What is a CMS

What is a CMS

Surely on some occasion you have heard or spoken of the term CMS, and yet you have not known for sure what it meant. When you make the decision to set up an eCommerce, this term is very present in most conversations. But what is a CMS?

If you still have doubts about what it represents, you do not know what they are for, nor its characteristics or advantages compared to other technologies, it is time you start to understand everything. And, for that reason, next we are going to talk to you about what is a CMS and everything related to this that you should know.

What is a CMS

What is a CMS

For starters, a CMS stands for "Content Management System", which in Spanish is interpreted as a «content management system». And what is it for? Well, these, as you can imagine, are a tool for create a website, administer it and manage everything that is inside it. In other words, we are talking about a system that is responsible for building a web page that you can manage, sometimes without having to know programming.

Many people use CMS to create their websites, where it is not only used for a "normal" web page, but also for a blog, an eCommerce, etc. In general, for any page that requires constant updates, these tools are the most successful. That is why you can find different types of CMS, depending on the page: there are for blogs, for corporate pages, for eCommerces, for multimedia content ... The most important would be:

  • WordPress.
  • Joomla.
  • PrestaShop.
  • Magento.
  • Drupal.

How CMS Work

Now that you know what CMS are, it's time for you to understand how they work. And the best thing is to give you an example. Imagine that you have to create a web page of books. As you launch a new book on the market, you have to create your web page and that takes time because you have to create the HTML structure, verify that it works, integrate it with the entire page, put the relevant links in the main one ... Come on, it can take an hour As minimum. But what about CMS? Well, it would be a matter of five minutes because it saves you all that process of creating the page from scratch, because he is already in charge of programming that structure. You just have to tell him what content that page should have, the url and photos and that's it.

As a user, You don't have to worry about the technical part, because the CMS takes care of that; which gives you more time to focus on the database, the content and the strategy to make the web visible.

What characteristics do they have

Based on all of the above, CMS can be characterized by:

  • Be able to create web pages and subpages within them.
  • Edit texts and codes of the website to manage it.
  • Moderate comments.
  • Install plugins that increase the functions of the site (for example, in the case of WordPress, with Woocommerce, you can easily build an eCommerce).
  • Ease of learning to use it. At first it imposes a bit, but then you realize that it is very intuitive, and easy to use, which allows anyone to manage it.
  • Low resource consumption. Not only because it will cost you less and it will save time, but also because the hosting server will use less resources and that will make your memory, CPU and hard disk not be so fair, showing your website faster.

What CMS is better for an eCommerce?

And we have reached the question that, without a doubt, you can be asking yourself right now. What is the best CMS for an eCommerce? The truth is that the answer is quite complex.

If we look at content management systems focused on online stores, we should certainly tell you that you would be between Prestashop, WordPress + WooCommerce and Magento. These three are the ones that dominate the eCommerce market, and of all of them, perhaps Prestashop is the one that is succeeding the most. But WordPress is on its heels more and more. And, just by installing a plugin, you already have an online store with all the features of the content management system. And it is quite easy to work with it.

So which one is the best? We analyze them.

Prestashop interface

Prestashop interface

Prestashop is one of the CMS that is focused exclusively on electronic commerce, that is, it is based on creating websites for online stores, eCommerces, etc.

To do this, it establishes a basic structure that is common to all, but gives you the tools to install plugins or modules, as well as templates, that customize the site based on what you want to sell and how to offer the shopping experience to customers.

Technically it is difficult to use, especially at the beginning. It requires some knowledge of the CMS, something that not many know, hence many opportunities to handle it 100% are lost. But it is not difficult to learn, it just takes time to do it.

WordPress CMS with Woocommerce

WordPress CMS with Woocommerce

WordPress, to dry, is today the most used content manager because it is very easy to use and, thanks to the plugins and the thousands of templates (free and paid) that exist, it is very easy to customize and adapt according to the needs that one has.

Before, it was focused on web pages and blogs, but with the appearance of the Woocommerce plugin, there was a revolution. And you could use WordPress as if it were also an online store. That implied that you could continue to use an easy-to-manage site and, by expanding its functionality, continue to benefit from that simplicity.

The only downside we can put is that often, the Woocommerce plugin is complicated to install, especially in terms of putting the products, and shipping data, expenses, etc. That can be messy. But there are many tutorials on the Internet that can help you solve the problem, and being so intuitive, it is learned quite quickly to handle it, something that, sometimes, in PrestaShop it takes more time to achieve it.

Now that you know what a CMS is, and that you know what they mean by that term, if you are thinking of creating a web page, whatever it is, you will be able to know which one is the best for you based on your knowledge of technology, programming, use ...


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