A content management system, or CMS, is the ultimate interactive, multi-user website solution.

• A CMS integrates interactive components like forums, chat rooms, blogs, newsletters, photo albums, and shopping carts with standard web pages to give all a unified look at feel.
• A CMS integrates all of those components into a single user registration system so that users don’t have to register separately to use each component.
• A CMS integrates all of those components into a single administrative interface that can be administered with no knowledge of HTML.
• A CMS allows you to control who can view each page and component individually, enabling you to have pages/components that can only be accessed by registered users, moderators, or staff.
• A CMS allows you to delegate management and publishing responsibilities to staff or volunteers by allowing you to assign administrative access to each page/component to a different person if you like.

What is OurChurch.Com's Custom CMS Express? With our exclusive Custom CMS Express, you select the design and features you want, and OurChurch.Com will develop a customized, interactive website to your specifications in as little as five business days and for a fraction of the cost of a traditional custom site.

What features are offered with the Custom CMS Express? The Custom CMS Express is so flexible that you can have as few or as many features as you want. Choose from:

• Calendar
• Shopping cart
• Photo Album
• Web Log (Blog)
• Event Registration & Payment
• Audio and Video Gallery
• MP3 Player and/or Podcast
• Classified Ads or Help/Needs Board
• Prayer Requests
• Forums and/or Chat
• Staff Directory
• Local Weather
• Verse a Day and/or Bible Search

Tell me more about managing access for users, volunteers, and staff. Our Custom CMS Express gives you the ability to decide who can view each specific page and feature on your website as well as who can modify and administer each. That means you can do any of the following:

• Give an employee access to update just the content of their department.
• Create members-only pages that only paying subscribers can view (perfect for magazine or newsletter sites).
• Give volunteers the ability to moderate forums without giving them access to change any of the website (great for youth ministry sites).
• Create private pages, calendars, and forums for internal use that only staff can view (great for any organization).
• Set up a web log ("blog") for the CEO, pastor, or principal that allows them to easily add to their blogs directly without having to go through the webmaster.

How can the Custom CMS Express be so powerful and still be affordable? We spent months researching, installing and testing the best, most affordable content management systems (CMS) on the planet. Then we leaned on our decade of experience doing website design and hosting to determine the features and options most important to specific types of organizations. We combined these features into one powerful, easy-to-use, flexible package. Finally, we developed an extremely efficient process for installing, configuring, and customizing the CMS so we can provide a unique appearance and functionality to each organization according to their specifications in a fraction of the time it takes to design a traditional custom website.

I've never managed a website before, and all the features sound complicated to use. Don't worry. Not only is our Custom CMS Express very intuitive, but we also include several hours of phone training to teach you how to manage your new website. Our training is very hands on. Not only do we explain the steps to add images, sound, and other content to your site but you'll gain the experience of adding and changing all those content items yourself.

You can learn more by visiting the various Custom CMS Express niches we are developing, such as Church Custom CMS Express. Now you can discover how easy it is to receive your own custom site from OurChurch.Com.