Differences between a CMS and a custom built Website
Recently when a company needed a website a graphic designer and a programmer in HTML and CSS builded the website page to page. This changed a few years ago with the emergence of the CMS.
Both a CMS as a custom built Website share one thing in common, both systems have an
administration, a rear part where an administrator modifies the content
displayed on the front. In this administration also edit content, the administrator can delete, modify or duplicate items. These systems are called self-managed websites because a user without much knowledge can manage the content of a website.
To build a self-manageable web there are two possibilities, with a CMS or custom built.
CMS are pre-built systems that are valid for any general purpose site. Being a general purpose site, the administrator level has to be a little high to edit the content. CMS can be valid for a site like
a newspaper or for an online store, the structure and content should be different as the work of the administrator.
The custom built website
focuses management for the data structure that depends on the
content, ie, the administration will be different depending on whether
the site is a newspaper or a shop. For example, adding a product to store the system will ask the price of
the product, in an article in a newspaper the system will ask for the name of the
author. So, in the custom built website, the system asks with a form, all the particular data, and the level of the administrator can be low. He just need to full forms.
Comparisons of a CMS and a custom built Website
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CMS |
Custom built
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Deploying time
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one whole site can be made in one month
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one whole site can be made in two / three months |
Admin level
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high, better with knowledge of HTML |
very low, just full forms
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Setup complexity
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installing a CMS requires minimal knowledge of Mysql and PHP
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the developer is responsible for the installation of the site
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| Price |
1500 euros euros depending of its complexity
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4000 euros aprox depending of its complexity
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Ease of use
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a little bit complex and limited in growth
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easy and unlimited in growth
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| Adaptability to content |
sometimes the CMS can not be adapted to the required content, the content must be very standard |
a custom built site can be adapted to the content at a detail level, for example, if an online shop the software can calculate the shipping of the item by its weight |
| Google and Web standards (W3C) |
the CMS are not W3C compliants, and are not very well indexed by Google |
the advantage of custom built websites is that programming can be done to respect the standards and is compatible with Google |
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