Content management systems have been around for a while, however, they have just recently in the last few years, come into their own in terms of ease of use and stability. From proprietary to open source systems, you might be wondering how to choose a content management system that fits your needs and can grow with your business or company. From Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Advertising to Specific Functionalities such as Ecommerce, Request a Quote Carts, etc., you have quite a few options to choose from.

CMS's and internet marketing: streamlined and efficient

Today's modern Open Source CMS systems (Joomla!®, Drupal, WordPress, etc.) have many features which impact the efficiency and management of online marketing efforts.

From visitor tracking to SEO, open source allows for extensions to be built by users that enhance the CMS platform. These extensions can add Search Marketing functions; add an easy to maintain image gallery, or anything that a website owner might need. Having an Open Source community, building extensions saves time, money and resources, allowing for website owners to concentrate on the content instead of the technical aspects of web development.

Clicked Solutions only uses Open Source, non-proprietary CMS's

All of our web site designs are built with Open Source Solutions. With Open Source, we are able to connect with a very large development community and keep the costs down for our clients. We are trying to make you money and grow your business or company, we see no reason to nickel and dime our clients with monthly website agreements and yearly payments to keep your website hostage with unnecessary services. After Clicked Solutions builds a website for you, its 100% yours to do with as you please.

Top Reasons: Why we use Open Source content management systems (CMS).

• It's free! You only pay for the website design, development, content population and configuration.
• Extremely useful for Internet Marketing – Open Source CMS’s allow for total access to modify the source code and template files for SEO and PPC purposes.
• Your own development community: Modx, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc. all have massive user communities.
• Unlimited expansion: Open Source offers almost an unlimited amount of add-on extensions, components, themes and modules.
• Open Source is user friendly and easy to use.
• Open Source has no yearly, monthly or recurring fees.
• Open Source allows for specific user privileges and access configuration options.

Top Reasons: Why Clicked Solutions does not suggest any Proprietary Content Management Systems.

• You may pay monthly and/or yearly fees, with even additional fees.
• The website is not yours, including the data on the website. Proprietary CMS's require licensing restrictions that prevent you from owning your site.
• You are at the mercy of the company that owns the software.
• You cannot modify the source code and the functionality without paying a large amount of money to the proprietary CMS publisher. Modification still might not ever happen due to the fact that they have other clients on the same CMS.
• More than half of all companies out there will charge an extra cost to get a database backup of your Ecommerce store or online catalog. The other half will not provide that information.
• Cancellation Fee's for the CMS software.
• You cannot outsource design work on their platform; you are stuck with their design teams or templates.
• Over priced hosting: you have no choice in where you are going to host your website, its their website.
• And many more reasons...

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