Posts Tagged ‘content management systems’
How portable is your website? How some companies lie about website portability.
Some lawyer marketing companies use their own proprietary content management systems (CMSs) to create attorney websites (FindLaw and Foster Web Marketing both use proprietary content management systems.) If this is the case, even if your company tells you the site is portable – it is not. Yes, you can get a copy of your site and physically put it somewhere else – but it may not run properly and the copy of your website will likely have all new page URLs.
When you leave the services of a company that uses their own proprietary CMS your website is usually converted to a new format with new file extensions or it will not work outside their system. This means your old URLs will no longer work. For example, if you website URLs currently end in .asp and your website is returned to you in .html, anyone visiting the old www.page.asp will now reach a dead page.
