Why rent a Content Management System? - Be careful out there!

Posted on February 2009 in Articles

I’ve just but the phone down on some enquiring about a Content Management System. They paid a great deal of money to have a website built to maintain their properties which they rent out. The website wasn’t fantastic, but it did function ok. The main surprise from the conversation was they were paying £100 per month to use a CMS system, which by the sound of it wasn’t the right CMS for the job.

The idea of a CMS is so you don’t have to keep going back the website design company to make changes, so paying £100 per month to use a CMS doesn’t seem right. Why bother? Why not just pay a web company £100 per month and get them to do it?

Maintenance contracts are a great idea, but paying £100 without any ‘maintenance’ isn’t right.

The idea of CMS is to make updates to your site, simple and inexpensive, so be careful who you approach.