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Web development in Scotland – choosing a CMS
You can shell out good cash and buy a CMS – not a bad idea but often Open Source CMS packages are a better deal. Maintained by legions of dedicated coders they can offer better support in some cases than commercially available packages.
Some CMS packages are tailored toward specific target markets – photographers for example. However it better to choose a more open and generic CMS as it is almost bound to have a richer feature set and will therefore be better when it comes to web development.
Web development in Scotland – step 1: get a CMS
CMS or Content Management Systems allow you to develop and maintain websites in a much more easy way than hacking around inside pages and pages of html. However, not all CMS packages are the same. To get the most out of any CMS package you will need some basic HTML coding skills and some CMS’s are better than others than providing this. So shop around and seek opinion. Make sure you can edit Metadata including image tag and description metadata. Almost all web developers will use a preferred CMS or work with a couple.
