Photo galleries for your WordPress site

One of the many benefits of working with WordPress is the amazing number of quality plugins that are absolutely free of charge. If you run a company, where you like to show pictures of your products, these particular plugins will be of interest to you. Each plugin creates the photo gallery a bit differently — jquery slideshows, flash slideshows, automatically from your flickr set — which you choose is purely a matter of preference.
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Choosing a Content Management System

What on Earth is a CMS?

CMS or Content Management Systems have been around for quite awhile now, however when I recommend that a client uses a CMS to power their site I am usually rewarded with a blank stare. To break it down, a CMS is a web application that uses a database to store the sites content. This way the site’s content is separate from the design (as it should be) and is easily changed. All CMS have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows the end user to edit, add or delete the content that is stored in the database. Since the content in the database is displayed to the users on the front end, the end user is able to change the site’s content.
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