Best CMS for a website

1. How to find the best CMS?

First of all, let's remind you that creating a website with a CMS is an excellent solution if you don't know the technical web languages.

Indeed, most of the CMS offer you the possibility to create a website from scratch without necessarily using a technical language to code the back-office of the website (the administration space) and the front-office (the website design).

However, for some CMS, this will not exempt you from having recourse to the expertise of a person qualified in web development.

And for good reason, the installation and configuration of the website and its features are still technical actions.

Among the best CMS for a website, you will often see the following ones neck and neck:

• WordPress
• Wix
• Wagtail (our best)

We will go straight to the point: they all have their qualities and their flaws! The important thing is to choose the tool that fits your needs.

👉 Read about it: CMS comparison: the complete guide to create your website

But then, how to choose the right CMS and which is the best among all?

2. Criteria for choosing the best CMS

The best CMS, as we said above, is the one that meets your needs, your budget and your time issues.

Here is a list of questions to ask yourself to help you understand your needs.

The knowledge required and your technical skills

Do you want to do everything alone or do you want to be accompanied by professionals?

• In the first case, the best CMS could be Wordpress which remains the most accessible to all beginners.
• If you don't mind being accompanied, then all CMS are available to you

Type of site

1. How do you define your future website?
2. Is it a classic website?
3. Should it have a blog part?
4. Do you need to connect it to a third party application?

The functionalities expected on the website

Have you identified any particular needs for your website? What are they?

Take the time to think about the number of pages you will have, but also the features you imagine (an integrated card on your contact page, a contact form, a payment module to get your product in advance...)

To note, some fairly common features for a CMS are the following:

• Editorial content management
• Integration of metadata to promote good SEO.
• Control of user access to the back office.
• Possibility to upgrade the website by adding modules
• Update of the tool and additional modules.
• Translation of the content into several languages

👉 Discover our article: What are the essential features for a CMS?

Your financial and time constraints

Do you have a maximum budget and a deadline for the creation of your website?

Obviously, if your project must be put online quickly, the best CMS will be the one for which you find a professional able to help you and available to accompany you!

Also, the budgetary constraints can play on your choice.

👉 To know more : How much does a website cost ?

3. The case of Wagtail

On our side, we think that the best CMS for a website is a tool that is easy to use by its users and especially technically solid.

Our favorite CMS is the Wagtail CMS. We explain to you why.👇🏻

What is CMS Wagtail?

Wagtail is the CMS that we consider the most reliable and the most technically interesting to create a website!

Initially Wagtail was a suite of modules of the Django framework.

The first version of this CMS dates back to 2014 and a stable version was released in 2015. This makes Wagtail a rather young CMS but promised, without a doubt, to a bright future!

Wagtail can be integrated with a CRM or a marketing automation tool. Its uses are multiple.

Among the basic features, we find :

• simplified editorial management
• image integration with optimizations
• creation of forms
• the possibility to connect an API

Wagtail makes it very easy to extend a website according to the needs of the website.

The Wagtail back-office

Beyond its many technical qualities, what is important to us is to use a tool that is easy to use!

All the websites we create with Wagtail are designed to be used by non-technical users. Their most common need is to have the hand on the content of the pages:

• modify, add a text on an existing page
• create a new page and format it
• write a blog post, put it in draft form and publish it after proofreading

Moreover, the photo and image embedding library stands out for its simplicity and design. Adding new media to a website is done quickly.

It is therefore essential that the back office is simple and intuitive. With Wagtail, this is obviously the case.

Indeed, all Wagtail websites are organized in a hierarchical way: it means that a page can contain several pages. This is why the home page will contain all the other pages of the website. If you have a "Products" page, all the different product categories will be contained under this "Products" page. For example "Pants" "Coats"...

This feature is finally very intuitive because it is precisely logical and very useful to create blog posts with distinct categories for example!

Take care of your SEO with Wagtail

Finally, to ensure that your website is well optimized for search engines, Wagtail allows you to create a "Natural referencing" section on all content pages.

The user can add metadata without using an external module. In addition, other useful options for SEO are available natively: link structure and URLS, generate a sitemap.

Remember that for a good natural referencing, the important thing is to have an HTML code accessible to search engines. This is commonplace with Wagtail.

Technical performance

From a technical point of view, Wagtail distinguishes itself from all other CMS by the possibility to easily improve the performance of the pages.

Websites developed under Wagtail can have very short loading times thanks to existing modules.

For developers, powerful features are very useful tools to build a website. For example database migrations, a versioning system or unit tests.

Customizations

Wagtail embarks with it a community of developers who can easily adapt a website according to your needs.

In conclusion, for us, Wagtail is without a doubt the best CMS to create a website!

1. Although still scarcely used today, it is undoubtedly an advantage for your website. First of all for its performance and for its infinite possibilities of evolution.
2. And because offering you an accessible tool is our priority, we salute its back-office which is elegant, minimalist and easy to use.

4. Conclusion

The Wagtail CMS is an excellent marketing tool for your company. For SEO campaigns, it is formidable against its opponents such as Wordpress or Wix.

Its strong customization allows to make the difference on technical optimizations.

The tool is also easy to use and ergonomic.