Website versus MyCMS
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Flexibility is low On a website, pages are displayed according to how the webmaster chooses to set up his or her navigation through the site. In this case, all changes from the smallest to the most radical – such as news sections, address changes or picture gallery or even people and management team – will have to be referred back to the IT people or to those who designed it. |
Flexibility is high The primary difference between MyCMS and a website is that a MyCMS gives you the freedom to change and update content – text, photos, videos, and skins – user interface look and feel – without any basic change in the underlying structure and design. |
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Interactivity is low A static website will allow scope for a dialogue box or email interface only if it has been planned for, at he time of the design of the website. |
Interactivity is high A MyCMS enables a high degree of interaction with visitors to your site, in the form of comments and mails. You can choose to filter human visitors to prevent spamming or phishing or allow or disallow comments on individual sections. In terms of developing an audience, that interactivity is another huge advantage you will have in MyCMS as compared with a static website. |
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No Versioning Provisions No provision for keeping outdated or archived content. |
Versioning In a MyCMS based portal – provision for keeping various versions of data - which may be retrieved as per requirement. |
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Workflow Security of data, content can be controlled or modified by authorized personnel and approved at one centralized level only. |
Workflow Security of data, contact to be vetted at pre-determined levels & only then approved. |
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Auto-Publishing and Expiration No such provision, whether for publishing or for expiration. |
Auto-Publishing and Expiration Save content for publishing as well as for expiration and schedule them both – in advance as per your convenience. |
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Template Driven Design In a website, we need to go back to the design structure each time the entire look & feel (user interface) needs to alter. |
Structure Driven Design The entire look & feel (user interface) can be changed from a single point, without disturbing the functionality. |
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No Access Control A static website does not permit this. |
Setting Access Controls With MyCMS, you may have dedicated sections for specific audiences. |
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Limited Content Caching Optimized utilization of server: is generic in HTML, only up to a certain level. |
Flexible Content Caching In MyCMS, you have the flexibility of increasing or decreasing the cache level – so that refreshed content is made visible. |
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Complex editing process What you see is What you get – Simple word-processing tools enable easy content modification. |
WYSIWYG editor What you see is What you get – Simple word-processing tools enable easy content modification. |
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Lacks Webform Support Need to make pre-determined selection by means of complex coding– which takes far longer time. |
Webform Support You don’t need to do complex coding, selection is simply by means of drag and drop. |
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Search engine capabilities need to be activated In case of HTML based sites – you need coding to be done for implementing search capabilities. |
Inbuilt search engine In case of MyCMS, search is pre-built and can function from Day one. |
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No Provision for Indexing This feature helps improve search results – and is not present in HTML formats. |
Automated Indexing Helps improve search results. |
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Sitemap Planning Has to be developed in case of HTML based sites. |
Automated Sitemap In case of MyCMS, it is pre-built and is modifiable according to content update. |
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Platform Support for UGC – User Generated Content Unless planned for – in the site structure, the website cannot support wikis, forums, RSS feeds, blogs etc – into its interfaces. |
Platform Support A Single platform can support wikis, forums, blogs, etc – which become integrated to the front end – user interface. |
