Content Management System (CMS). Keeping your website up-to-date used to mean contacting your web designer to do it but now you can have websites made so that you can up date each page yourself.

CMS websites give you editorial control over the web pages throughout your website. Most work by offering you a private secure login into an admin area of your website. Then you select from a menu which web page you want to edit and up pops a program similar to a word processing program. You make the changes or additions, click save, and hey presto your web page is updated.

Compared to a new website built with CMS, existing websites can at times take longer to develop CMS. So if you are commissioning a new website you may want to consider this option now rather than later. It will save you time and money in the long term.

There are two types of CMS you can buy. Internet based ones and software based ones. Internet based ones reside on your actual website. Software based ones are programmes installed on a computer which are used to connect to the website.

An Internet based CMS usually costs around £300-£1500 on top of any web design fees and depending on what you can do within the CMS the price could rise. Speak to your web designer about updating your own website.

In general with a CMS you would be able to edit and add text, add or replace images, add links, upload documents and link them, add and remove pages and much more.