Sue started building websites using a hypertext markup language (HTML) in 1994 and began developing Custom Content Management Systems (CMS) in the late nineties to allow her clients to add/edit/update content on their website including:
- Men’s Shift — 1st Online Shopping Mall in Canada Certified Secure by RBC
- Durham College — CMS for Continuous Learning Online Catalogue
- Feel Good Natural — CMS + Shopping Cart that synced with his POS
- Township of Scugog — CMS + Voting System
WordPress is the Best CMS Today
When WordPress launched, Sue and her team immediately started using it and recommending it to all her clients — hosted WordPress, not WordPress.com. Today WordPress powers 66% of websites today, is easy to use, and as such is the standard but there are 1000s of other CMS solutions including:
- Blogger
- Drupal
- Google Sites
- Hubspot
- Joomla
- Squarespace
- Shopify
- SiteBuilder
- Strikingly
- Tumbler
- Typepad
- WebsiteBuilder
- Weebly
- WordPress.org (self-hosted) — Sue recommends
- WordPress.com (free-hosting)
- Wix
Frequently Asked Questions about CMS
How do I find out what CMS a website is using?
There are many websites that offer CMS detection now including:
What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
Although WordPress.com manages your WordPress hosting, security, and maintenance for free, customization and plugins are limited. WordPress.org is self-hosted, requiring you to find your own hosting provider and manage security and maintenance but offers complete customization freedom and plugin installation.
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