1. Multiple site support

Clients or web companies which manage a big amount of websites, should consider this as an option. Modifying multiple websites with the same login can save you a lot of time.

2. Multiple language support

You need to think twice before choosing a CMS, if it supports multiple language. You may think you businees does not currently need multiple language, but your target audience could change, and it is bether to prepare yourself for that.

3. CMS Editors

I ran into a lot of types of editors using different types of opens sources CMS’s  like Wordpress, Joomla, Magento or Drupal. Feature I consider a Editor should have:

a. Code clean-up. When writing articles, clients often use copy-paste action from Microsoft Word or any other program. An Editor which does not do code clean up will mess up your W3C Code  Validation.

b. Editors need to be very easy customizable. It is important you can easily add or delete features from the editors menu, according to your clients needs.

c. Image insert: make sure that by inserting an image, you will have also the possibility to insert alt attributes.

4. Assets Management

Be sure the CMS can easily manage image and media files. It would be great you can easily create image galleries.

Attachements for articles is also a nice feature to have. Users should have the possibility of attaching PDF, Word, Excel files to their articles.

6. Optimization for Search Engines

A good CMS should provide: url rewriting, page title management, insertion of alt attributes to images, description for attached documents, in order to deliver a google friendly website.

7. Menu management

Very important feature for menu management is that the CMS allows you to create tree menus and you can easily add articles to menus.

8. User interaction

Today interacting with you users is very important, so it would be nice that you will be able easily to create forms, or allowing users to comment your articles.

9. Rolls and permissions

You can get into the situation when a website it’s administrated by more than one user, or you might want to restrict users acces for certain features. In order to that your CMS should support permission. Some basic user management should allow you to create: Super Administrators, Editors, Publishers or Registered users type.

You may also want to read to orriginal article by Paul Boag.

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