If you feel that your website’s content management system (CMS) is holding your business back, it may be time to switch to a new platform. It’s a daunting task, but we’re here to help. SearchWorks has a veteran team of web development and design professionals who can migrate your website to a new CMS and bring your business concepts to life online.
A CMS is a software application that handles the publication of content on the web. In the early days of the Internet, every page in a website needed to be manually coded and uploaded by web developers. As you can imagine, the process was very tedious and time-consuming. It also kept non-coders from publishing content on their own, creating a bottleneck for most companies’ tech teams.
CMS platforms help business owners circumvent these inefficiencies by providing content creators and developers alike an online application that automatically performs much of the coding work using a non-technical user interface that can be learned by people who don’t necessarily code. Most modern CMS platforms look more like user-friendly desktop publishing applications, allowing writers, editors, artists and marketers to wield direct control over the content they create.
Today, there are dozens of CMS choices for website owners to choose from. Some are designed for simple operations such as blogging, while other more complex ones can be used to run ecommerce websites and SaaS businesses. Some CMS platforms are free and open source such as WordPress and Magento, while others will have to be licensed and paid for. Still, other organizations like building their own CMS platforms in-house to make sure it’s tailor-fitted to their needs.
A CMS change may be considered by a website owner when one or more of the following issues arise:
Most of the time, CMS migrations are arduous processes that need to be considered several times before a decision is made. A platform change does not only involve a lot of time, financial resources and manpower, but it can also be disruptive to a website’s operations. As such, SearchWorks only recommends CMS migrations as a last resort to overcome the above mentioned issues.
If all potential remedies to the current website have been exhausted and the decision to switch to a new platform has been reached, we encourage clients to choose their next CMS based on the following qualifications:
If you’ve decided on your top priorities as far as the CMS’ qualities are concerned, you can start looking at specific platforms for a deeper comparison.
There’s a multitude of possible choices when searching for a new CMS for your website but you can only have one. The following are the most commonly used platforms that we see with our clients:
After deciding that you want to change your CMS and migrate to a new platform, you can call SearchWorks and enlist our expertise in executing the transition for you. If you choose us for the job, you can expect us to take the following steps when performing your CMS migration:
Please note that these steps may be modified in actual projects as needed and as agreed upon by SearchWorks and its clients.