Maura McDonnell

Freelance Web Designer, Carlow – Photoshop, Dreamweaver, xHTML, CSS, CMS, Blog, Wordpress, Drupal, Shopify

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Choosing the right CMS platform for your website

Posted on | June 25, 2009 | Comments Off

The Question: “I’m starting a new site and have no idea what I should do for software. Do I need to use a content management system, and if so, how do I make sure it’s SEO-friendly?
An article “Choosing the Right CMS Platform for Your Website (from an SEO perspective),  on the SEOmoz website provides a really useful break down of whether  you might need a CMS (Content Management System) to update your website or not.  It discusses some of the open source content management software that can be used to develop a content management system for building, developing a website and then allowing the web site owner to update the website via the Content Management System.

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PRH Ireland Website

PRH Ireland Website

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