Are you ‘up to date’ if you are still using a static webpage today? I wouldn’t say that there is a global answer to that question and everybody’s got to find out for himself.

Usually I’m a big fan of automatism and technology and its advantages – but is it really worth it? Let’s have a closer look at the topic:

A Content Management System (CMS) is a program, running on your webserver, generating the html output for the visitors browser, which is actually a good thing, if things are changing a lot.

But a CMS is just a piece of software that needs updates and patches too, disregarding new features and stuff as there might be undiscovered security holes which might turn out to be a rather serious problem. I don’t want to question any cms here. I just want to make you think if you really need one.

I’ll give you an example: My domain stargazer.at hosts a portal page, offering links to my services, my blog, whatever. As my services don’t change that often, there is no need for dynamical created content as things just don’t change. If I think back, the last update on the portal page happened four month ago. Since then it wasn’t touched anymore. Regarding security, this would be quite fatal. In the other hand, my blog here gets much more love and changes much more often. That’s why I am using WordPress here and plain html on my portal page.