When not to use a content managment system

Is it a large scale e-commerce project?

While there are robust and feature-rich shopping cart and e-commerce engines for your CMS system, if things like SKU configuration, inventory management, shipping calculators, and coupon systems are more important to you than being able to put a product anywhere on any page, you'll be best served by adopting an emfluence e-commerce solution with CMS capabilities, rather than am emfluence CMS with e-commerce capabilities.

Is it a website with CMS needs, or is it an application or web system?

Content management systems are amazingly efficient and affordable ways to manage the content on your website. And they provide a robust framework for adding interactive functionality. But a CMS is not the best choice to build a secure banking application or a million user social networking website. Both of those solutions are better served by building the system from the ground up.

Is your site a giant flash file?

For your website to be great, it must change over time. You may want to add a survey, guestbook, photo gallery, etc. If your site is completely flash, then only flash-capable developers will work on your site. And if only developers are going to work on the site, there’s no return on investment for the CMS.

Is the entire site a blog?

If you’re publishing a blog, and that’s all your site is ever going to be, a CMS is overkill. There are many tools specifically designed for blog workflow. However, if blogging is part your whole website, and if you think there might be the need to migrate content in and out of the blog to the rest of the website, an emfluence CMS is a great choice.