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Using Web Content Management Systems to Create a Digital Experience for Your Business.

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David Jones
Using Web Content Management Systems to Create a Digital Experience for Your Business.

CMS, technically known as a WCMS for Web Content Management System, functions to construct, host, manage and edit web pages. In the case of a CMS, the online user experience isn't identical, displaying the same information and message to each visitor. Instead, a Web Experience Platform brings a completely different online experience to each visitor depending on a host of complex data that is managed via the Content Management System. For example, consider the following scenario: you are selling shoes on Amazon's website. Instead of displaying an endless list of items on the sidebar, you would display only the shoes.

This is accomplished using Amazon's web experiences. Your Web Experience Platform can be comprised of anything from simple interfaces to highly customized platforms. All these things are stored in the Content Repository. This repository includes all your customer data, including product descriptions, price quotes, reviews, and photos. All this information is stored in the Content Repository, so it's very easy to access and change.

Amazon's web experience platform.

The ability to use Amazon's web experience platform is also ideal for content management websites. For instance, if you manage several individual websites that all link to a single storefront, you wouldn't have the ability to update all of those individual websites without changing the entire web experience. With the Content Repository, all websites are updated in one easy-to-access area. Your websites are constantly up-to-date with no need to maintain each website separately.

Most importantly, web experience platforms allow you to provide the same seamless shopping experience to every customer in different ways. In other words, you're not locked into any specific design. You can update each website without having to change anything else on the rest of the website. If you update one website, everything on that website will automatically update for the rest of the customers who have purchased through that portal.

Usage of  WYSIWYG editor.

Most web experience platforms contain widgets, a WYSIWYG editor, which lets you easily add new content, edit existing content, manage menus, and edit web sections. A WYSIWYG editor would let you convert PSD files to HTML code. It would let you add new widgets such as columns, sidebars, side panels, buttons, and input fields. A content management system provides a wide array of user interface controls, which could be edited by a user using a standard text editor. This is why web content management systems are such an integral part of your eCommerce business.

Aside from all the great things you can do with your web experience platform, there are also some downsides to using these platforms as well. These platforms are not well supported by every browser, meaning that your website may not open in certain web browsers. Furthermore, web experience platforms usually lack security. If an administrator of a web store updates their website, changes or hacks occur, this could potentially lead to massive losses for the company. Most importantly, if an administrator of a web store ever deletes a product, the web-store will need to be redesigned and this could take months.

Advantages between web content management system and web experience platform.

The advantages of using a web content management system, as compared to a web experience platform, include several unique features such as: being able to make changes to web pages, view other people's websites, create, edit, and upload images, videos, and podcasts, have multiple stores, have more SEO power, and have full compatibility with most browser types. This ability to work with many different devices is what sets web experiences and web content management systems apart from each other. A web content management system can integrate with email servers, sales systems, appointment book services, customer relationship management software, and even social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition, a web content management system can provide the ability to post to multiple forums, blogs, and review sites at one time.

Many web content management systems can be operated using Microsoft Office programs like Microsoft Outlook and can also be operated on Apple Macintosh computers with the use of a Snow Leopard operating system. Using these platforms, you can rapidly create, update, retain, and redesign websites, products, and services in ways that were previously only possible with HTML coding and visual design tools. Therefore, no matter what your expertise level is, or whether you are a developer designer, product owner, or webmaster, you will be able to benefit from the increased efficiency, productivity, and profitability of online business ventures thanks to web content management and experience platforms. 

Conclusion.

When you combine your knowledge of web technologies with a comprehensive experience platform, you can realize the ultimate in business development and internet marketing strategies.

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