The Cms Approach Of Templates

By Author: Josh Story
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Content Management Systems have brought a new meaning to the word template. When it comes to web design, the traditional meaning of this word suggested unimportance or a generic style. The old meaning of this word referred to a pre-built website system that web designers could use to quickly come up with a website.

However, things have now changed thanks to Content Management Systems. Template now is a framework for a specific section of your site. That allows webmasters to manage their site and add new pages just by inserting the raw content instead of brand new page for each new post. When assigning it to a certain section, you are telling the site to use a certain layout to present that information.

These sites work more like memory banks of information, whether it be a blog, about us page or anything else. Your web site is acting like an operator of sorts. When someone clicks a link to a section of a site, they are asking for specific information and the site presents that information based on the templates that were created in its development.

This is totally different from traditional websites, when ...
... the webmasters had to pre-make each page of the website. Today's CMS templates are only used to tell your web site how to present and layout information. Unlike the term used to suggest, these templates are custom built for your site and are vital in maintaining a consistent look and feel throughout the user experience.

As we move into new ages of web design, things of course will be changing. I feel like this is one term that is going to pop up in project development discussions for a long time so it seems best that we leave the faux pas of this term behind and say hello to the new day.

About the Author:

Josh Story is the webmaster of Tgwebmedia, which is a web development Tampa firm that provides web design Tampa, as well as search engine optimization and secure hosting for its clients.