A CMS based website can be used as the basis for any type of website that you'd like from a simple brochure style site up to the most complicated data driven ecommerce site. There are a number of excellent CMS software packages that are used as a base and then there are numerous addon packages that can tailor the CMS software for a particular use, such as an online store or a car showroom.

The big benefit of a CMS based site for the site owner is that they can be in complete control over the content of the site and can change it all directly themselves without the need to employ a third party to do that work. The content can be all sorts of information such as text, photos, music, videos, documents etc.

There are many different Content Management Systems to choose from to use in your web site but we limit ourselves to those that use PHP as the programming language and MySQL for the database. Some of the most popular of those are Joomla, Wordpress, Magento and Drupal.