and add pages or content in website. Open source CMS has made CMS common by making it available free of charge. Working as web designer or developer, there are few things you must consider to check which I am writing below.

How it generates URl

Sometimes it is being ignored by web developer and when it comes to analyze with aspect to Seo modification require. Some CMS doesn’t provide dynamic to static rewriting by default which may get problems in easy indexing of website.

Flexibility in design of template

There would be same structure for the pages being generated from user inter face and as designer you should check whether it allow you good options for change.

Criteria for managing large content

Where there is a requirement of storing and managing large content which is going to divide in different categories and tags, it should provide different structure for storing and managing content.

Level of simplicity in programming custom database function

Most of the CMS provide basic database operation which may or may not suit to requirement. It should have facility to easily specify external database operation for website.

Suitability of CMS with aspect to SEO

Now implementing seo Meta tags and other changes are common requirement for website owners. CMS must provide plug-ins for specification.

How it manages deleted data and allows custom specification after deletion

Once any product or content get deleted, associate page should also get deleted and remove from database instead of firing some server error.
Facility to implement search functionality
In large websites, there should be search option which must provide accurate result.

Extra addons and available tools

Along with above requirement tools for hosting and efficient management which I haven’t written above should get added. When you have two option with same features as per above explanation, extra free tools would be the option to make difference between them.

[sunitha]

Considering features is an important part of the process of selecting a good CMS. It is also important to consider issues such as licensing, support, accessibility, security, training etc.

[wellm97]

When choosing any cms platform its important to look on its features and your requirements.

[lennonrowen]

Here I have listed some good features which must have on CMS.

Easy to User interface
Flexibility in integrating design templates as per your requirement
Easy management of the content and its back up
Loyal URL and Site architecture which can be shift or changed later in any needs..
Should have flexibility in defining Seo elements like meta tags, alt tags, automatic linking

[eswari]

There are many factors that CMS is used for. Most organizations that are looking into CMS are looking for a way to control their information. But CMS provides more than just information management and design Web development. Most of the CMS are opensource and easy to use it.

[getmused]

I use wordpress as cms for my blog, I hope there are better plugins to filter spammers.