Content Management System or more popularly known as CMS, makes your life easy. When you own a website, there may be times you want to change the content, add additional features, change the theme or upload a video file. The challenge is to create webpages that look the same as the ones on your home page and also trying to keep the "look and feel" of the site uniform, so your visitor has a good user experience.

Enter the content management system. While there are many CMS out there, some are priced exorbitantly and then there are the Open Source ones like Joomla and Drupal. Here are some of the things you can do with the CMS:

1. You can create an image gallery

2. You can add a blog

3. You can share files with ease

4. You can upload a video and other multimedia files with ease

5. Creation and importing of documents and large files are easier

6. In a large organization, you can restrict and give access to any number of users

7. Ability to save revisions (something like the "Undo" feature in MSWord)

8. Change themes (some of them)

9. Ability to manage content through a workflow process – One person can create content, another can review the content and a third can publish the content.

10. Creation of polls with ease (especially newspaper, information and service industry)

11. All your content can be stored in a relational database that you can back up or restore easily

12. You can create discussion boards and forums

13. You can email newsletters to your customers and generate more sales via old customers

14. Have one consistent theme for all webpages, thereby creating the first step towards branding

15. Addition, creation or deletion of webpages with ease

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