A website builder is software that enables someone with no computer programming knowledge and no website design skills to be able to create a website with a look and content tailored just for that person. The heart of any website builder is a content management system, or CMS. As a software engineer, I know about the technical details of developing content management systems. As the author of numerous programming books, including several books in the “For Dummies” series, I know about describing technical information to non-technical people. In this article I’ll skip the programming aspects of a CMS and instead provide you with some basic, generalized information about content management systems.

A website can be created without a content management system (CMS). In fact, most small websites don’t use a CMS. A website developer defines a web page by typing the content – the words that are to appear on the web page – in a text file. The developer applies tags – special sequences of characters – throughout the file to provide the desired formatting. The formatting can be effects such as adding bold or italics to text. This non-CMS approach to creating a website is fine and dandy for a very small website that is meant to be static. A static website is one that doesn’t change. Once the look and content of the site is established, the site is basically “done.” If at a later date the website owner does want changes to the site, making those changes can be time-consuming. The website owner needs to manually edit the files that make up the website pages, typing in additions and corrections, and making sure that any changes don’t negatively affect the layout, or look, of the site.

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It’s attractive. There are several companies offering cheap services full with amazing post-futuristic techno-gizmo features. But does it helps in saving much money?

Answer is no, not at all as the maximum saving would be in some dollars only. If one is running a business site, saving $5, $10 or even $15 per month is not considered a big saving. There is not a single company whose survival is dependant upon 15 dollars but if the wrong web host is chosen by mistake then surely it can destroy the business.

Given below are 3 main reasons to ignore price issue while selecting web host: –

1. Usability. Confession time: Besides other issues usability holds an important place while selecting a new web host. Especially for a beginner it is important to have at least good control panel. There are example where one in the beginning opted for cheap web hosting and there after faced the problem of operating the control panel and often found him/her self traveling in circles trying to enter it.

Thus if one consider this factor of usability and just know little bit of CGI can easily manage his/her emails and can edit html files right on the server. What more is required for a beginner who was earlier not even able to find files on the previous hosting server?

2. Service. Second factor to consider is service. There are cases where in the beginning users were quite happy with their cheap web host as were even getting all the responses via email on time. Problem occurred when some guy with a chip on his shoulder filed a phony Spam complaint. Now the response was suddenly missing from the host when complaint was made. Infact no one was interested in speaking over phone. The remedy came when the user’s ISP responded to the same phony complaint immediately, sharing with user a copy and giving a chance to deal with it. Thus it is again recommendable to pay more but one must look for this feature.

3. Reliability. One must also look for the good uptime and should also check for reliability. There are many problems that occur when one ignores this factor like a form not functioning thereby resulting in lost sales. More worse is that Google comes crawling just when site is down and search engines don’t like sending people to unreliable sites. Thus it can be concluded easily that paying little more is better than paying a lot more in lost sales and increased stress. One should keep in mind that his/her whole business is dependant upon website and so one must consider all the factors not just price while selecting a new web host.