It is important to note that almost every website is made with using HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) coding language. The question is, was it coded from scratch, or is the web page using a CMS to piece the page together more easily?
You see, with a CMS, you can often use pre-built templates to launch web pages more quickly. You can then customize those templates to make them your own. This is obviously a lot faster than coding something from scratch, and is especially useful if you have no coding knowledge.
But besides that, there are some significant differences between HTML-only websites and CMS-powered websites.
1. Website management
If you decide to create a website that only has one or two pages that will rarely need updating, then using HTML might be ideal.
However, for more businesses, a broader, more dynamic website is needed. A CMS solution is a better option if you’re creating a large website with multiple pages, or if you plan to make changes or additions to your website down the line. That’s because a CMS will make it easier to do things like edit existing pages, publish new pages, add an online store, create web forms, and so forth.
2. Time to market
One notable reason why many businesses tend to opt for a CMS platform is that it accelerates the production of a website or websites. Most CMS platforms come with a host of pre-built themes. But the main setback to using these pre-built themes is that your website won’t stand out or come across as unique. So you would need some knowledge of HTML or CSS to customize the design.
For HTML-only websites, you need to design, code and setup your website from scratch. And in terms of cost, setting up an HTML-only site can get expensive, especially if you’re going to hire outside help to program your website.
3. Customization
Besides overhauling the design of a theme on a CMS, making changes to a static page (or any other type of page), whether it is changing a photo or adjusting the text, is pretty much painless, thanks to its frontend user interface. Whereas, on an HTML website, design changes are more difficult. You have to change all the pages one by one manually, and you also have to edit the site’s CSS to make the necessary adjustments.
4. Multi-user support
If you tend to create a large website with multiple services, features, and a blog, then a CMS is perfect since most CMS solutions give you multi-user support. With a CMS, user accounts can easily be created, and you can assign a role (i.e. admin, contributor etc.) to each user. It is particularly useful to have this feature if you’re regularly updating product pages and publish blog articles on your site.
5. Previews and testing
The beauty of having a CMS is that you can preview your website with the click of a button, so you can make any changes that you see fit. This is much harder when you’re building an HTML-only website.
In many cases, you would have to copy and paste your HTML coding onto a plain text file, save it, close it and then open it with your browser so you can preview your site. This is a bit long-winded, and if you do spot an error, it is much harder for you to correct as you will have to comb through your coding to seek out the anomaly that is causing the issue.
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