CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Media Made Fresh helps clients select, design, and manage a content management system (CMS) for their unique website. A CMS solution provides site owners with:
- A Customizable, Robust Scalable Solution
- Design Creativity and Freedom
- Management of Your Site That Is Flexible and Intuitive

What Exactly is a CMS?
A CMS is a computer application made to support the creation and modification of digital content. One of the best advantages of a CMS is your ability to author, collaborate, and administer parts of your website without being an expert in website design or management. Because every business is unique, Media Made Fresh’s recommendations for your use of the CMS would vary. The structure of your site may call for information articles, images, video, integrated design elements, and more. With the right CMS and our team working with you, you’ll have a functional, beautiful, and easy to manage website.
Whether your business has a highly technical webmaster or you will be managing your own website, Media Made Fresh would make a recommendation based on your needs.

WordPress
PROS
– Fast to set up sites (with a template)
– Open source with wide use online
– Use with ecommerce websites of 3 products or less
– Large community support with regular updates
– Great for informational sites, professional pages, and blogs
CONS
– Doesn’t accommodate large media files well
– Plugins easily break with updates
– Not useful for regular or large e-commerce sites, Magento integration is an option but functionality may be limited
– Must update the site to keep it secure in the long run
– Great for informational sites, professional pages, and blogs
– Not good for fully custom sites with complex features like Facebook integration

MAGENTO
PROS
– Works with a number of payment systems and numerous shipping vendors
– Open source for ecommerce users
– Has a large number of features with the default system
– Excellent search engine optimization (SEO) capabilities
– Supports multiple languages and offers localization
CONS
– Customizing product and checkout pages may not always be possible, features like drop downs for product selection may not be possible
– Bulky and tends to be quite resource consuming
– Only the standard feature is free but more robust features have a yearly licensing fee, which ends up costing the customer more

SHOPIFY
PROS
– Is a flexible platform that offers a bunch of applications that fit into the interface of the website
– Great for ecommerce sites that need management, payment gateways, and hosting
– Reliability means your site isn’t susceptible to lag time and down time
CONS
– Monthly cost can add up if you end up adding multiple plugins or applications to the functioning of your website
– Uses its own coding language that not all developers know or understand
– Not great for clients looking for content heavy website solutions

DRUPAL
PROS
– Good for simple, information sites and corporate sites
– Fast to set up
– A large community of developers supporting and innovating on the platform
– Supports multiple languages and offers localization
– Sites can be built for any functionality with many modules and extensions
CONS
– Not ideal for ecommerce websites, for ecommerce you need module integration but all client’s needs must be assessed first
– Customizing forms is difficult, many users are required to stick to the default look
– Information in forms doesn’t store in the administrator panel so it is more cumbersome
– For beginners, it is not the most intuitive content management system
Which CMS Should You Use?
The recommendation of Media Made Fresh depends on the expected functionality of your website.
Always Remember:
These systems were developed by third-parties. This means we have less ability to customize your site to function outside of the settings.
Maintenance may be time-consuming. Adjustments and troubleshooting may take a great deal of time just because of continuous updates and changes being made to these third-pparty systems.
Plug-ins can break or change rapidly. If you rely on plugins, you may wake up one day with a broken website. Media Made Fresh can customize the platform in innovative ways and build custom functions from the bottom up.
A custom website from Media Made Fresh solves all of your problems. We don’t limit you in terms of customization, we are able to accommodate clients with the need for a simple site with little frills all the way to clients with the need for a customized online solution that needs to scale.
We aren’t limited by customization.
We know how to operate various CMS systems.
We keep maintenance simple and easy for you to manage.
We make it easy for you to scale your brand.
We prefer custom code and don’t rely on plug-ins or third-party solutions.