Need a good looking website but you don’t have time to learn how to create your own one, and you’re on a tight budget? Don’t know too much about on-page SEO, except that its important? While this used to be a real problem, we’ve got a great solution for you.

We have developed easyCMSlite, the free, easy content management system. easyCMSlite is, as its name implies, a lite content management system. That is, lite, yet powerful. We’ve tried hard to take away the complexities of so many of the CMS systems available. I personally have tried using some of them, and I couldn’t fathom them. I am a web / software developer, so I can’t imagine what it must be like for non technical users.

easyCMSlite avoids that. For instance, to add a new page, you don’t need to be in some admin menu where you add text to a list. In easyCMSlite, you are in the actual web page, and when you want to add a page you see it as it would appear to your users. This is termed ‘What you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG).

Another important consideration is SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). This is the important task of optimising your website so that the search engines can find you faster and hopfully rank you higher. Most CMS do have SEO capabilities, but you need to download and install plugins for that, then you need to configure and enable them. For instance, many CMS’s allow you to install a plugin to convert the URL’s they produce to one which is search engine friendly (and human friendly). So, using a plugin, you might be able to change your url from www.yoursite.com?cat=12&subcat=6&pid=34 to www.yoursite.com/category/sometitle.php. With easyCMSlite, this is automatic. If you have a main menu item called ‘Products’ and a product page you are linking to called ‘widget’, then your URL will be www.yoursite.com/products/widget.php. This is automatic and requires no plugins or configuration.

easyCMSlite has an easy to use text editor, very similar to word and excel. In fact, you should be able to copy and paste most content from word or excel into this editor, making  it even easier to manage your site.

To give easyCMSlite.com a try, go to easyCMSlite.com, the free, easy content management system, or go to www.demoserver.co.za to test the CMS in a live test environment. The username is [email protected] and the password is demo.

Tags: cms, content management system, creating websites

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