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A content management system (CMS) allows you to create, manage and publish content on a website without needing extensive technical knowledge.
Examples of content management systems include Wordpress, NationBuilder, SquareSpace, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
What is a computer?
A computer is a hardware device for processing, storing, and displaying information. Examples of computers include laptop computers and desktop computers.
What is a computer program?
Computers use programs (also known as software or systems) of ordered sequences of instructions to perform jobs.
Computer programs can have:
Computer programs can be either:
What is a web browser?
An application program that allows you to access, search, view and edit information on the World Wide Web, when you have access to the Internet, is called a web browser (like Mozilla's Firefox Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Edge).
The World Wide Web (WWW), often called the Web, is a system of interconnected information that you can access using the Internet. Whilst, the Internet is a means of connecting a computer to any other computer anywhere in the world.
Information on the World Wide Web can be accessed through a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). This is the web address of the information, like https://www.example.com./, that tells your web browser where to go. Key part's of a URL's structure includes:
What is a website?
A website is a collection of information that is displayed as content on webpages. You can access a website searching its URL through a web browser, which is an application program on a computer device. Website information can be composed through:
What is a content management system?
A content management system (CMS) allows you to create, manage and publish content on a website without needing extensive technical knowledge.
The reality of today is that people are in an affordability, time and mental health crisis. In our actions to challenge injustice and build collective power, it needs to be easy for people to understand and join our movement.
You need a content management system (CMS) that allows you to create, manage and publish content on a website without needing extensive technical knowledge to ensure that people have an accessible way to understand and join your movement, and you can easily onboard people in contributing to it.
What is a content management system?
A content management system (CMS) allows you to create, manage and publish content on a website without needing extensive technical knowledge.
This is important as 94.9% of the population on this continent use the internet, with 89% using a search engine website with 95% of those using Google's Search to find information1. That should include what you do and how people can join you.
What content does a content management management system include?
At their core content management systems will display text and media (images, videos, files) content. However, the way that the content is displayed, through the use of design elements, depends on the content management system.
Examples of design elements that can be used to grab people's attention include sliders that slide between media content, accordions that allow information to be collapsed and expanded, and cards that display excerpts of information of a page's information.
Why does it matter how content is displayed?
In 2025, the state of Charities annual report2 outlined that:
With the volume of organisations and groups available, to make yours the one that people want to contribute to, the information about what you do and why you do it needs to be displayed in a way that people understand and want to get involved.
You need a content management system (CMS) that allows you to create, manage and publish content on a website without needing extensive technical knowledge to ensure that people have an accessible way to understand and join your movement, and you can easily onboard people in contributing to it.
There are a number of different content management solutions available for your organisation. If you want the short answer, contact us to support you.
What content management system is applicable?
Content management systems were originally built for a wide range of purposes, including the displaying of interlinked content, fundraising or ecommerce. This means you need to evaluate your needs surrounding:
When your requirements surrounding what is suitable is complete, you'll be able to compare which content management systems are best able to fulfil them.
What content management system is suitable?
Maintenance considerations are the number one item when deciding which content management system is applicable for you. This includes evaluating, after the initial set up, who is going to:
After determining the who, and thinking about a succession plan for that person, its important to consider the technical skills of this person and choosing a system that is most applicable for them to fulfil that maintenance to the content management system.
If the flashiest system never gets maintained, then its as good as a simple one.
What content management system is affordable?
Content management systems have different pricing structures that surround:
After determining these requirements of the content management system, its easier to compare which content management system is most affordable in terms of both cost, time and patience.