Website Content Management Systems

pageBuzz is not at all the "Typical Website Content Management System".

Of course, when I tell people we have a system where people can build website they say, " OH, you have a CMS".

I guess by the definition of the term CMS we do, but ours is quite different than what webmasters or developers expect from a CMS.

The way websites have been built has not changed over the last 20 years. The tools, browser capabilities have become better but the basic structure of computers is essentially the same as it was back in 1970 and website today have the same format structurally as they did in 1990.

Computers have basic directories whether it is a $100,000 web server or a $100 laptop. The way files are manged on your computer are essentially the same as they are managed on a website.

But on your own computer, when you install software, you don;t have to think about where it is putting all the files. You open the programs and if has all the files for you.

That is how pageBuzz works, you don't have to ask where files are located or how the software is organizing them. All you have to know, is which buttons to click and what you want to do with your pages.

Typical CMS platforms like Joomla, Drupal and others offer a much different approach allowing you to manage files at a more technical level.

The problem is, that type of file management is not understood by most people because they depend on software to do that for them.

So using system like Joomla are not easy because they need to understand where files reside, what files have to be linked to what pages and different file type.

Lets take for example the typical system and adding a slideshow to a page.

• Edit the html of the page it will be on

• Modify the javascript files to meet local path requirements

• Modify the javascript code to the settings, speed and sizes

• Upload the images to an image directory

• Upload the javascript to the scripts directory

• Make sure the files in the main page have the correct paths

• Once it is all in place upload the html for the main page

This gets particularly complicates when external style sheets and images are required for the slideshow format. Now, for developers, not sweat, it is a walk in the park. But for Joe the plumber, there is just no way he has the time or desire to learn this all to add a basic slideshow to his website.

And as a result business owners have been overly dependent on webmasters to make changes, updates and manage websites overall.

That was until system like pageBuzz came along.

To build the same slideshow on pageBuzz here are the steps.

• Name the slideshow

• Drag the images from the gallery over to the position you want them to appear

• Choose, the size and speed from the menu

• Save the slide show

• Add the slideshow to any page using any of the editors.

As you see, we take very different approaches to the same task. We use drag and drop and let the software figure out how to modify the code and create the finished product while other systems only give you tools to manage the raw text and image files.

Now webmasters clearly don't like our process because anyone can do it. Why pay a webmaster $200 to make a slideshow when you can do it in 10 minutes yourself?

So pageBuzz has almost become an enemy of webmasters and a friend of business owners.

Consequently, we don't have thousands of webmasters going out talking about how great we are as opposed to systems like Joomla or Drupal. So people assume that those are the standards and all others are like them and offer the same type of file management.

But the pageBuzz system is not a file management system, it is a website building system much like frontpage or dreamweaver except that files are saved on the website rather than on local computers.

This is the new business model of every software developer from Microsoft to The Cyber Web, we all want cloud based systems which are faster, easier to update and easier to use.

Of course I won't compare the functionality of Adobe Dreamweaver to pageBuzz because our tools were built to be understood by a completely different market.

And yet, our customers can do more than what a Dreamweaver designer can do with very little effort. After all, Dreamweaver does not let you build a shopping cart or set up a dynamic photo gallery. Dreamweaver does not let you create calendars with tools online to manage them. Dreamweaver does not let you edit images online in real time.

While ultimately tools like Adobe Dreamweaver in the right hands can do much more with designs than pageBuzz, they are just one tool in building a website and you still need programing abilities and a real understanding of what to do with files when you complete them to make them into a live website.

pageBuzz on the other hand is a powerful tool in anyones hands.

The pageBuzz system lets anyone build extensive shopping carts and manage all the looks, styles and designs from tools right on the website.

Introducing The Cloud

This innovation changed how people manage websites. It allows people to use any device from a tablet to a cell phone to edit pages, access online sales and even process orders.

Today, people are on the go and don't want tools that are complicated and bulky and require them to use the same computer in the same location. So having everything in the cloud is just more practical.

We were offering cloud based systems before anyone ever starting hearing about the cloud and continue with those tools today.

Now, cloud based systems like pageBuzz are not only more common, they are the standard for building websites. With such popularity now all of the major companies are switching to website builders online from their old style FTP interfaces.

We knew that made sense back in 2004 when we started this cloud based website hosting platform. It just took the other companies a few years of seeing our successs to get on board.

Not For Webmasters

pageBuzz was never designed for webmasters and with more and more webmasters turning their noses up at online site builders the tools grow more increasingly less webmaster friendly because they refuse to use it anyway.

The system was designed for non tech savvy users, for the average business owner.joe the plumber and alike.

It was created so that website management would not be so complicated.

If you want a new page, you should be able to click a button and add a page, it is that simple.

Asking the average person to create a page on their computer, add it to the correct directory and add the images to the correct directory, edit the html to the paths are correct and then add a link to the navigation menu, well, it is just too much.

So when people call pageBuzz a CMS we have to disagree. It is a website building and management platform.

A CMS is quite literally a Content Mangement System and has nothing to do with building websites.

pageBuzz on the other hand, has nothing to do with managing content and files and everything to do with managing websites and pages, ecommerce and other programs.

System like Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal require you to install programs, they simply give an interface to see what is on the server. While pageBuzz is all of the programs that some expensive webmaster would add to Joomla or Wordpress.

The difference is, we get $20 and they get $20,000 and ours does 10 times more than what they sell you. Additionally, you will never be able to manage what they have created because it is based on very technical tools while ours was designs to be simple, like phone apps.

Click here do this, simple tools that people expect. That is the pageBuzz way!